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deepest application and the consideration of its perpetual action upon reaction i believe the highest type of service like the of senses and is by active and loyalty to that which is the essential principle of good in all its and aspects the all read mr s i and said th it perfectly the meeting with the regular weekly ...	42
we will now proceed to the annual of officers for each of the six offices three had been chosen by a committee the second name among the for vice president was s he was surprised he looked self his heart he was still more agitated the were counted and said it s a pleasure to announce that will be the next assistant i k...	42
of the opinions of the ted was working in a through the summer and he related his daily triumphs how be had found a cracked what he had said to the old ii t he had said to the about the future of ted and went to a dance after even the maid was out rarely had been alone in the for an entire evening he was restless he va...	42
a determination to do what he pleased as he approached the table at the everybody here s the said yes i saw him in his said professor it must be great to be a smart like el moaned he s probably stolen all of i d hate to leave a poor little piece of property lying around where he get his hooks on iti they had perceived ...	42
know what a rotten i ami he was to his feet ill teach you i can teach anybody her eyes were moist her voice was jagged with excitement he was convinced that he had won her he ed her conscious of her smooth warmth and solemnly he in a heavy of the one step he ed into only one or c two people i m not doing so bad em up l...	42
isle in the stretch of white stone floor were a dozen leather chairs and a table heaped with magazines s porter was an gray b red negro who did him an honor bi y esteemed in the land of greeted him by name yet was unhappy his bright particular was engaged she was doing the nails of an man and with him him he thought o...	42
say it s funny i ve coming here ever since the shop opened and with arch surprise i don t believe i know your name don t you my that s i don t know yours now you quit met what s the nice little name oh it ain t so dam nice i guess it s kind of but n folks my pa a s p a was a nobleman in and there was a in here one da...	42
i ll kiss you when we say night now give me a he was about lighting ber and inquiring as to her comfort then he sat as far from her as possible he was cold with failure no one could have told that he was a fool with more vigor precision and intelligence than ne himself di he reflected that from the of the rev dr john d...	42
believed that be was going to do it whenever common sense nonsense folks don t run away from decent families and partners just simply don t do it that s then answered y well it wouldn t take any than for paul to go to and lord bow i d like to do six gun frontier town deep under the stars be a regular man with he...	42
are to live in woods like this instead of a city with grinding and and the life out of you all the i wish i knew the woods like you do say what s the name of that little red rubbing his back joe regarded the flower ell some folks call it one thing and some calls it another i always just call it pink flower ceased think...	42
to be a lawyer and take the cases of the poor for nothing and fi t the rich and i remember i said i was going to be one of the rich myself and buy paintings and live at i m sure you in us all i ve always aimed to be liberal was and proud and self conscious be tried to look like the boy he had been a quarter century ago...	42
talked pouring out to flee the wrath to come and her face flushed h dead voice something of the shrill energy of old she wound up with a furious it the u sing of god himself that paul should be in prison now and torn and by punishment so that be may yet save his soul and so other wicked men these horrible after women a...	42
newly formed union of workers went out partly in sympathy and partly in demand for a four hour week they were followed by the union industry was tied up and the whole city was with talk of a strike a strike a strike furious citizens trying to get calls strike breaking girls danced helplessly every that made its way fro...	42
as moon street park and halted his car the park and streets were with young men n shirts old men with o than than stirred like a boiling pot moved the could hear the monotonous orders keep moving move on tm keep your feet admired stolid good the crowd shouted soldiers and dirty dogs servants of the but the and answ...	42
t understand the of and profit the way we business men do but sometimes i think they re about like the rest of us and no more ho for wages than we are profits george if pet le were to hear you talk like that of course i know you i what a wild boy you were i know you don t mean a word you say but if pe e that didn t y...	42
heavens he stood a moment at the over a land of hard little with large and new apartment small but brave with brick walls and them was a hill with a of yellow day like a vast wound behind every apartment house beside each dwelling were small it was a world of good little people comfortable industrious in the light the ...	42
way up in the reading room yes sure i told the strike leaders where they got off and so they wait home well i says to him glad there wasn t any violence v s yes he says but if i hadn t kept there would ve all those had in ts tbey te leg oh rats i s q looked em all over carefully and they didn t have any more n a rabbi...	42
it and toward his coat at the he t preposterous stores of food chosen on the principle of from the store across the street he to his wife got to get a to sign a lease he leaves town on the midnight t be home till late don t wait me kiss good he back to the flat ob you bad thing to so was her greeting and her voice was ...	42
her throat the slack flesh beneath her chin the of her youth were loose and drooping between dances she sat in the largest chair waving her her admirers to come and talk to her she thinks she s a blooming growled she to miss my little it s a plain old maid and dog flat ob god i wish i was home i wonder if i can t make ...	42
just about still a say she s aw i know you care for fights but the and i d be glad u you could come in some night think you could stand a good for once stand it i bet old george can mix the best in these united that s the way to talk look here here s some folks coming to the house to ni t and some other live ones and ...	42
yet so de been he i suppose you d especially light on fellows like and to make em you bet your sweet life we look here old i ve never for one moment believed you meant it when you ve defended and the and so on at th club i knew you were simply those like at least i certainly hope you were oh well sure course you mig...	42
reason for slipping down to the store on smith street with its he was laden with till be threw it off with the speculation why the deuce should i fret so about not being able to she can get along without me i don t owe ha anything she a fine girl but i ve given her just as much as she has m oh damn these women and the ...	42
and looking after your clothes and s and ted s and s and everybody s and the and and going down to the to market od bringing my basket to save on the and well with a i maybe you but talk about here i have to be in the office single day while you can go out all afternoon and see and visit with the and do any thing yo...	42
mrs was than one would like one s sea and yet her voice had the real professional note it was refined and it was y calm it flowed on without one till was her favorite word was always which she pronounced ways her principal gesture was a but thoroughly blessing with two fingers she explained about this matter of there a...	42
simply furious at each other and oh i do hate that kind of a mix up don t you i mean it s so lacking in but and mother wants to come and stay with me for a whole month and of course i do love ha i suppose i do but shell my style something dreadful she never can learn not to comment and she always wants to know ere ...	42
something i ou td t to oh i m so dreadfully he put his hands him not a thing god bless you not a thing you re as good as th r make em but it just good lord do you realize i ve got things to do in the i ve got a business to attend to and you might not believe it but i ve got a wife and that i m awful fond ofl then only...	42
whipped his first comfort was from ted and they danced in one evening when ted was home from the university and ted chuckled what s this i hear from she says her you raised by c hot dog give em stir em this old is ed down on s lap kissed him her hair against liis chin and i think you re lots than why is it that is such...	42
to go out this evening will you he was on his knees t y the bed she feebly ruffled his hair he sobbed be kissed the lawn of her sleeve and old honey i love you more than anything in the world i i ve kind of been worried by and everything but that all over now and i m back again are you really george i was thinking ij h...	42
and lis merry brown eyed of a wife selected the prettiest oi in all the stock of and all bis friends ceased whispering about him suspecting him at the club they asked after her daily club members whose names he did not know stopped bim to inquire how s your good lady getting on felt that he was swinging from bleak down...	42
ask tell you how it is here a ago i i got kind of slack took a few drinks and so on what i wanted to ask is how is it if a cuts that all out and comes back to his senses does it sort of well you mi t say does it score against him in the long run the reverend dr drew was suddenly interested and brother the other thing...	42
one could see through a door at one end of the to the with its chairs and array of outside were usually two or three arriving or departing in accordance with the movement of the trains to this came the best of the political social patronage of the state several had i made it their permanent abiding place during their t...	43
what to do confided her mother with a long drawn sigh i don t there s a thing to eat in the house let s stop and see mr i ain exclaimed her natural sympathies restored by the hopeless note in her mother s voice i do you think he would trust us any more let s tell him where we re working i will well said her mother wear...	43
looked at her and again recognized that absolute want was written all over her anxious face let s see he answered thinking of and both were charitable men who would be more than glad to aid a poor woman you go up and see he continued he s in twenty two here he added writing out the number you go up and tell him i sent ...	43
straining anxiety carried him safely to his mother did george complain that he was hungry she gave him all of her bread many were the hours in which she had rocked her younger brothers and sisters to sleep singing whole l and dreaming far dreams since her earliest walking period she had been as the right hand of her mo...	43
which touched and awakened the sympathies of the imaginative people thought him y agreeable and his looked upon h im as not any too heavy mentally but personally a fine man his presence in at this particular time was due to the fact that his political fences needed careful the general election had weakened in the state...	43
tuesday the monday before there was no school before going to the hotel mrs bad g that he must bring enough coal from the yards to last over christmas day the latter went at once with his two younger sisters but there being a of good picking it took them a long time to fill their baskets and by night they had gathered ...	43
the children to take it right home she hurried away in the opposite direction the followed vainly calling three or four times losing hope of her and suddenly and thereupon respecting her simple girlish shame he stopped and turning back decided to follow the children again he felt that same sensation which he seemed alw...	43
help but i attract any man already she was well built and tall for a had she been dressed in the trailing skirts of a woman of fashion she would have made a fitting companion for a man the height of the her x eyes were clear and bright her skin fair and i her teeth white and even she was clever too in a sen way and by ...	43
desires several times he noticed that she was his questions particularly in regard to what her father was doing she was ashamed to own that he was wood fearing lest something more serious was impending he decided to go out some day and see for himself this he did when a convenient morning presented itself and his other...	43
extremely with his leader he met her with the most formality when she knocked at his door he only troubled to open it a foot exclaiming almost harshly i can t bother about the clothes to night come tomorrow retreated shocked and surprised by this reception she did not know what to think of it he was restored on the ins...	43
the watch must go bass took it and after much argument with the local he had been able to bring home ten dollars mrs expended the money upon her children and heaved a sigh of relief looked very much better naturally was glad now however when the spoke of it her hour i z i c of seemed at band she actually trembled and ...	43
little more than religion had as yet no striking hold upon her it was a pleasant thing to know that there was a heaven a one to realize that there was a hell young girls and boys ought to be good and obey their parents otherwise the whole religious problem was badly in her mind l z i c i was convinced that everything s...	43
for i don t know said mrs he comes here to the house i don t know anything but good about the man can i tell him not to come paused at this all that he knew of the was excellent what was there now that was so terrible about it the neighbors are so ready to talk they haven t got anything else to talk about now so they t...	43
bit unworthy he did not know what to do about the situation and while he was trying to come to some decision several days went by then he was called to washington and he went away without having seen again in the mean time the family struggled along as before they were poor indeed but was willing to face poverty if onl...	43
sitting up i may think of something you go to bed went to her room but the very thought of repose she had read in the paper shortly d l after her father s quarrel with the that the latter had departed for washington there had been no notice of his return still he might be in the city she stood before a short narrow mir...	43
his room there are in all men s lives when they d l the strict fulfilment of justice and duty and the i great possibilities for personal happiness which another nine of conduct seems to assure and the dividing line is not always marked and clear he knew that the issue of taking her even as his wife was made difficult b...	43
the many ways in which she could help them all a block away she waited for who accompanied her to her own gate and waited while she made a cautious she up the steps and tried the door it was open she paused a moment to indicate to her lover that she was safe and entered all was silent within she slipped to her own room...	43
at this time but never suspected that there was serious in his then the doctor discovered that he was suffering from a form of the of which took away his senses for a time and left him very weak he was thought to be however when just six weeks after he bad last parted with he was seized with a sudden attack of heart an...	43
able to tell her husband before they returned all the morning she about the moment and letting him retire to his slumber without speaking when afternoon came she did not go out to work because she could not leave with her painful duty arose at four and still she hesitated knowing full well that would soon return and th...	43
he said she shall not stay under my roof to night at once i will not let her enter my door again i will show her whether she will disgrace me or not you mustn t turn her out on the streets to night pleaded mrs she has no place to go q l to night he repeated this very minute let her find a home she did not want this one...	43
no outside when we are cast from a group or a condition we have still the companionship of all that is nature ia not its winds and stars are fellows with you let the soul be but gentle and and this vast truth will come home not in set phrases perhaps d l but as a feeling a comfort which after all is the last essence o...	43
be anything here mrs listened with a strong hope for a of their miserable life creeping into her heart if bass would only do this if he would go and get work and come to her rescue as a strong bright young son i might what a thing it would be i they were in the of a life which was moving toward a dreadful calamity if o...	43
a purpose a child in years was a woman physically and mentally but not yet come into rounded conclusions as to life and her place in it the great situation which had forced her into this position was from one point of view a tribute to her individual capacity it proved her courage the of her sympathy her to sacrifice f...	43
a month cottages that were for rent there were big general furnishing houses where one could buy everything needful for a small house on very easy monthly terms his mother could come and keep house for them they would be in a clean new atmosphere unknown and about they could start life all over again they could be dec...	43
she disappeared from view she said tenderly through her own tears i m glad she looked so nice anyhow l chapter xiii r ass met at the in and talked of the prospects the first thing is to get work he began while the sounds and the changing which the city thrust upon her were and almost her senses get something to do it d...	43
s apartment delighted to be able to report that she had found a situation now her mother could come to now she could have her baby with her now they could really begin that new life which was to be so much better and finer and sweeter than anything they had ever had before at bass s suggestion wrote her mother to come ...	43
past all was business all activity the very turning of the comer seemed to rid one of old times and crimes it was as if a new world existed in every block he soon found a place in a cigar store and after working a few weeks he began to write home the cheering ideas he had in mind ought to come as soon as she was able a...	43
go ahead said mrs it s all right he won t say anything finally went to the door and seeing her father his brow wrinkled as if in serious but not thought she hesitated but made her way forward papa she said unable to a definite sentence ii l looked up his brown eyes a study under their heavy sandy lashes at the sight of...	43
he heard again the which had helped to bind him to his own children is it your intention to this child in the knowledge and love of the gospel asked the minister as they stood before him in the silent little church whither they had brought the infant he was reading from the form provided for such occasions answered yes...	43
the uttle child and yet he could not yield his position all in a moment that is a nice man he said of the minister to his wife as they walked along rapidly softening in his conception of his duty yes he was agreed mrs timidly it s a good sized little church he continued yes looked around him at the street the houses th...	43
seemed why she could hardly say that a real personage had arrived the house was the attitude of her mistress was much more everybody seemed to feel that something must be done for this man went about her work but the impression persisted his name ran in her mind and he was from she looked at him now and then on the sly...	43
when she could see the guests at the table from the parlor or sitting room and at odd times when he came to mrs s to talk things over they were very friendly l t and get mc ai c i ne i ir no tes j be of n iii your iu s le il r be i at y she im er b m r if bad in a c b ve bis s w be w m it he of ber ac x ner be in ...	43
up as the heir to a comfortable fortune and expected to marry in his own sphere he was by no means sure that he wanted marriage on any terms of course the state was an institution it was established yes certainly but what of it the whole nation believed in it true but other nations believed in there were other question...	43
they think the more definite and conventional relationship may be established without reproach or the necessity of radical was past the youthful love period and he knew it the innocence and of younger had gone he wanted the comfort of feminine companionship but he was more and more to give up his personal liberty in or...	43
no no no she replied in an voice i can t do anything like that mr please listen to me it can t be you don t know oh you don t know i can t do what you want i don t want to i t even if i wanted to you don t know how things are but i don t want to do anything wrong i mustn t i can t i won t oh no i please let me go home ...	43
ask me he insisted further but she was firm and finally he put the money away one thing is sure you re not going to escape me he said you ll have to come to me eventually don t you know you will your own attitude shows that i m not going to leave you alone oh if you knew the trouble you re causing me i m not causing yo...	43
high forehead slightly inclined to bright liquid blue eyes an eagle nose and thin firm even lips he was a man of few words rather slow to action and of deep thought he sat close to his father as vice president of the big company which i occupied two whole blocks in an section of the city he was a strong man a coming m...	43
home news until the of the clock in the hall warned the guests up stairs that dinner had been served sat down in great comfort amid the of the great louis dining room he liked this home atmosphere his mother and father and his sisters the old family friends so he smiled and was exceedingly genial announced that the w...	43
was on a wednesday afternoon in the latter part of august when a letter came from but instead of the customary communication written in german and the regular weekly of five dollars there was only a brief note written by another hand and explaining that the day before had received a severe bum on both hands due to the ...	43
hands again the thumb on his right hand and the first two fingers on the left had been burned to the bone the latter had been at the first joint the thumb he might save but his hands would be in danger of being by i he added just at the time when i needed the money most too bad too bad when they reached the house and ...	43
lost and recovered a prize what do you mean by not writing me i thought from the way you neglected me that you had made up your not to come at all i did write she replied where to the address you gave me i wrote three days ago that explains it it came too late you should have written me before how have you been oh all ...	43
object to it give it up and come with me down to new york i ll take good care of you i love you and want you as far as your family is concerned you won t have to worry about them any more you can take a nice home for them and furnish it in any style you please wouldn t you like that he paused and s thoughts quickly to ...	43
her i am going to show you what you can be made to look like he had all the purchased articles packed in the trunk and sent to his hotel then he arranged to have come there and dress monday for the trip which began in the afternoon when she came home mrs who was in the kitchen received her with her usual affectionate g...	43
came he said gaily greeting her as she entered the ladies parlor yes she said simply you are my niece he went on i have engaged a room for you near mine i ll call for the key and you go dress when you re ready i ll have the trunk sent to the the train leaves at one o clock l she went to her room and dressed while he ab...	43
out or perhaps both if only you two boys could agree he used to say another thing which disturbed was his father s attitude on the subject of marriage s marriage to be specific never ceased to insist on the fact that ought to get married and that he by was making a big mistake in putting it off all the other children ...	43
go without farewell to her father he was out looking for work until late in the afternoon and before he had returned she had been obliged to leave for the station i will write a note to when i get there she said she kissed her baby over and over will take a better house for us soon she went on he wants us to move the n...	43
it is pathetic during that first year in street when no one was looking often carried about on his shoulders and pinched her soft red cheeks when she got old enough to walk he it was who with a fastened securely under her arms led her patiently around the room until she was able to take a few steps of her own accord wh...	43
a very comfortable of rooms on a side street near the lake and he had it fitted up to suit his taste he figured that living in he could pose as a bachelor he would never need to invite his friends to his rooms there were his offices where he could always be found his clubs and the hotels to his way of thinking the arra...	43
to depend upon her and the feeling had but deepened with the passing of the years on her part had sincerely deeply truly learned to love this man at first when he swept her o e i her feet her soul and used her necessity as a f chain wherewith to bind her to him she was a little doubtful a little afraid of him although ...	43
fairy and giant which kept the little girl wide eyed at last she went so far as to bring her to the apartment when was away visiting his parents and she soon found it possible during his several to do this regularly after that as time went on and she began to know his habits she became more bold although bold is scarc...	43
when she reached the gate she fairly sped up the little walk and into the house where was lying pale quiet and weak but considerably better several neighbors and a middle aged physician were in attendance all of whom looked at her curiously as she dropped beside the child s bed and spoke to her s mind had been made up ...	43
stood there a meditative helpless figure gone she thought at this moment his footsteps sounded on the stairs he came in with his hat pulled low over his broad forehead close to his sandy eyebrows and with his overcoat up closely about his neck he took os the coat without looking at and hung it on the rack then he delib...	43
quite prepared to speak he turned after a time the silvery of the french clock on the mantel striking three and causing him to become aware of pale uncertain still standing as she had stood all this while better go to bed he said at last and fell again to pondering this difficult problem but continued to stand there wi...	43
you and i might as well understand each other he went on i can see how this thing came about it was a piece of foolishness on my part not to have asked you before and made you tell me it was silly for you to conceal it even if you didn t want the child s life mixed with mine you might have known that it couldn t be don...	43
it for months at a time she had never even hinted at its existence and yet her affection for was obviously great it s queer he said she s a peculiar woman one morning was sitting in the parlor reading his paper when he thought he heard something stir he turned and was surprised to see a large blue eye fixed upon him th...	43
was telling on him he was glad to see some one with a strong policy come up and take charge did not seem to mind apparently he and were on better terms than ever before matters might have gone on smoothly enough were it not for the fact that s private life with was not a matter which could be permanently kept under cov...	43
time finding you too who s your she was about to say pretty housekeeper but turned to find gathering up certain articles in the adjoining room and looking dreadfully cleared his throat hopelessly i z i c his sister swept the place with an observing eye it took in the home atmosphere which was both pleasing and suggest...	43
would say oh dear oh dear exclaimed mrs who was the first to hear the story my son my how could he have done it and such a creature i exclaimed emphatically as though the words needed to be to give them any shadow of i went there solely because i thought i could help him continued l i thought when they said he was that...	43
of course i don t know what your relations with her have been returned robert and i m not curious to know but it does look like a bit of injustice all around don t you think unless you intend to marry her this last was put forth as a i might be willing to agree to that too was s reply if anything were to be gained by ...	43
has limited them to a sphere and we are content to note the ludicrous and invariably fatal results which attend any effort on their to depart from their in the case of man however the operation of this theory of has not as yet been so clearly observed the laws governing our social life are not so clearly understood as ...	43
at times that he himself might wish i t he was thoughtful abstracted t g with it seemed to her that he h ad a li if she could only say to him that she was not satisfied with the way she was living and then leave but he himself had p indicated after his discovery of that her feelings on that score could not matter so v...	43
the worry and the where does it all go to people die you hear nothing more from them his wife now she had gone where had her spirit taken its flight yet he continued to hold some strongly convictions he believed there was a hell and that people who would go there how about mrs how about he believed that both had he be...	43
her there was no doubt of that he did not want to marry her could not very well she j knew that her letter said as much you have this thing wrong he went on slowly i don t know what comes over you at times but you don t view the situation right i ve told you before that i can t marry you not now anyhow there are too...	43
stick it out i ve been thinking that we might take a house out in park it s something of a run from the office but i m not much for this apartment life you and would be better off for a yard in that case you might bring your father on to live with us he couldn t do any harm about indeed he might help keep things straig...	43
smile and a manner wholly natural see succeeded in making a most favorable impression she explained to her guests that she had been living on the north side until recently that her husband mr had long wanted to have a home in park that her father and daughter were living here and that l z i c was the child s she said s...	43
to catch a blaze only old newspapers were better and he had of these another evidence of his lord and master s wretched disposition it was a sad world to work in almost every ng was against him still he fought as as he could against waste and extravagance his own were rigid he would wear the same suit of ut down from ...	43
and then he would leave her with this problem troubling her young soul food china her dress anything was apt to be brought back to its and he would leave her to struggle with these dark suggestions of something else back of the superficial appearance of things until she was actually in awe of him she had a way of showi...	43
asked attempting to smile but with a twist to the comers of his mouth he was trying to be nice and to go through a difficult situation gracefully we fellows usually make a fuss about that sort of thing you ought to let your friends know well said feeling the edge of the social blade that was being driven into him i tho...	43
the was obtained from s residence on the north side for several years prior to her supposed marriage was discovered and so the whole story was nicely together it was not the idea of the newspaper editor to be cruel or critical but rather complimentary all the bitter things such as the probable of the suspected of and i...	43
of this chill history could never be undone the wise and they included all his social world and many who were not of it could see just how he had been living the article which accompanied the pictures told how he had followed from to how she had been and distant and that he had to court her a long time to win her con...	43

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