From the author: This collection of stories has been labelled "The Veiled Lady" as being the easiest way out of a dilemma; and yet the title may be misleading. While, beyond doubt, there is between these covers a most charming and lovable Houri, to whom the nightingales sing lullabies, there can also be found a surpassingly beautiful Venetian whose love affairs upset a Quarter, a common-sense, motherly nurse whose heart warmed toward her companion in the adjoining berth, a plucky New England gir
...l with the courage of her convictions, and a prim spinster whose only consolation was the boarder who sat opposite.
Volume of stories by Francis Hopkinson Smith, an American author, artist and engineer; a master of after-dinned stories. Originally published in1907.
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