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The Lion and The Mouse

CHAPTER IV
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Had not President Roosevelt, in a recent sensational speech, declared that it might be necessary for the State to curb the colossal fortunes of America, and was not her hero, John Burkett Ryder, the richest of them all?
Any way they looked at it, the success of the book was most gratifying.
While she was an attractive, aristocratic-looking girl, Shirley Rossmore had no serious claims to academic beauty.

Her features were irregular, and the firm and rather thin mouth lines disturbed the harmony indispensable to plastic beauty.

Yet there was in her face something far more appealing--soul and character.

The face of the merely beautiful woman expresses nothing, promises nothing.

It presents absolutely no key to the soul within, and often there is no soul within to have a key to.


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