We Live but Once by Rupert Hughes 1927 Harper and Brothers

We Live but Once
Rupert Hughes
Harper and Brothers 1927
285 pages

The hinges are cracked and the binding is broken but all pages are present and attached. The pages are tanned and foxed. The cover is damp stained on the edges and rubbed. Fair. Hardcover.

Chapter 1:  There was a beautiful noise of laughter at the table back of her. Some man that she could not see went almost into convulsions over something that she could not hear.

The gay pulsations irresistibly tickled the elegant ribs of Miss Valerie Dangerfield and gave reality to the smile she had been sustaining with increasing difficulty. Her chatterbox companion, Lucy Livingston, had been running on and on as merrily as a forgotten faucet and causing as little merriment, until Miss Dangerfield was beginning to crack under the strain.   (#0000857)