The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ladies Must Live , by Alice Duer MillerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Ladies Must LiveAuthor: Alice Duer MillerRelease Date: June 30, 2004 [eBook #12789] [Date last updated: October 4, 2004]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LADIES MUST LIVE ***E-text prepared by Mary Meehan and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamLADIES MUST LIVEbyALICE DUER MILLERAuthor of "Come Out of the Kitchen," etc.1917CHAPTER IMrs. Ussher was having a small house party in the country over New Year's Day. This is equivalent to saying that thehalf dozen most fashionable people in New York were out of town.Certain human beings are admitted to have a genius for discrimination in such matters as objects of art, pigs orstocks. Mrs. Ussher had this same instinct in regard to fashion, especially where fashions in people were concerned.She turned toward hidden social availability very much as the douser's hazel wand turns toward the hidden spring.When she crossed the room to speak to some woman after dinner, whatever that woman's social position mightformerly have been, you could be sure that at present she was on the upward wing. When Mrs. Ussher discoveredextraordinary qualities of mind and ...
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Title: Ladies Must Live Author: Alice Duer Miller Release Date: June 30, 2004 [eBook #12789] [Date last updated: October 4, 2004] Language: English