[In Luck at Last by Walter Besant]@TWC D-Link bookIn Luck at Last CHAPTER IV 15/36
And think of the glory. Posters with your name in letters a foot and a half long--'The People's Favorite.' Why, don't they applaud you till their hands drop off ?" She melted a little. "Applaud! As if that did any good! And me in tights!" "As for the tights," Joe replied with dignity, "the only person whom you need consult on that subject is your husband; and since I do not object, I should like to see the man who does.
Show me that man, Lotty, and I'll straighten him out for you.
You have my perfect approval, my dear.
I honor you for the tights." "My husband's approval!" She repeated his words again in a manner which had been on other occasions most irritating to him.
But to-night he refused to be offended. "Of course," he went on, "as soon as I get a berth on another ship I shall take you off the boards.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|