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    A Charmed Life
    A Charmed Life
    A Charmed Life
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    A Charmed Life

    By Richard Davis

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    A Charmed Life
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    Richard Davis

    Richard Davis was born and educated in Melbourne and now lives in Queensland. He was encouraged in his writing by Alan Marshall, Ivan Southall and later, Nobel prize-winning author Patrick White. Richard pursued a successful career in commerce before taking up full-time writing in 1997. Since then his published works have included three internationally acclaimed biographies of musicians: Geoffrey Parsons - Among Friends (ABC Books), Eileen Joyce: A Portrait (Fremantle Press) and Anna Bishop - The Adventures of an Intrepid Prima Donna (Currency Press). The latest in this series is Wotan’s Daughter - The Life of Marjorie Lawrence.

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      War correspondent leaves his fiancee to cover the Spanish American War in Cuba. She worries about him going to face his death, but he claims to be charmed. At the end of war he hurries to catch the first transport home. Three events threaten his life on the way home. In each case he is protected by a specific special gift without his even knowing he was in danger.

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    A Charmed Life - Richard Davis

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Charmed Life, by Richard Harding Davis

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    Title: A Charmed Life

    Author: Richard Harding Davis

    Release Date: May 12, 2006 [EBook #1821]

    Last Updated: December 17, 2012

    Language: English

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    A CHARMED LIFE

    by Richard Harding Davis

    She loved him so, that when he went away to a little war in which his country was interested she could not understand, nor quite forgive.

    As the correspondent of a newspaper, Chesterton had looked on at other wars; when the yellow races met, when the infidel Turk spanked the Christian Greek; and one he had watched from inside a British square, where he was greatly alarmed lest he should be trampled upon by terrified camels. This had happened before he and she had met. After they met, she told him that what chances he had chosen to take before he came into her life fell outside of her jurisdiction. But now that his life belonged to her, this talk of his standing up to be shot at was wicked. It was worse than wicked; it was absurd.

    When the Maine sank in Havana harbor and the word war was appearing hourly in hysterical extras, Miss Armitage explained her position.

    You mustn't think, she said, that I am one of those silly girls who would beg you not to go to war.

    At the moment of speaking her cheek happened to be resting against his, and his arm was about her, so he humbly bent his head and kissed her, and whispered very proudly and softly, No, dearest.

    At which she withdrew from him frowning.

    No! I'm not a bit like those girls, she proclaimed. I merely tell you YOU CAN'T GO! My gracious! she cried, helplessly. She knew the words fell short of expressing her distress, but her education had not supplied her with exclamations of greater violence.

    My goodness! she cried. How can you frighten me so? It's not like you, she reproached him. "You are so

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