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who was frightened h wanted to leap from the but all his body was a fire and he groaned too late to quit now and knew that be did not want to quit there was they felt one very humorous incident on the way a from said monarch is a lot than you haven t got any joints like these here raged that s a dirty you can t find in... | 42 |
paul how d it go did i get em bully i you had a lot of mrs oh it was fine i so clear and interesting and such nice ideas when i hear you i realize i don t appreciate how profoundly you think and what a brain and you have just splendid but was she worried how do you know that public of and so on and so forth will alway... | 42 |
he has a taste for literature and maybe the folks next door drop in and they sit and visit about their friends and the topics of the day then he goes happily to bed his conscience clear having i contributed his to the prosperity of the city and to his own bank account in politics and religion this sane citizen is the m... | 42 |
like to remember a piece that wrote for the newspapers about his lecture it is doubtless familiar to many of you but if you will permit me take i s a chance and read it it s one of the classic poems like if by or s the man worth while and i always carry this of it in my note book when i am out upon the road a poet with... | 42 |
but one thing he does demand of all and and if we e going to pay them our good money they ve got to help us by selling and ing it up for prosperity and when it comes to these fault finding cynical university teachers let me tell you that during this golden coming year it s just as much our duty to bring influence to ha... | 42 |
he was or labor very easy and and gorgeous he was he was a peer in the rapidly american aristocracy inferior only to the haughty old families in an old family is one which came to town before his power was the greater because he was not by scruples by either the vice or the virtue of the older tradition was being placi... | 42 |
jokes he wanted to tell he listened to the others he started off with a let s hear about your trip to the he was extremely he found opportunities to remark that dr was a benefactor to humanity and profound scholars charles an inspiration to ambitious youth and mrs an to the social circles of washington new york paris a... | 42 |
be and was what he called a for all these reasons the gold and scarlet banner of his public achieve ao ments was tbe background of office routine lists of pr q to rent the evenings of and and stimulated him like brandy but every morning he was sandy week by week he accumulated he was in open with his outside and once t... | 42 |
you had asked what his religion was he would have answered in club my religion is to serve my fellow men to honor my brother as myself and to do my bit to make life happier for one and all if you had pressed him for more detail he would have announced i m a member of the church and naturally i accept its doctrines if y... | 42 |
her these become every one who comes gets a glad hand no one goes away a stranger one of the stands on the and by to come in perhaps most of all appreciated the remarks by william h in the sunday school times if you have a sunday school class without any and get iq and go in it that is without interest that is uncertai... | 42 |
the quivering green light of a s then the lights of down town cars with tail lights white arched to like frosty mouths of winter electric signs and little dancing men of fire pink shaded and scarlet music in a up stairs dance hall lights of chinese ns painted with cherry blossoms and with hung against of gold and blac... | 42 |
running to him she on the semblance of ted was mad as was mad a thousand sarcastic did not check his for a car of his own however he might be about early rising and the of he was in with three other boys he bought a ford an amazing body out of tin and pine went round comers in the perilous craft and it at a profit gave... | 42 |
the bad influence later he on ted s breath after the civil farewell to the guests the row was terrific a thorough family scene like an and without thundered mrs wept ted was defiant and in confusion as to whose side she was taking for several months there was coolness between the and the each family their lamb from the... | 42 |
a on a log was most exasperated when she revealed his boyhood to the children he had it seemed been fond of had worn the loveliest little pink bow in his curls and ted his own name to he heard though he did not hear ted come on now kid stick the pink bow in your curls and beat it down to breakfast or will jaw your head... | 42 |
which stimulated business and public confidence by giving an le of increased real estate activity was overwhelmed to find that he had a person working for him the one was the outside for some time had been worried about he did not keep his word to tenants in order to rent a house he would promise which the owner had no... | 42 |
whole office will hear iti and crooked say if i told the attorney what i know about this last street steal both you and me would go to jail along with some nice dean pious high up guns well looks like we were coming down to cases that deal there was nothing crooked about it the only way you can get progress is for th... | 42 |
conductor went on his way huge watch chain against his blue chest and ted gravely considered they arrived at late at night they lay in the morning rejoicing pretty nice not to have to get up and get down to breakfast they were staying at the modest hotel because business men rs stayed at the but they had dinner in the ... | 42 |
i just thought say it does do a fellow good don t it to sit and visit about business conditions after he s been to these balls and and and all that society stuff i often fed that way in sure you bet iii come that s awfully nice of you they beamed along the street look here old du can you me do american always keep up t... | 42 |
being introduced paul grumbled inn on the south side alone it sounded yes i unfortunately furiously paul turned toward the woman smiling with a fondness sickening to may want to introduce you mrs this is my old acquaintance george growled while she oh i m very pleased to meet any friend of mr s i m sure demanded be ba... | 42 |
his shoulder making soft noises honest george she s a fine woman and she s had one of a time we manage to jolly each other up a lot we each other we re the pair on earth maybe we don t believe it but it helps a lot to have somebody with whom you can be perfectly simple and not all this and that s as far as you go it sa... | 42 |
two wives in front chattering about murmured ta paul seems a lot now yes she has been except once or twice but it s too late now i just i m not going to discuss it but i m afraid of her there s nothing left i don t ever want to see her some day i m going to break away from her somehow chapter xxi the organization of c... | 42 |
well and sometimes he didn t know but what he d almost as soon have just plain b or something like that only let any try to get number away from a live next year and watch the fur and if they d permit him he d wind up by calling for a cheer for the and and the all together i sighed to professor be pretty nice to have a... | 42 |
it but my god say let me see the tee s busy come on now you reared over him the attendant hastily changed to a you can come back and try to morrow probably the poor is off his nut drove not at all carefully or sliding past the s curses to the city hall s he stopped with a grind of wheels against the and ran up the ma... | 42 |
i d myself black in the face no aside from the of the matter i m afraid it i isn t practicable the would tear your testimony to pieces it s known that only and his wife were there at the time then look here let me go on the stand and swear and this would be the god s truth that she him till he kind of went crazy no s... | 42 |
part of the of this fog enchanted evening if she were here would be isn t it late he in forlorn and freedom fog hid the house now the world was a chaos without turmoil or desire through the mist came a man at so feverish a pace that he seemed to dance with fury as he entered the of glow from a street at each step he hi... | 42 |
guests let em look out for i couldn t do that she carelessly tapped his shoulder and slipped away but after two minutes of and childish longing to home he was certainly i wasn t trying to get with knew there was nothing doing all the time and he in to dance with mrs jones and to avoid and chapter xxiv his visit to paul... | 42 |
dance like some of these young fellows but tell you i fed it s a man s place to take a full you might say a share in the world s work and conditions and have something to show for his life don t you think so oh i do and so i have to sacrifice some of the things i might like to tackle though i do by play about as good a... | 42 |
rub sir very to the sir didn t i give you one the last time he hadn t but agreed all right with eagerness he saw that his girl was free i don t know i guess have a after all he and excitedly watched her coming dark haired smiling tender little the would have to be finished at her table and he would be able to talk to h... | 42 |
there s one nice thing about this job it gives a girl a chance to meet some awfully nice gentlemen and improve her mind with conversation and you get so you can read a s character at the first glance look here please don t think i m getting fresh he was hotly reflecting that it would be humiliating to be rejected by ... | 42 |
sleep under the stars be a regular man with he like joe paradise a so he came to again stood on the wharf before the can again into the and shivering water while the pines the mountains glowed and a leaped and fell in a sliding circle he hurried to the guides as to his real home his real friends long missed they wo... | 42 |
the name of that little red flower rubbing his back joe regarded the flower well some folks call it one thing and some calls it another i always just call it pink flower ceased thinking as ing turned into blind he was in weariness his legs seemed to go on by without guidance and he mechanically wiped away the sweat whi... | 42 |
to be one of the rich myself and buy paintings and live at i m sure inspired us all well well i ve always aimed to be liberal was shy and proud and self conscious he tried to look like the boy he had been a quarter century ago and he shone upon his old friend as he trouble with a lot of these fellows even the live wire... | 42 |
her face flushed her dead y ice something of the shrill energy of ae old a she wound up with a furious it s the blessing of god himself that paul should be in prison now and torn and by punishment so that he may yet save his soul and so other wicked men these horrible after women and lust may have an le had and twisted... | 42 |
about standing maybe there isn t in mechanical the s they got seven out of eleven in the new to chapter the strike turned into two and red began late in with a walk out of girls and in protest against a of wages the newly formed union of workers went out partly in s and partly in demand for a f ji ty four hour week th... | 42 |
he saw a drove of shabby men heading toward the tangled dirty district beyond court house square he hated them because they were poor because they made him fed damn i wouldn t be common workmen if they had any he con he wondered if there was going to be a riot he drove toward the starting point of the parade a of limp ... | 42 |
all to be put in jail i never did well i mean some of em of course leaders but i mean a fellow ou t to be and liberal about things like but i thought you always said these so called liberal people were the worst of rats i woman never can understand the different of a word depends on how you mean it and it don t pay ... | 42 |
indicated that of course he didn t mean it but first i guess i better look at that she with him to the flat roof of the a detached world of wooden walks water in a he at things with his toe and sought to impress her by being learned about copper the of passing pipes through a lead and sleeve and flashing them with cop... | 42 |
wife without the fact being known before nightfall in every house in your circle but was beautifully discreet however she might turn to him when they were alone she was gravely detached when they were abroad and he hoped that she would be taken for a jones once saw them emerging from a and let me make you with mrs now ... | 42 |
was an eternal their life was by t of and kisses they and their set worked all the week and all week looked forward to saturday night when they would as they expressed it throw a party and the thrown party grew and no ia up to sunday dawn and usually included an extremely rapid x expedition to nowhere in particular one... | 42 |
sound thinking to make a conscious effort to keep these fellows some back east has organized a society called the good citizens league for just that pose of course the of commerce and the and ao on do a fine work in the decent people ib the saddle but th re devoted to so many other causes that they can attend to this o... | 42 |
force of her wondered whether he could remain a good husband and still out of the house this evening for half an hour with the bunch when he had the car he upstairs into the familiar warmth of her presence help you your bag no i can do it slowly she turned holding up a small box and slowly she so said i brought you a p... | 42 |
but all that s the trouble with women i they re always and and bringing things up and then they say it s for your own good l why george that s not a nice way to talk to answer me so short well i didn t mean to answer short but talking as if i was a not able to one without calling for the st mary s a fine idea you must ... | 42 |
apartment with pale green walls and plaster wreaths of roses refined and refined frail gilt chairs here were gathered sixty five women and ten men most of the men in their chairs and ed wives sat rigidly at attention but two of them men were as devout as their wives they were newly rich who having bought houses hand ... | 42 |
damn sick of it and i don t want to hear anything more about it why george do you realize what you re saying why george in all our years together you ve never talked to me like that it s about time then lately you ve been getting worse and worse and now finally you re cursing and swearing at me and shouting at me and y... | 42 |
it was time for a escape to he merely to his wife got to go out be back by eleven should think you re going out again again what do you mean s n i haven t hardly been out of the house for a week are you are you going to the got to see some people though this time he heard his own voice and knew that it was though she ... | 42 |
he had to look pleased under that touch the more demanding in its softness he was impatient he wanted to flee out to a hard sure man world through hear delicate and caressing fingers she may have caught something of his she left him he was for the moment relieved she dragged a to his feet and sat up at him but as in ... | 42 |
everybody i m to run my own in this mood he was particularly objectionable at the ers club lunch next day they were addressed by a man who had just returned from an three months study of the political systems divisions resources and of germany france great britain italy and he told them all about those subjects togethe... | 42 |
t a question of whether it s a good league or a bad league or what the hell kind of a league it is it s just a question of my refusing to be told i got to but dear if you don t join people t you let em but i mean nice people rats i matter of this whole l is just a it s like all these other that start off with such a ... | 42 |
dam shame for two married people to drift apart after all these years rotten shame but nothing could bring them together now as long as he refused to let bully him into taking orders and he was by not going to let anybody bully him into an or him or him either he woke at three roused by a passing and struggled out of ... | 42 |
the instruments for an operation to save her life it was she who consoled him and kissed the place to make it well and though he tried to be and mature he to her and was glad to be the whirled under the carriage entrance of the hospital and instantly he was reduced to a in the nightmare succession of cork halls endless... | 42 |
his door is open they ought to be home said the dance would be over at midnight what s the name of those people where they re going why tell the truth i don t know it s some of ted s out in woods don t see what we can do wait up and ask i if she knows their name turned on the light in ted s room it was a brown boyish ... | 42 |
that would be sold up the and across the the rolled out in greeting a chorus cheerful as the april dawn the song of labor in a city it seemed for giants there was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man was beginning to awaken on the porch of a dutch house in that district of known as heights his name was georg... | 42 |
bath mat was wrinkled and the floor was wet his ter took in the morning now and then he slipped on the mat and slid against the tub he said furiously he snatched up his of cream furiously he with a of the brush furiously he his plump with a safety it pulled the blade was dull he said oh oh damn iti he through the me... | 42 |
d d are i pose you n on j v to rub in your exalted social position well let me tell you that paternal henry t doesn t even call it a he calls it a jacket for a monkey and you couldn t get him into one unless you now don t be horrid george well i don t want to be horrid but you re getting as as ever since she got out o... | 42 |
baby at ten with radiant red hair and a thin skin which hinted of too much and too mai ice cream did not show his vague irritation as he in he really disliked being a family tyrant and his was as as it was frequent he shouted at well it was the only pet name in his t the dear and hon with which he recognized his wife a... | 42 |
merely going to the that evening to see the dog and cat show she was then ted planned to park the car in of the store across from the and be would pick it up were arrangements leaving the key and having the filled and passionately of the great god th the patch on the spare inner and the lost ted served that her friends... | 42 |
are any blooming bunch of of of why it makes me timidly from mrs i would like to see the inside of their house though it must be lovely i ve never been inside well i lots of couple o times to see about business in the evening it s not so much i wouldn t want to go there to dinner with that gang of of and bet i make a ... | 42 |
with laughter but was old for a man of forty two he was tall broad duck his gold spectacles were in the folds of his long face his hair was a tossed mass of greasy he puffed and as he talked bis key shone against a black be of old pipes he was altogether and and to and tiie of he added an of this morning he was in fron... | 42 |
for a car have a lift as the man climbed in clear down town whenever i see a fellow waiting a i always make it a practice to give him a lift unless of course be looks like a bum wish there were more folks that were so generous with n on j v th said the victim of benevolence c no tain t a question of hardly fact i alw... | 42 |
lack of that firm manner which say i think i got just the that would nut the house in ob you ve seen it well how d it strike you ob oh i see as marched into his private room a with of oak and glass at the back of the office he reflected bow hard it was to find who had his own faith that he was going to make were nine ... | 42 |
down your lane with the good tidings and if we can t we won t you to save your time just fill oat the blank enclosed on request will also send blank regarding more properties in heights silver grove and all east side districts yours for service p s just a of some we can for that came in to day grove four room a shade... | 42 |
out a cigar and a match but only one match if cigar goes out by have to stay out later when the cigar did go out he took one more match from tlie file and a and a came in for a conference at eleven naturally he had to offer them cigars his conscience protested why you re smoking with but he it oh shut i m busy now of ... | 42 |
em behave and keep out of it besides these reform always that was the beginning and quite the end of his into s and an as to the vice districts he brightly expressed it those are things that no decent man with besides fact tell you it s a protection to our and to decent women to have a district where tough nuts can rai... | 42 |
was to increase the rent of uie store building on the lot the tenant said a number of rude things but he paid now seemed ready to buy and his delay was going to cost him ten thousand extra dollars the reward paid by the community to mr for the virtue of a who had vision and who understood talking points key situations... | 42 |
raged ought to take care of and need more walk to the every sin e noon just what m do every noon cut out this all the time the resolution made him fed immediately after k be decided that this noon it was too late to walk n on j v a it took but little more time to start his car and edge it int the traffic than it h... | 42 |
i did hear george s went into tlie wear d at s to buy him some and before she could give his neck the clerk slips her some how know the size says mrs and the clerk says men that let wives buy for d always wear thirteen madam how s s good eh how s that eh i that ll about you i i sought amiable in answer he stared at ... | 42 |
to the then was a big crowd waiting in the us at the tail end she began to push right through it with her sir how dare you honestly sometimes en i look at her and see how always so made and of and looking for trouble and kind of always i tell ite a lady damn why i want to kill well she keeps through the crowd me her... | 42 |
be strictly as an to the community in fact you re so earnest about ty old that i to think how you be all n t you can wait wait what s talk about morals all you want to old thing but believe m if it hadn t been for you and an occasional evening playing the to s and three or four is that let me forget this joke they u... | 42 |
conventional enough to be ashamed of saving my life by out with my fool old paul your nerves are kind of on the bum i m going to take you away i m going to this thing i m going to have an important deal in new york and and sure of need you advise me on the roof of the and the de deal wiu fall through and be f of us b... | 42 |
and in these you can get all kinds of that would come ic handy say listen to this one can you play a man s part if you are walking with your mother sister or best girl and some one passes a remark or uses improper language won t you be ashamed if you can t take her part well can you we teach and self by mail pupils hav... | 42 |
been looking for there s money in it big money and that rapid change of scene that and ng interest and fascination b active mind and adventurous spirit of being the chief figure and directing in serving mysteries and crimes this w h d ul profession brings you into contact with influential men on the basis of and often ... | 42 |
old man i i know ah right i ll stick to it i forgot all about those i was going to take to the chorus ill have to but you haven t done all your home work do it first thing in the morning six times in the past sixty days bad you not do it first thing in the morning do it right but to night he said well better and his mi... | 42 |
some day i m going to take a long trip yea we d ea ay that she yawned he looked away from her as be realized that he not wish to have her go with him as he locked doors and tried windows and set the heat so that the would open in the morning he sighed a little heavy with a feeling which and frightened him so absent m... | 42 |
they were to keep the innocent by drinking them out of tea cups the lady threw her at the s head he worked his revolver out of the pocket in bis sleeve and casually her at that moment in z th two men sat in a for thirty seven hours now they had been working on a report of their of at that moment in here was a conferenc... | 42 |
in london i saw a picture of an american in a ad on the back of the saturday post an lined s street of these new an v loi of em or with low roofs and the kind of street you d find here in say in heights open trees grass and i vas there s no other in the world that has pleasant houses and i don t care if they are it ... | 42 |
it no one got a ri t to personal jones just the same you don t want to forget is a mighty good thing for the working classes keeps em from wasting their money and lowering said yes that s so but the trouble is the manner of insisted undo stand the right system now if i d running the thing n on j v d have arranged it ... | 42 |
you hi brows to get stuck on yourselves but i must say it keeps a fellow right on his toes to sit in with a poet and with the that put the con in but these with nobody but each other to talk to no they get so and in their speech and so up in their jones commented and then take our other advantages the these sports thi... | 42 |
was not an of women except as to their tastes in furnished houses to rent he divided them into real ladies working women old and fly chickens he over their charms but he was of opinion hat all of them save the women of his own family were different and mysterious yet he had known by instinct that could be approached he... | 42 |
hb pieces i suppose i ever will now he bad without explanation the in of a and on it in against menacing clouds a lone and austere figure he was dismayed by a sudden t for his friends he grasped s hand and found the comfort of human warmth habit came a warrior and be shook himself what the deuce is the matter with me t... | 42 |
i i why now and i were just saying how hard paul s been all year and we thinking it oe lovely if the boys could nm os by themselves i ve been george to go up to ahead of the rest of us and get the tired out of his system before ve come and x it would be if paul could manage to get away and join him at this exposure of ... | 42 |
folding chairs and ice boxes he simple wanted to buy all of them it was the paul whom he was always vaguely protecting who kept him from bis drunken desires but even paul listened a with poetry and discussed flies now of course yoa boys know he said the great scrap is between dry flies and wet flies personally i m for ... | 42 |
may cost a little more money but it s worth it when you got to be up early next morning and out selling a lot of and i said to him oh just drive me over to the well we got there and i up to the desk and said to the clerk well brother got a nice room with bath cousin bill you d a thought i d sold bim a second or asked ... | 42 |
think keep their works awful dirty bum but i don t suppose there s any law against calling em picturesque if it gets you that way i paul returned to bis new and the conversation moved on to trains what time do we get into asked i think we get in at no that was last year s wait a let s got a time table right here i wo... | 42 |
m did not answer paul was vith clenched head ing staring at the as in terror his thin body seen against the summer glaring the wharf was again what would you hit for on the side at the steamer bis breast heaving paul whispered my while him anxiously be ed come oa let s get out of this and hastened down the wharf not lo... | 42 |
it s been awful nice to sit around and loaf and and act regular with vou along you old horse well you know what it means to me saved mj life the shame of emotion overpowered them they cursed little to prove they were good rough fellows and in a mellow silence whistling while paul back to the hotel though it was paul wh... | 42 |
kind of scatter em all through he asked for a set of about real estate something good and impressive and provided something exceedingly good and impressive but it was to t that most often turned he caught at the club every noon and demanded while looked hunted and say you re a hi this writing stuff how would yoa put ... | 42 |
tb shouted that s the and in the v mi afterward they referred with to our and brother mr george f he had id minutes changed from a minor to a person almost as well known as that of business after the meeting from all over the state said you brother sixteen complete strangers called him george and three men took bim in... | 42 |
of nature sighed i don t know how it strikes you but i like this loose for a change and kick ii over a couple of mountains and climbing up on the north pole and waving the around the man from a grave intense i guess i m as good a husband as the run of the mill but god i do get so tired of going home every evening and n... | 42 |
cheered him and when he worked up to his anecdote of their were wet modestly busily he hurried out of the hall on applause and sped os to his third audience of the evening ted you better drive he said kind of all in after that q ie well paul how d it go did i get em you had a lot of mrs oh it was so clear and interesti... | 42 |
them our good they ve got to help us by selling and it iq for rational prosperity and it comes to these mouth fault finding cynical ty teachers let me tell you that during this golden coming it s just as much our duty to bring influence to have those fired as it is to all the real estate and gather in all the good we c... | 42 |
and o had and went to europe squeezed among them he liked s smile as much as the social to be had from his if in paul s company be felt and with mc he su t and he heard say to the banker yes we ll put up sir s love for titles became a you know he s one of tbe in england o old say george is getting than i ami the shoute... | 42 |
his and even was silent as the lonely man who had lost his way and forever cr down roads spun out his dark soul in nothing gave more and than his labors for the sunday school his church the road was one of the largest and richest one of the most and in the was the reverend john drew ma d d the m a and the were from the... | 42 |
is if he murdered or committed or used or had or sold non estate he would be punished was er about be this of he v c to ted of course i m liberal i don t exactly believe in a fire and hell stands to though that a fellow can t get away with all sorts of vice and not get for it see how i mean upon this he rarely pondere... | 42 |
at it as if it was a problem of course the one and need is growth i presume we re an agreed we won t be satisfied till we build up the bi t dam sunday school in the whole state so the road won t have to take anything off anybody now about up the campaign for prospects they ve already used and given to the that bring in... | 42 |
he said the of the fold of commerce for the first time departed from the topic of sunday schools and asked about the progress of bis business answered modestly almost a few months later when he bad a chance to take part in the street company s deal did not care to go to his own bank for a loan it was rather a quiet sor... | 42 |
i am this happened needless to say iii fire the minute he comes in and of course your lease stands but there s one other thing i d like to do ill the owner not to pay us the commission but apply it to your rent no straight i want to to be fr this thing shakes me p bad i suppose i ve always been a practical business man... | 42 |
won t paint that town and once away from the familiar of home th were two men ted was young only in his tion of and the only apparently in which had a larger and more grown t knowledge than ted s were the details of real estate and the phrases of politics tbe other of the liad left to s voice did not drop playful and o... | 42 |
to with a crash the melancholy stranger was sir instinctively rose how re you sir member we met in at s s my name real estate how d you do sir shook hands embarrassed standing wondering bow he could retreat well i pose you been having a great trip since we saw you in quite british and and all over the he said doubtful... | 42 |
been in the states real talk not all this social i d never have let them give me the tide and i didn t get it for nothing di if i d thought i d have to talk to women about and thing to have in though annoyed the mayor most when i got it and of course the likes it but nobody calls me now he was almost and nobody in ... | 42 |
in a amid a of boxes and cheap magazines and she sounded when she did not sound but was exceedingly well well old dear having a good loaf away the meal bet a bat never got up v till ten while i was in say could i borrow your just dr v in to see if i could borrow your bottle we re going to liave a want to take some co... | 42 |
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