“I Beg Your Pardon. Is This a Private Raft?”

The Beauty and the Bolshevist

By ALICE DUER MILLER

 Author of “The Charm School” “Ladies must Live” “Come out of the Kitchen” etc. 

 Illustrated 

 Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 

 Printed in the United States of America Published October, 1920 

ILLUSTRATIONS

 “I beg your pardon. Is this a private raft?” 

 “Mr. Moreton, the Newport boat leaves at five-thirty” 

 “I’ll be there in five minutes, in a little blue car” 

 “Suppose you find you do hate being poor?” 

 

CONTENTS

 

Chapter I

 The editor of that much-abused New York daily, Liberty, pushed back his editorial typewriter and opened one letter in the pile which the office-boy—no respecter of persons—had just laid upon the desk while whistling a piercing tune between his teeth. 

 The letter said: 

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 DEAR BEN,—I hate to think what your feelings will be on learning that I am engaged to be married to a daughter of the capitalistic class. Try to overcome your prejudices, however, and judge Eugenia as an individual 

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