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Title: Just Around the Corner
Romance en casserole

Author: Fannie Hurst

Release Date: July 8, 2010 [EBook #33118]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "IT'S ALL RIGHT, DEAREST; THIS IS YOUR SURPRISE"
[See page 28]

JUST AROUND THE CORNER

ROMANCE _en casserole_

BY

FANNIE HURST

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

MCMXIV

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1914

CONTENTS

PAGE

POWER AND HORSE-POWER 1

OTHER PEOPLE'S SHOES 31

THE OTHER CHEEK 72

MARKED DOWN 110

BREAKERS AHEAD 153

THE GOOD PROVIDER 199

SUPERMAN 247

THE PARADISE TRAIL 300

THE SQUALL 329

ILLUSTRATIONS

"IT'S ALL RIGHT, DEAREST; THIS IS YOUR SURPRISE" _Frontispiece_

SHE HELD UP A HAND AS LIGHT AS A LEAF, AND HE TOOK
IT IN A WIDE, GENTLE CLASP THAT ENVELOPED IT _Facing p._ 290

"HELLO!" HE WHISPERED, EXTENDING BOTH HANDS AND
SMILING AT HER UNTIL ALL HIS TEETH SHOWED " 328

"I WENT OVER TO LOO'S, AND WE STAYED UP AND TALKED
SO LATE--I DIDN'T KNOW--" " 360

JUST AROUND THE CORNER

POWER AND HORSE-POWER

In the Knockerbeck Hotel there are various parlors; Pompeian rooms lined
in marble and pillared in chaste fluted columns; Louis Quinze corners,
gold-leafed and pink-brocaded, principally furnished with a
spindly-legged Vernis-Martin cabinet and a large French clock in the
form of a celestial sphere surmounted by a gold cupid.

There are high-ceilinged rendezvous rooms, with six arm and two straight
chairs chased after the manner of Gouthiere, and