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A Cigarette-Maker's Romance
F. Marion Crawford
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Vjera hesitated, and as she stood still the hand he held trembled nervously.[Pg 56]
"I promise," she said, at last, as though with a great effort. Then, all at once, she covered her eyes and leaned against the door-post. He laid his hand caressingly upon her shoulder.
"Is it so hard to say?" he asked, tenderly.
"Oh, but if it should ever be indeed true!" she moaned. "If it should—if it should!"
"What then? Shall we not be happy together? Will it not be even pleasant to remember these wretched years?"
"But if it should turn out so—oh, how can I ever be a fitting wife for you, how can I learn all that a great lady must think, and do, and say? I shall be unworthy of you—of your new f. . . Read More
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This short novel by an American writer was published in 1890. It is Dickensian in style: it is told in the third person past tense by an omniscient narrator whose authorial voice frequently intrudes; the prose is quite florid and the plot quite melodramatic; and the characters are mostly stereotype
In the city of Munich lies a small tobacconist shop where five people toil making endless fine cigarettes: a Cossack, an ex-coachman, two plain young women and a man who believes he is a down-on-his-luck Russian Count. Every Wednesday he says goodbye to his workmates and awaits men from his home cou