Sweethearts Unmet - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI MOTHER-WINGS The Boy's Story WHEN I accepted for Phyllis, I wasn't sure, after all, that she would come. Knowing that she didn't seem to care for Slim Grantham at all and that she never missed a chance of getting in a dig at him whenever his name came up, I thought it more than likely that my fiancee would cry off directly about coming on with me to the party at the Dug-Out, which was more or less what he'd call "his rag." Rather surprised I was, and bucked when Phyllis quite jumped at it. "Come? To see the adored Slim and his Very Latest? Oh, rather," she exclaimed in her brightest way. "Sight I wouldn't miss for worlds, the All-Conquering Slim at the Chariot-Wheels of the Girl Who's Different from the Others. How priceless! Is it a definite engagement, Jack? Does one lug in the Heavy Congratulatory Touch the moment one sees The Young Couple?" "Oh Lord no, I don't think so," said I, hastily. HI don't know that Slim's even asked the girl to marry him yet. But this is the girl that he's going to ask 'allright.'" "And of course she's going to jump at him all right: he takes that for granted." "Well, I suppose he knows whether the girl likes him; a man like Slim doesn't make mistakes there," I stood up for the absent. But Phyllis shook her bobbed black hair at me in the way that means she finds I'm hopelessly obtuse in some ways. She asked quickly, "And the Faultless Slim, is he really, definitely, and irrevocably in love this time?" "M'm," I said, trying to make up my mind about that look on Slim's face and that tone in his voice when he was unloading himself to me in my rooms. "M'm.... I don't know whether a man like that, who's always, dotted about all over the place does ever fall irrevocably' in love with anybody?" "Then why on earth should he wa...

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