We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
BOOKS BY RUPERT HUGHES
We Can't Have Everything
In A Little Town
The Thirteenth Commandment
Clipped Wings
What Will People Say?
The Last Rose Of Summer
Empty Pockets
CONTENTS
Kedzie Thropp had never seen Fifth Avenue or a yacht or a butler or a glass of champagne or an ocean or a person of social prominence. She wanted to see them.
Rupert Hughes
WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING
THE FIRST BOOK
MISS KEDZIE THROPP COMES TO TOWN
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
SPANKED GIRL GONE
POLICE OF NATION IN SEARCH
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
ANITA.
CHAPTER XVII
PATRICK X. MAGRUDER—“SKIP.”
CHAPTER XVIII
THE SECOND BOOK
MRS. TOMMIE GILFOYLE HAS HER PICTURE TAKEN
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
MARTHA NOXON.
CHARITY C. CHEEVER.
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
YOUR ONCE LOVED HUSBAND.
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
Turn a parable upside down, and nearly everything falls out of it.
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
THE THIRD BOOK
MRS. JIM DYCKMAN IS NOT SATISFIED
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
What is a man to do who realizes that he has married the wrong woman?
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
THE FOURTH BOOK
THE MARCHIONESS HAS QUALMS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
“Mrs. Charity Coe Cheever, take the stand....”
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
THE END