Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Checked Love Affair, and the Cortelyou Feud
Which bore as slight a resemblance to its original as the chicken does to the egg, and which I should never have connected, one with the other, had I not seen the interme diate stages of growth. Yet this very metaphor tells my own view, and when, now and again, I hear some one deny the actuality of anything mothered upon her, I am always tempted to start hunt ing for the' original, before it had been hatched into a duck ing hen, or beaten into an omelette.
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