The Rose-Garden Husband

The Rose-Garden Husband

NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1914, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1915, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHED, JANUARY 27, 1915 SECOND PRINTING, FEBRUARY 6, 1915 THIRD PRINTING, MARCH 12, 1915 FOURTH PRINTING, APRIL 23, 1915 FIFTH PRINTING, JUNE 10, 1915 SIXTH PRINTING, AUGUST 6, 1915 SEVENTH PRINTING, OCTOBER 21, 1915 EIGHTH PRINTING, MAY 1, 1916 NINTH PRINTING, OCTOBER 30, 1916 The Liberry Teacher lifted her eyes from a half-made catalogue-card, eyed the relentlessly slow clock and checked a long wriggle of purest, frankest weariness. Then she gave a furtive glance around to see if the children had noticed she was off guard; for if they had she knew the whole crowd might take more liberties than they ought to, and have to be spoken to by the janitor. He could do a great deal with them, because he understood their attitude to life, but that wasn't good for the Liberry Teacher's record. It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last day of the week, when the rest of the world is having its relaxing Saturday off and coming[Pg 8] to gloat over you as it acquires its Sunday-reading best seller, if you work in a library you begin just at noon to wish devoutly that you'd taken up scrubbing-by-the-day, or hack-driving, or porch-climbing oranything on earth that gave you a weekly half-holiday! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 26635
Author: Widdemer, Margaret
Release Date: Sep 16, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English