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Jennie Gerhardt, by Theodore Dreiser
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Title: Jennie Gerhardt A Novel
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Release Date: May 29, 2009 [EBook #28988]
Language: English
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JENNIE GERHARDT
A NOVEL
BY
THEODORE DREISER
AUTHOR OF
"SISTER CARRIE"
BONI and LIVERIGHT
PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK
Copyright, 1911, by Harper & Brothers
Copyright, 1911, by Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
CHAPTER I
One morning, in the fall of 1880, a middle-aged woman, accompanied by a young girl of eighteen, presented herself at the clerk's desk of the principal hotel in Columbus, Ohio, and made inquiry as to whether there was anything about the place that she could do. She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenance and an innocent, diffident manner. Her eyes were large and patient, and in them dwelt such a shadow of distress as only those who have looked sympathetically into the countenances of the distraught and helpless poor know an