Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 / 2008-07-05 00:00:00

EBOOK STAR-DUST ***


Produced by Suzanne Shell, Charlie Kirschner
and PG Distributed Proofreaders


[Illustration: "HER BLOOD WAS POUNDING AND HER VOICE WAS IN FLIGHT"]

STAR-DUST
A Story of an American Girl
BY FANNIE HURST
1921

Book One
THE VINE
Oh, the little more and how much it is:
And the little less, and what worlds away.
--BROWNING.
[Greek: Zoae]


CHAPTER I
When Lilly Becker eked out with one hand that most indomitable of
pianoforte selections, Rubinstein's "Melody in F," her young mind had a
habit of transcending itself into some such illusory realm as this:
Springtime seen lacily through a phantasmagoria of song. A very floral
sward. Fountains that tossed up coloratura bubbles of sheerest aria and
a sort of Greek frieze of youth attitudinized toward herself.
This frieze was almost invariably composed of Estelle Foote, a
successful rival in a class candidacy for the sponge-and-basin
monitorship; Sydney Prothero, infallible of spitball aim; Miss Lare with
her spectacles very low on her nose and a powdering of chalk dust down
her black alpaca; Flora Kemble with infinitely fewer friendship bangles
on her silver link bracelet; Roy Kemble, kissing her yellow, rather than
yanking her brown, braids.
Read more


Parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20