Gaslight Sonatas

by Fannie Hurst

II. SIEVE OF FULFILMENT

III. ICE-WATER, PL—!

IV. HERS NOT TO REASON WHY

V. GOLDEN FLEECE

VI. NIGHTSHADE

VII. GET READY THE WREATHS

GASLIGHT SONATAS

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BITTER-SWEET

Much of the tragical lore of the infant mortality, the malnutrition, and the five-in-a-room morality of the city's poor is written in statistics, and the statistical path to the heart is more figurative than literal.