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From Jest to Earnest

by Edward P. ROE (1838 - 1888)

Another Spell Than Beauty's

As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her friends. She pretends to be a seeker in order to win his affections, but gets a lot more than she bargained for... - Summary by LikeManyWaters

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Listen next episodes of From Jest to Earnest:
A Lover Quenched , A Night In The Snow , A Possible Tragedy , A Rationalist Of The Old School , A True Knight , Around The Yule-Log , Finding One's Level , Hemstead Sees ''Our Set'' , Hemstead's Advice, And Lottie's Colors , Hemstead's Heavy Gun And Its Recoil , How Woman Makes Or Mars , Human Nature , In Earnest , Lottie A Mysterious Problem , Loyal , Midnight Vigils , Miss Marsden Asks Sombre Questions , Misunderstood , Mr. Dimmerly Concludes To ''Meddle'' , On A Crumbling Ice-Floe , The Christmas Sunday , The Dawning Light , The End Of The ''Jest'' , The Meeting And Greeting , ''The Other Set'' , The Preacher Taught By The Pagan , The Terror Of A Great Fear , The Trail Of Love , Under The Mistletoe , ''You Must Wait And See''