Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
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shipment, practical, simple, and complete. Our drug section
has the separate articles, but we ought to--" "Oh, lord!" groaned Slosson, and slumped disgustedly in his seat. But Fenger got up, came over to Fanny, and put a hand on her shoulder for a moment. He looked down at her. "I knew you'd do it." He smiled queerly. "Tell me, where did you learn all this?" "I don't know," faltered Fanny happily. "Brandeis' Bazaar, perhaps. It's just another case of plush photograph album." "Plush--?" Fanny told him that story. Even the discomfited Slosson grinned at it. But after ten minutes more of general discussion Slosson left. Fenger, without putting it in words, had conveyed that to him. Fanny stayed. They did things that way at Haynes-Cooper. No waste. No delay. That she had accomplished in two months that which ordinarily takes years was not surprising. They did things that way, too, at Haynes-Cooper. Take the case of Nathan Haynes himself. And Michael Fenger too who, not so many years before, had been a machine-boy in a Racine woolen mill. For my part, I confess that Fanny Brandeis begins to lose |
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