Excerpt from Come Out of the Kitchen: A Romance
The window of Randolph Reed's office was almost completely covered by magnificent gold block lettering. This to any one who had time and ability to read it - and the former was more common in the community than the latter - conveyed the information that Reed dealt in every kind of real estate, from country palaces to city flats. The last item was put in more for the sake of symmetry than accuracy, for the small southern town contained nothing approaching an apartment house.
From behind this pattern of gold, Reed peered eagerly one autumn...

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Mrs. Ussher was having a small house party in the country over New Year's Day. This is equivalent to saying that the half dozen most fashionable people in New York were out of town. Certain human beings are admitted to have a genius for discrimination in such matters as objects of art, pigs or stocks. Mrs. Ussher had this same instinct in regard to fashion, especially where fashions in people were concerned. She turned toward hidden social availability very much as the douser's hazel wand turns toward the hidden spring. When she crossed the room to speak to some woman after dinner, whatever...

Excerpt from The Happiest Time of Their Lives
...and then he added in a lets satisfied tone: "Bat friendship is so uncertain. You don't make any announcement to your friends or vows to each other, unless you're at an age when you cut your initials in the bark of a tree. That's what I'd like to do."
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Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses impacted on the suffrage issue, while her verse-play The White Cliffs encouraged US entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays.

An interrupted burglary just before Christmas leads to an unexpected act of kindness... ...as the snow rages outside, that kindness, in turn, brings unexpected rewards. A delightful Christmas tale written by poet Alice Duer Miller.

The Burglar and the Blizzard was written in the year 1914 by Alice Duer Miller. This book is one of the most popular novels of Alice Duer Miller, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally

Morson saw it clearly when he came in after luncheon to get the coffee cups, although a complete and decorous silence greeted his entrance. He saw it in the way in which his young employer was standing, as erect as an Indian, looking slantingly down her cheek at her companion. Miss Bennett was sitting on the sofa with her feet in their high-heeled satin slippers crossed, and she was slipping the rings nervously up and down her fine, thin fingers. She was a small, well-made woman, to whom prettiness had come with her gray hair. The perfection of all her appointments, which might once have been...