Quick ServiceAn artist, Joss Weatherby, falls in love with Sally Fairmile, who is engaged to Lord Holbeton. Wnen imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country house near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her-- her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation, Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holbeton, and, most of all, Mrs. Chavender's own one-time fiance, 'Ham King' J.B. Duff, whose rotten product spoils her breakfast. - Publisher. |
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Page 193
... halted abruptly and stood staring , a dark flush spread- ing slowly over his face . That telephone call , with its airy allusions to pre- vious engagements , had left Chibnall in a frenzy of doubt and suspicion . A bystander who had ...
... halted abruptly and stood staring , a dark flush spread- ing slowly over his face . That telephone call , with its airy allusions to pre- vious engagements , had left Chibnall in a frenzy of doubt and suspicion . A bystander who had ...
Page 250
... halted . " Oh , hullo . " It seemed to Lord Holbeton that the blighter looked a bit dejected , and he was not mistaken . His walk had brought Joss no solution of the problems confronting him . It had , indeed , merely deepened and ...
... halted . " Oh , hullo . " It seemed to Lord Holbeton that the blighter looked a bit dejected , and he was not mistaken . His walk had brought Joss no solution of the problems confronting him . It had , indeed , merely deepened and ...
Page 308
... halted and was swaying gently , as if he had been poleaxed and could not make up his mind which way to fall . Her words seemed to come to him from far away . " I don't know if you get what I mean . Here's what I was thinking . Maybe it ...
... halted and was swaying gently , as if he had been poleaxed and could not make up his mind which way to fall . Her words seemed to come to him from far away . " I don't know if you get what I mean . Here's what I was thinking . Maybe it ...
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