Earl Derr Biggers

Name: Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire
Author: Earl Derr Biggers

Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

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“Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire”, published in 1914, is a work by Earl Derr Biggers. It explores elements such as Minot, duchess and Meyrick.

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Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

“ Being a good general, the hostess was early on the scene, marshaling her forces. To her there came Cynthia Meyrick, radiant and lovely and wide-eyed on the eve of her wedding.
"How sweet you look, Cynthia," said the duchess graciously. "But then, you long ago solved the problem of what becomes you."
"I have to look as sweet as I can," replied the girl wearily. "All the rest of my life I shall have to try and live up to the nobility."
She sighed.
"To think," remarked the duchess, busy over a great bowl of flowers, "that to-morrow night this time little Cynthia will be Lady Harrowby. ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

“ When you introduced that brother of Lord Harrowby's this afternoon—that big splendid chap who said America looked better than a title to him—I could have thrown my arms about his neck and kissed him!" She came closer to the girl, and stood looking down at her with infinite tenderness in her washed-out eyes. "Wasn't there—any American boy, my dear?" she asked.
"I—I—hundreds of them," answered Cynthia Meyrick, trying to laugh.
The duchess turned away.
"It's wrong of me to discourage you like that," she said. "Marrying into the peerage is something, after all. ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

“ On a dais hidden by palms the orchestra began to play softly.
"You haven't asked to see my card," said Cynthia Meyrick at Minot's side.
He smiled a wan smile, and wrote his name opposite number five. She drifted away. The music became louder, rising to the bright stars themselves. The dances that had furnished so much bitter conversation at table began to break out. Minot hunted up the balcony and stood gazing miserably down at fairy-land below.
There Miss Meyrick found him when the fifth dance was imminent
"Is it customary for girls to pursue their partners?" she inquired. ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

“ Minot sat, deaf to the delicous lisp of the débutante at his side. What was woman's greatest privilege? Wasn't it——
His forehead grew damp. His knees trembled beneath the table. "Jephson—Thacker, Jephson—Thacker," he said over and over to himself.
After dinner, when the added guests invited by the duchess for the dance crowded the ballroom, Minot encountered Jack Paddock, Mr. Paddock was limp and pitiable.
"Ever apologize to an angry woman?" he asked. "Ever try to expostulate with a storm at sea? ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

“ But—Cynthia—Cynthia——"
Back in the shadow the girl pressed her hands to her burning cheeks.
"A strange love—yours," she said. "A love that blows hot and cold."
"Cynthia—that isn't true—I do love you——"
"Please! Please let us—forget." She stepped into the moonlight, fine, brave, smiling. "Do we—dance?"
"Cynthia!" he cried unhappily. "If you only understood——"
"I think I do. The music has stopped. Harrowby has the next dance—he'd hardly think of looking for me here."
She was gone! Minot stood alone on the balcony. He was dazed, blind, trembling. ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

“ MR. MINOT GOES THROUGH FIRE
THE Duchess of Lismore elected to give her dinner and dance in Miss Meyrick's honor as near to the bright Florida stars as she could. On the top floor of the De la Pax was a private dining-room, only partially enclosed, with a picturesque view of the palm-dotted courtyard below. Adjacent to this was a sun-room with a removable glass roof, and this the duchess had ordered transformed into a ballroom. There in the open the newest society dances should rise to offend the soft southern sky. ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance — XIX. Mr. Minot Goes Through Fire (1914)

“ He plunged into the room. The smoke filled his nostrils and choked him. His eyes burned. He staggered through the smoky dusk into another room. His hands met the brass bars of a bed—then closed over something soft and filmy that lay upon it. He seized the something close, and hurried back into the other room.
A fireman at another window sought to turn a stream of water on him. Water—on that gown! ”

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