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...rriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using Morgan for his own deceptions? Or is she right to listen with her heart? www.DesertBreezePublishing.com...

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...ed. “The full contract.” Listen With Your Heart 9 Chapter 1 Chicago, October 8, 1871, five years later Daniel Connolly smiled ... ... hopeless causes.” She shook her head at him and went in search of her stockings. “I’ve never been one of those foolish girls who swoon over a... ... Morgan had the papers spread all over the parlor floor. The Great Chicago Fire recreated in words and illustrations and maps lay scattered... ... Life of Actress Helene Bennett Connolly is listed among the victims of the Chicago fire. She was reported killed when a building in which she was ... ... Then distracted by the blue veins that traced a winding river between her whitening knuckles, she became lost in fascination as she stared at them... ...ipped a button off his vest and dropped it on the quilt, removed one of his stockings and tossed it on the rug. At the last, he tossed a coverlet ov... ...t” greeted her knock. While she waited, she made a last minute check of her white linen blouse and gray serge skirt. Demurely covered from neck to ... ... The smudge pot wedged in the upper right corner of the roof sent clouds of white smoke cascading down on her. Morgan tripped the latch, and the fro... ...ce chemise that was her only garment, except for her embroidered white silk stockings and a wrapper so gossamer sheer a whisper might melt it. Her e...

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...drawn with power. Bartlett is an accomplished writer.” PAUL ENGLE in The Chicago Tribune: “...articulate, believable ... charms with an expert know... ...up the long, long path to the outcrop, beyond the temple. Atthis and tall white marble col- umns, with their busy apricot-breasted swallows, have ass... ...f roses, shrubbery and cypress, has the ocean below: moonlit, she stands white-robed close to marble statuary: a nude Hermes, a bust of Aphrodit... ...mehow out of focus; yet it seems I hear the flute and lyre of the ceramic players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor li... ... The columns of the temple of Zeus, in Athens, stand white against the moonlit sky. A woman walks among columnar cypress, he... ...luck? When you write a play, isn’t it luck, lucky weather, luck with your players, luck with your attendance, the right kind of royalty attending at... ...t my own defeat, a shrew SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 381 beside a shrew, players nodding at my marital bewilderment, I, the drunkard drunk on illus... ... his wife. “Dear Mouse,” Alleyn wrote his. “Dear Jug, let my orange-tawny stockings be dyed a good black, against my coming home in the winter,” All... ...Commander-in-Chief. My qualification: integrity. I can not sleep. In Chicago, one windy night, I attended my first symphony concert. I was in t...

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...n Pg 1283 Some Examples of Token Icons of Decapitation Pg 1290 Dynamics of Whitewashing Pg 1300 The Sacredness of the Immaculate Consumer Pg 13... ...te Caste System Pg 1325 The Cunning Insanity of Human Immaculation Pg 1335 Whitewashing Pg 1343 Universal signs of Good and Evil Pg 1355 Santa... ...ction of cancer into our bodies. Why do chefs, the world over, put black or white pepper on top of almost everything whether it is cooked or not? ... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...t an earlier government agent called Elliot Ness who fought organized crime in Chicago in the 20’s and 30’s. Because there were no brave ’G’ men to ... ...vestigate and prosecute Al Capone. He managed to whitewash the entire corrupt Chicago City Government and the Mayor of Chicago by keeping all the na... ... dammed rivers and lakes, factories… the pits of hell, the slaughterhouses of Chicago… the millions and millions of domesticated enslaved cows, pigs,... ...t is what people do. They sock their extra money into socks called stocks or stockings… hoping there will be more of it when they pull it out of the... ...mallest spot mars their blouse or shirt, if there is the tiniest run in their stockings, if their hair is not done just-so, if they cannot find the ...

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... remember when we read Through the Looking Glass in the eighth grade? The White Queen said to Alice ‗believing in impossible things is simply a matte... ...ong as I can make a profit. Whether it is a bank robbery, shop lifting or white collar crime, it is self- centered with the present time as the prima... ...nt John Kennedy was entertaining 49 Nobel Prize winners for dinner at the White House in 1962. He opened with the observation that ‗This is undoubte... ... have Judaism, Sikhism, Bahai, Shinto and others that may seem like major players but each has less than 1% of the world‘s population as adherents. M... ...a row it was absolutely certain that the next blackjack would come to the players, but only if they bet $10,000 on the next hand. Would you do it bas... ...s the tether of past events. So while the message of history remains, the players change. The situations change. The rationalizations for the action... ... seeking petitioner. ―When a citizen of the US wants to move from Chicago to Los Angeles—it is allowed. Should that person be immediately el... ...apple to Adam, a bare breasted Delilah cutting Sampson‘s hair, a Rahab in stockings and garters. It was a sensation. And all who saw it marveled wit...

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...Huin sighed. He took off his shoes in the bus. He stroked his feet, in short white sports socks, across the vinyl of the back of the chair before him ... ...on my head" and other lugubrious folk melodies. He listened. He cried on her white blanket as if she had banished him forever. He remembered that his ... ...s genius in interpretive skills. A sense of pride exuded over his face in a white light but the flush of expression was extremely ephemeral. It came ... ...n can be continually repeated and he continually repeats it. Bound in black stockings, the legs go to the front desk where some hands scan titles of ... ...f smiles and chatter. Her chatter was a repetition of their ideas about the players and the plays. Since she hadn't really observed a thing and the... ...s toddler days as American military barrooms, had the crime level of LA and Chicago combined. She didn't really have a reason for her inability to ac... ...e Grand Palace. Then, his wistful stare was directed toward untainted soccer players engaged, as boys, in simple pleasures which he would never be abl...

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...of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly gal- loped acros... ...uplifters at the University Settlement in New York, and he had a beautiful white strong neck. He led a gig- gling class through the prisons, the chari... ... of them.” She darted on. Stewart was not interesting. He hadn’t a shapely white 8 Main Street neck, and he had never lived among celebrated reform- ... ...a prairie town, but in its garden- sheltered streets and aisles of elms is white and green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Min... ...h which led 11 Sinclair Lewis her to study professional library-work in a Chicago school. Her imagination carved and colored the new plan. She saw he... ...gain. She wrote to him once a week—for one month. VI A year Carol spent in Chicago. Her study of library-cata- loguing, recording, books of reference,... ...r up to the top. There was a swell traveling man in there—probably been to Chicago, lots of times. Oh, the dandiest people to know here! There was a l... ...e— You ought to be more careful about shock- ing folks. Talking about gold stockings, and about show- ing your ankles to schoolteachers and all!” More... ...e Axel himself could find anything. A part of the assortment of children’s stockings was under a blanket on a shelf, a part in a tin ginger-snap box, ...

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...he foot of yonder dark precipice there, where the waves are green, and the white surge lifts and falls, and that little thread of water trembles down.... ...e. “Look at that sea that has shone and quiv- ered there for ever! See the white spume rush into darkness under that great cliff. And this blue vault,... ...started violently and uttered an exclamation. The eyes were void spaces of white. He looked again and saw that they were open and with the pupils roll... ... The tailor was assisting Graham into a dark purple combi- nation garment, stockings, vest, and pants in one, as the thick- set man came back from the... ... clamouring to see you. And abroad they want to see you. Paris, New Y ork, Chicago, Denver, Capri—thousands of cities are up and in a tumult, undecide... ...id had been of singular service, and it was now invariably invoked by such players of chess and games of manual dexterity as were still to be found. I...

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...him, and they crouched together on a shadowy hillside. She was so slim, so white, so eager! She cried that he was gay and valiant, that she would wait... ...ll cut, well made, and completely undistinguished. It was a standard suit. White piping on the V of the vest added a flavor of law and learning. His s... ...hining walls rose against April sky to a simple cor- nice like a streak of white fire. Integrity was in the tower, and decision. It bore its strength ... ...ed golf, he often smoked cigarettes instead of cigars, and when he went to Chicago he took a room with a private bath. “The whole thing is,” he explai... ...s place.” “Yuh, but say, any of you fellows ever stay at the Rippleton, in Chicago? I don’t want to knock—I believe in boosting wherever you can—but s... ...erfectly willing to pay a reasonable price. 125 Sinclair Lewis I got into Chicago late the other night, and the Rippleton’s near the station—I’d neve... ...and charming face was sharpened by bobbed hair; her skirts were short, her stockings were rolled, and, as she flew after Ted, above the caressing silk... ...pstairs; but certainly these eager bodies were not stiff with steel. Their stockings were of lustrous silk, their slippers costly and unnatural, their... ...rseted, for private misery she wore a filthy blue dress- ing-gown and torn stockings thrust into streaky pink satin mules. Her face was sunken. She se...

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...Machiavelli’s time have come near to one another; it is no simple story of white passions struggling against the red that I have to tell. The state-ma... ...beauty of women. Thousands of men there are to-day almost mastered by this white passion of statecraft, and in nearly every one who reads and thinks y... ... geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big fossil bones, and above that hangs the por... ...positively bristled with cannon, and many a Sunday afternoon have I played Chicago (with the fear of God in my heart) under an infidel pretence that i... ...an infidel pretence that it was a new sort of ark rather elaborately done. Chicago, I must explain, was based upon my father’s de- scription of the pi... ...f the table at which I sat, head on hand reading, and she would be darning stockings or socks or the like. We achieved an effect of rather stuffy comf... ...rd of and the Fabian Society we did not under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarchists, Justice and Social Democratic Federation (as it was the... ...trast of him with the drilled Swiss and Germans about us. Convict coloured stockings and vast hobnail boots finished him below, and all his luggage wa... .... Next them are a group of anglicised Germans and highly specialised chess-players, and then two of the oddest- looking persons—bulging with documents...

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...iverpool, New York, Lyons, Glasgow, Venice, Marseilles, Hamburg, Calcutta, Chicago, and Leghorn have all become popu- lous, and are or have been great... ...elphia, perhaps, justi- fies the partiality. The same thing may be said of Chicago, of Buffalo, and of Baltimore. But the same thing cannot be said in... ...ance, it was no better than a large toy-shop. When I saw an ancient, dusty white hat, with some peculiar append- age to it which was unintelligible, i... ...ge to it which was unintelligible, it was no more to me than any other old white hat. But had I been a man of science, what a tale it might have told!... ...m the building into the space of the portico. The President’s house—or the White House as it is now called all the world over—is a handsome mansion fi... ...e matter had never been attained at New York or Philadelphia, at Boston or Chicago. The Northern provincial world of the States had declared to itself... ...itizen to me. But in truth the play was commenced a little too soon. Those players have played out; but another set will yet have their innings, and m... ...goes on pleasantly enough in Baltimore, and ladies meet together, knitting stockings and sewing shirts for the Southern soldiers, while the gentlemen ...

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...e’ll have no trunks; only a carpet-bag, with two shirts and three pairs of stockings for me, and the same for you. We’ll buy our clothes on the way. B... ...undred, two thousand pounds. Passepartout, usually so rubicund, was fairly white with suspense. At two thousand pounds the Indian yielded. “What a pri... ...ng tresses, divided in two parts, encircle the har- monious contour of her white and delicate cheeks, brilliant in their glow and freshness. Her ebony... ..., in the black pupils of her great clear eyes. Her teeth, fine, equal, and white, glitter between her smiling lips like dewdrops in a passion- flower’... ...ad taken the train at Elko, was tall and dark, with black moustache, black stockings, a black silk hat, a black waistcoat, black trousers, a white cra... ...ars. Passepartout took his seat without telling what had passed. The whist-players were quite absorbed in their game. The locomotive whistled vigorous... ...roctor. “Now or never!” “Very good. You are going to New York?” “No.” “T o Chicago?” “No.” “T o Omaha?” “What difference is it to you? Do you know Plu... ...Fogg in a few hours to Omaha. Thence the trains eastward run frequently to Chicago and New York. It was not impossible that the lost time might yet be... ...ds its terminus at this im- portant Nebraska town. Omaha is connected with Chicago by the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, which runs di- rectly east...

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...oor in a spick-and-span new blue cloth uniform, decorated with shining brass buttons, and with bands of gold lace around his cap and wristbands; and h... ...lf on the bottom marble step, abreast the portier, who stood on the other end of the same steps; six or eight waiters, gloved, bareheaded, and wearing... ...ilding seems very airily situated. It has the appearance of being on a shelf half-way up the wooded mountainside; and as it is remote and isolated, an... ...ra, but not fond of sitting in the presence of an audience; therefore, it has some- times occurred, in Munich, that when an opera has been concluded a... ... off their paint and finery, a command has come to them to get their paint and finery on again. Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, a... ...nd it which had a white anchor embroidered on it in front; nobby short-tailed coat, pantaloons, vest, all trim and neat and up with the fashion; red-s... ...ith vigorous strides, and with the intent and determined look of men who were walking for a wager. These wore loose knee-breeches, long Mark Twain 19... ...ng the average of deaths in each 1,000 population for a year. Munich was always present with her 33 deaths in each 1,000 of her population (yearly ave... ...it will be granted that our towns and villages are healthier than our cities. Here is the average of the only American cities reported in the German t...

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...straightening out accounts, and copying visiting lists, and finishing golf-stockings, and matching ribbons, and seeing that the dogs get their sulphur... ...rming a “lady”? The fresh- ness he had marvelled at was like the unnatural whiteness of 21 Wharton flowers forced in the dark. As he looked back at t... ...Paris shone in morning beauty under a sky that was all broad wet washes of white and blue; but Darrow again noticed that her visual sensitiveness was ... ... the sliding down of her dress to the waist and then to the knees, and the whiteness of her feet as she slipped across the floor to bed... He stood up... ...siness of trying to sell a lot of imitation pearls to Mrs. Homer Pond, the Chicago woman the Duke’s engaged to? It seems the jeweller says Gisele brou... ...cian, in the same rapt fixity of attention with which she had followed the players at the Francais. The accident of her having fallen into the same at...

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...lks expected him to become a “go-getter,” And for a time he did. Moving to Chicago in his early twenties, he worked in an advertising agency where he ... ...ge in his life. At the age of 36, he left behind his business and moved to Chicago, becoming one of the rebellious writ- ers and cultural bohemians in... ... and cultural bohemians in the group that has since come to be called the “Chicago Renais- sance.” Anderson soon adopted the posture of a free, libera... ... been put in more gen-eral terms in Anderson’s only successful novel, Poor White: All men lead their lives behind a wall of misun- derstanding they ha... ...RO O O O OTESQUE TESQUE TESQUE TESQUE TESQUE THE WRITER, AN old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The win- dows of t... ...e carpenter got upon that subject he cried. He, like the old writer, had a white mustache, and when he cried he puckered up his lips and the mustache ... ...his whole body quivering with excite- ment. In spite of themselves all the players watched him closely. The opposing pitcher be- came confused. “Now! ... ...th a long white beard who went about followed by a dog, a young girl whose stockings were always coming down and hanging over her shoe tops. There mus... ...shoes in his hand he sat looking at a large hole in the heel of one of his stockings. Then looking quickly up he saw George Willard, the only newspape...

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... lone bark buoy’d on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails, She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, o... ...riners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;) Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on... ...summer ripples on Paumanok’s sands, Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town, Observing shows, births, improvements, s... ... at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover’d with white towels swelling the house with their plenty, Shall I postpone my ac... ...adly and savage, Manhattan rising, advancing with menacing front—Cincinnati, Chicago, unchain’d; What was that swell I saw on the ocean? behold what c... ...ts, face to face? What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas? Does it see behind the apparent custodians the... ..., maternity of all the rest, And with it every instrument in multitudes, The players playing, all the world’s musicians, The solemn hymns and masses r... ... woman’s, I sit low in a straw bottom chair and carefully darn my grandson’s stockings. It is I too, the sleepless widow looking out on the winter mid...

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...der results? We determined to go to Portland, in Maine, from thence to the White Mountains in New Hampshire—the American Alps, as they love to call th... ... to be the case with most of them. From Portland we made our way up to the White Moun- tains, which lay on our route to Canada. Now, I would ask any o... ...whether they ever heard, or at any rate whether they know anything, of the White Mountains? As regards myself, I confess that the name had reached my ... ...nada, Quebec has 60,000; Montreal, 85,000; Toronto, 55,000. In the States, Chicago has 120,000; Detroit, 70,000; and Buffalo, 80,000. If the populatio... ...ion of inhabitants, while Montreal has 85,000? Why has that babe in years, Chicago, 120,000, while Toronto has not half the number? I do not say that ... ...that Montreal and Toronto should have gone ahead abreast with New York and Chicago. In such races one must be first, and one last. But I do say that t... ...erica the bitterness against England has amounted almost to a passion. The players—those chroniclers of the time—have had no hits so sure as those whi... ...ker a hugger-mugger with his money. He does not hide up his dollars in old stockings and keep rolls of gold in hidden pots. He does not even invest it...

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...ish and roll-down of the dirt. The river was very low, and on the dazzling white sand be- tween the three centre piers stood squat cribs of railway-sl... ...ed and shrieked up and down the embankments, the piled trucks of brown and white stone banging behind them till the side-boards were unpinned, and wit... ...ters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to direct, under direction, the bevies of... ...ly bin out ten months, but I’m home- sick—I’m just achin’ homesick.” “T ry Chicago, Katie,” said the switching-loco; and the bat- tered old car lumber... ...round, I guess. Anyway, I’ve done my duty. She’s on her way to Kansas, via Chicago; but I’ll lay my next boilerful she’ll be held there to wait consig... ...ires in light dust-coats danced out on two little excited ponies. The four players of the Arch- angels’ team followed, and the sight of their beautifu... ...ound. Their riders were excellent play- ers, but they were a team of crack players instead of a crack team; and that made all the difference in the wo... ...smaller woman would have babbled first, but Janet is five feet nine in her stockings. “We’re rich,” said McPhee. I shook hands all round. “We’re damne... ...self. When he stepped forth in the black jersey, white knickers, and black stockings of the First Fifteen, the new match-ball under his arm, and his o...