Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: been " Bits Cut out of a Story because they Prevented its Marching." If you have any memory you do not need to be told how that splendid study, so ennobling, so penetrating, of woman at her best, took the town. Tommy woke a famous man, and except Elspeth no one was more pleased than big-hearted, hopeless bleary Pym. " But how the has it all come about 1" he kept roaring. " A woman can be anything that the man who loves her would have her be," says the " Letters," and " Oh," said woman everywhere, " if all men had the same idea of us as Mr. Sandys!" " To meet Mr. T. Sandys." Leaders of society wrote it on their invitation cards. Their daughters a-thirst for a new sensation thrilled at the thought, "Will he talk to us as nobly as he writes! " and oh, how willing he was to do it, especially if their noses were slightly tilted. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER HI SANDYS OK WOMAX M Can you kindly tell me the name of the book I want ? " It is the commonest question asked at the circulating library by dainty ladies just out of the carriage, and the librarian after looking them over can usually tell. In the days we have now to speak of, however, he answered, without looking them over: "Sandys's Letters." "Ah, yes, of course. May I have it, please ? " "I regret to find that it is out." Then the lady looked naughty. "Why don't you have two copies ? " she pouted. "Madam," said the librarian, "we have a thousand." A small and very timid girl of eighteen, with a neat figure that shrank from observation, although it was already aware that it looked best in gray, was there to drink in this music and carried it home in her heart. She was Elspeth, and that dear heart was almost too full at this time; I hesitate whether to tell or to conceal how it even created a disturbance i...