THE MAGNETIC GIRL
BYRICHARD MARSH
AUTHOR OF
“The Beetle,” “Curios: Some Strange Adventures of Two Bachelors,”
“Ada Vernham, Actress,” “Mrs Musgrave and Her Husband,”
“The Twickenham Peerage,” etc.
London
John Long
13 and 14 Norris Street, Haymarket
1903
COPYRIGHT.
Copyright by John Long 1903
All Rights Reserved
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER III. THE UNFINISHED SENTENCE
CHAPTER IV. THE EPISODE OF THE BAKER’S BOY
CHAPTER V. THE FURTHER EPISODES OF THE SHOP-WALKER AND THE ARTIST INHAIR
CHAPTER VI. MISS NORAH FEELS ODD
CHAPTER VII. MISS NORAH RECEIVES TWO GENTLEMEN
CHAPTER VIII. MEN ARE DECEIVERS EVER
CHAPTER XI. THE TURNING OF THE WORM
CHAPTER XII. MISS NORAH’S SOLILOQUY
CHAPTER XIV. A QUARTER TO SEVEN
CHAPTER XV. TRAMPLING UPON FIVE
CHAPTER XVI. THE DINNER WHICH FAILED
CHAPTER XVIII. BEFORE THE CURTAIN
CHAPTER XIX. AN UNREHEARSED EFFECT
CHAPTER XXI. THE SINGULAR WOOING
CHAPTER XXII. I BEHAVE LIKE A GOOSE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FINISHED SENTENCE
CHAPTER XXV. THE BROWN MAN’S APOLOGY
CHAPTER XXVI. ON THE SINGULAR EFFECTS OF SUNLIGHT
THE MAGNETIC GIRL
CHAPTER I.
A MAN
It was the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to anyone. Ireally hardly know how to begin to tell about it. I was doing my hairbefore the looking-glass in my bedroom—and I could not help noticingthat it was rather a curious colour, though my eyes were nearlyblinded by tears of rage, and something else. The rage was becauseLilian and Audrey and Eveleen and Doris, and mother too, had beensaying all the nasty things they could to me. The something else wasbecause Benjamin Morgan had asked me to be his wife.
There—it’s out! My first proposal of marriage—my very, very first!and that i