The Priceless Pearl

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Priceless Pearl, by Alice Duer Miller
THE PRICELESS PEARL
ALICE DUER MILLER
AUTHOR OF Manslaughter, Come Out of the Kitchen, Are Parents People? etc.
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1924
Copyright 1923, 1924 By Alice Duer Miller
Printed in U. S. A.
THE PRICELESS PEARL

THE PRICELESS PEARL
The girl is simply too good-looking, said Bunner, the office manager, in a high, complaining voice. She is industrious, intelligent, punctual and well-mannered, but simply too good-looking—a disturbing element in the office on account of her appearance. I made a grave mistake in engaging her.
The president, who had been a professor of botany at a great university before he resigned in order to become head of The Universal Encyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge Publishing Corporation, was a trifle deaf, but had not as yet admitted the fact to himself; and he inquired with the patient, slightly contemptuous surprise of the deaf, But I do not understand why she is crying.