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OUR MR. WRENN, by SINCLAIR LEWIS

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OUR MR. WRENN
THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A GENTLE MAN


BY
SINCLAIR LEWIS


HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

MCMXIV


COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY, 1914


TO
GRACE LIVINGSTONE HEGGER



CHAPTER I
MR. WRENN IS LONELY

The ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a
public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York,
wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons.
He nods to all the patrons, and his nod is the most cordial
in town. Mr. Wrenn used to trot down to Fourteenth Street,
passing ever so many other shows, just to get that cordial nod,
because he had a lonely furnished room for evenings, and for
daytime a tedious job that always made his head stuffy.

He stands out in the correspondence of the Souvenir and Art