The Place of Honeymoons by Harold MacGrath

The Place of Honeymoons
Harold MacGrath
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Copyright 1912
Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller
378 pages

The binding is in acceptable condition, the pages are clean but tanning and have some scattered brown age spots. There is a gift inscription dated 1914 written in front and another name and date 1932 written underneath. The page ends are bug damaged and the illustration pages and surrounding pages are foxed. The cover is scuffed and edge worn and has dings and dents on the edges. Acceptable. Hardcover.

Chapter 1: Courtlandt sat perfectly straight; his ample shoulders did not touch the back of his chair; and his arms were folded tightly across his chest. The characteristic of his attitude was tenseness. The nostrils were well defined, as in one who sets the upper jaw hard upon the nether. His brown eyes-their gaze directed toward the stage whence came the voice of the prima donna-epitomized the tension, expressed the whole as in a word. Just now the voice was pathetically subdued, yet reached every part of the auditorium, kindling the ear with its singularly mellowing sweetness. To Courtlandt it resembled, as no other sound, the note of a muffled Burmese gong, struck in the dim incensed cavern of a temple. (#00002610)