The green tabloids / a novel by Mrs. Barré Goldie.

  • Goldie, Barré, Mrs., 1871-1938.
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929??]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The green tabloids / a novel by Mrs. Barré Goldie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for she felt that she could not meet Michael Ruffini. Nobody would have been more astounded than Michael himself had he been told so, for he had scarcely ever noticed the quiet girl who had been left “ without a bob. Rough luck, what ? ” So he had said, and she had blushed right royally, not only because of his remarks about her circumstances, but because he had never meant her to hear what he did say. He did not miss her in the family circle at Wargrave, and that was her bitterest hour. She found it very difficult to go on liking her old schoolfellow Desdemona, for she had a nature which was selfish and loved to have her own way. She had meant to win her cousin Michael, and now her hopes had been scattered to the four quarters of heaven. “ What made old Muriel do a bunk ? ” the latter asked Desdemona, with more interest than anxiety. “ Police ! ” laughed Desdemona, who had never said anything to a policeman in her life. She knew Muriel’s secret and meant to keep it. Of course “ young-Drake-who-plays-the- banjo ” turned up to hunt, and once again the rafters of the old house re-echoed to gay laughter and the tinkling of the negro melodies. Michael liked Alec Drake, as did Desdemona, and they were enchanted to discover that he was escorting his sister to Monte Carlo on the day fixed for their own return to Nice. He was as