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Molly Make-Believe
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends him what she calls a ‘ridiculous circular’ which she states is very apropos of his sentimental passion for letters. In a sudden fit of mischief, malice and rheumatism, Carl decides to respond to the circular which results in bringing about the necessary distraction in a flurry of letters that do ease Carl’s boredom and pain but also bring him something else that he never quite expected.
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends him what she calls a ‘ridiculous circular’ which she states is very apropos of his sentimental passion for letters. In a sudden fit of mischief, malice and rheumatism, Carl decides to respond to the circular which results in bringing about the necessary distraction in a flurry of letters that do ease Carl’s boredom and pain but also bring him something else that he never quite expected.
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At nine o'clock he was still awake. At ten o'clock he was still awake. At eleven o'clock he was still awake. At twelve o'clock he was still awake.... At one o'clock he was almost crazy. By quarter past one, as though fairly hypnotized, his eyes began to rivet themselves on the little bright spot in the rug where the "serial-letter" lay gleaming whitely in a beam of electric light from the street. Finally, in one supreme, childish impulse of petulant curiosity, he scrambled shiveringly out of his blankets with many "O—h's" and "O-u-c-h-'s," recaptured the letter, and took it growlingly back to his warm bed.[38]
Worn out quite as much with the grinding monotony of his rheumatic pains as with their actual acuteness, the. . . Read More
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"I seem to have found out suddenly that the mere fact of loving a woman does not necessarily prove her that much coveted 'journey's end.'"
4.5 stars
Carl Stanton is enduring an interminable stretch of lonely winter hours, cooped up in his Boston apartment with rheumatism, while his lovely fiancee Corn
I have an antique 1910 edition of this little gem. The prose is flowery but the concept is very romantic. It's interesting how they treated rheumatism in those days, with six weeks of bedrest! The Walter Tittle ( a well known American artist, per the National Art Gallery at the Smithsonian) are wond
Fluffy, kinda silly turn-of-the-century romance. It was fun to read, but not too profound. What got me to read it was the interesting premise: Man who is very sick is disappointed because his fiancee is going on vacation and seems to think he can just fend for himself, so she won't hardly even write
Good grief. You've heard of actors "chewing up dialogue"? Here's an example of a writer chewing up her words:
"But sleep did not come. Oh, no! Nothing new came at all except that particularly wretched, itching type of insomnia which seems to rip away from one's body the whole kind, protecting skin an