Angellotti, Marion Polk, 1894-1979 / 2008-06-26 00:00:00
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THE FIREFLY OF FRANCE
by Marion Polk Angellotti
TO
THE MEMORY OF
THE HEROIC GUYNEMER
"THE ACE OF THE ACES"
PREPARER'S NOTE
This text was prepared from a 1918 edition,
published by The Century Co., New York.
THE FIREFLY OF FRANCE
CHAPTER I
ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS
The restaurant of the Hotel St. Ives seems, as I look back on it, an odd
spot to have served as stage wings for a melodrama, pure and simple. Yet
a melodrama did begin there. No other word fits the case. The inns
of the Middle Ages, which, I believe, reeked with trap-doors and
cutthroats, pistols and poisoned daggers, offered nothing weirder than
my experience, with its first scene set beneath this roof. The food
there is superperfect, every luxury surrounds you, millionaires and
traveling princes are your fellow-guests. Still, sooner than pass
another night there, I would sleep airily in Central Park, and if I had
a friend seeking New York quarters, I would guide him toward some other
place.
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