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got no further use for me he me out into the street and to give me to the police if i come to him again s expression changed there was no doubt now that for once was sincere the hate in his eyes and face was give me to the police i ll give him to the police he broke out in a sudden flame at s glance of inspection he th... | 46 |
far as to ask for more than friendship she would he hoped forgive him she could not find a truer friend he would never offend her so again but he must have her friendship or he might do something desperate fortunately for him had a good advocate at court mrs was very lonely and unhappy just then and the plea prevailed ... | 46 |
she said in a low level tone tears of shame standing in her eyes for answer he caught her again then the unexpected happened at that moment turned a of a few paces oflf that shut out the alley from the bench which had selected for a second he paused amazed then as he took in the situation a black look came into his fac... | 46 |
stiff and with a proud dignity which the other might well have now don t be silly said mrs with a little why did you walk in a secluded part of the park with him i thought i could help a friend of mine said mr i suppose no not mr a woman perhaps yes a woman she spoke with a which mrs had never seen in her cousin she sa... | 46 |
going away he was almost the only man in new york that she could call her friend to think of new york without him made her lonely he was in love with mrs she of that she was sure notwithstanding mrs s statement could mrs have treated him badly she had not even cared for her husband so people said would she be cruel to ... | 46 |
think that was her she called herself he was trying with brow to recall exactly i suppose that is the woman you are referring he said suddenly it is you have not had more than one have he laughed pleased to give the subject a lighter tone well this poor creature i used to know in the south when i was a boy when i firs... | 46 |
ever loved in my better than than any one else did her face stop she cried not another word i will not listen release my hand she pulled it from him forcibly and as he began again she with a gesture stopped him no it is impossible i will not listen his face changed as he looked into her face she rose from her seat and ... | 46 |
be sure that the seed he had planted would bear fruit and that would stake something on the chance in this he was not deceived the next day mr to his plan for some days after that there appeared in a certain paper a series of attacks on various lines of property that was by other papers as a strong movement the same pa... | 46 |
eager just then the servant gave him the message saw his countenance fall and his face he turned picked up his hat and slipped out of the door with a step that was almost a as mr passed down the street he knew that he had reached a crisis in his life he went to see but that gentleman was in no mood for everything had g... | 46 |
rich as he and to him both had been much but he knew was in straits and was in some trouble he was glad about but the recollection of clouded his face it was with a pang that he recalled s recent conduct to a pang that one who had always been his friend should have changed so but that was the way of the world this refl... | 46 |
all lay before him it had grown with his success and had kept pace with it in an almost steady since he had set success before him as a goal he was angry with himself to find that he was thinking now of success merely as wealth once he had thought of honor and achievement even of duty he remembered when he had not hesi... | 46 |
unexpected happens so that every word that was spoken was heard distinctly the run on the bank we are not taking to day said the astonished doubtfully smiled well i suppose there is no objection to doing so i have an account in this bank and i wish to add to it i am not afraid of it the gazed at him in blank amazement... | 46 |
they were filled with anguish better than my life i her drew in his breath with a long sigh of relief and of content oh i have no hope went on i gave her every right to doubt it i killed her love i do not blame her it was all my fault i know it now when it is too late it is not too late shook his head without even loo... | 46 |
he does not pretend to be but at least he is not a he is a and a scoundrel declared firmly he is married and his wife is living now he abandoned her and she is insane i know her you know married she paused in wonder his certainty carried conviction with it i have his marriage you have t a sort of passed over her face h... | 46 |
her pretended friend and admirer had once said were worth as much as her home she put them all into a bag together with several large containing papers then she went to a dress closet and began to search through it choosing finally a simple dark street dress by no means one of the a gorgeous robe which had been laid ou... | 46 |
insane folly but what i said just now is true i have never forgotten that i was your wife with his arm supporting her reassured her with comforting words and sustained by his confidence she told him of her folly in trusting of her giving him her of everything can you forgive met she asked after her recital i will never... | 46 |
bowed his assent and retired came in and closed the door behind him he had just thrown his coat on a chair laid his hat on the and was his moustache at the mirror above it when he caught sight in the mirror of had stepped out behind him from the recess and was standing by the table quietly looking at him he gave an exc... | 46 |
you must think you hold a strong hand he said but i have known them to fail bowed no doubt this one will not fail i have taken pains that it shall not and i have other cards which i have not shown you sit down and listen to me and you shall judge for yourself with a muttered oath walked back to his seat but before he d... | 46 |
papers then you will accompany him to his home and get whatever clothes he may require and you will not lose sight of him until you come off with the pilot bowed without a word his eyes snapped if he makes any attempt to or gives you any cause to think he is trying to his agreement you have your instructions bowed agai... | 46 |
half grimly was very ill she had been under a great strain in new york and had finally broken down among other of interest that was that dr the resident physician at was a of asked leave to send for a friend who was a man of large experience and a capital doctor well i should be glad to have him sent for these men here... | 46 |
their best companies and treated him with distinguished favor mrs actually pursued him even mr pale thin and frosty as ever in appearance into something like cordiality when he met him and held out an icy hand as with a wintry smile he congratulated him on his success well we used to think we had the of business abilit... | 46 |
lives here in a lovely old place just outside of town with her old aunt or cousin i had no idea she had such a nice old home we saw her yesterday we met her on the street i remember her i shall go and see her said recalling mrs s speech at mrs s dinner and s revenge i tell you what we will do she invited us to call and... | 46 |
secret i am secretly envious of them i d like to be able to put them down under my heel and make mrs turned and spoke to the old lady she was evidently about to take her leave moved over and for the first time addressed miss i want you to show me about these grounds he said speaking so that both ladies could hear him h... | 46 |
he determined to ascertain one solution of the difficulty lay plain before him he could go away another presented itself but it was preposterous of all the women he knew was the least affected by him in the way that a man she liked him he knew but if he could read women at all and he thought he could she liked him only... | 46 |
other the elder lady spending much of her time up at miss s home among the and flowers of the old place it was a to mrs who frankly confessed that she could only account for it on the ground that mrs wanted to find out how far matters had gone between and miss that girl is a sly she said these learn to be i would not h... | 46 |
the soft of the waves against the boat seemed to be a suited to the of the scene and the lovely form before him clad in soft that set it off the fair face and gentle voice appeared to fill everything with had more than once in the past few weeks considered how he would bring the subject up and what he would say if he e... | 46 |
made up his mind promptly he went up on deck mrs was sitting alone far aft in the shadow her back was ff a um and her i hand was to her eyes he went up to her she did not look up but felt that she knew it was he you must go to her she said yes said i shall i wish you would come oh i wish i could poor little thing i she... | 46 |
already prepared before he came there was much excitement in the place had boasted that he had made a great deal of money in south america the old ideal he claims now said s captain that he owns all of squire s lands he says you knew it was all his when you sold it to them englishmen and that mr the president of the co... | 46 |
have been robbed by persons you know persons who are no friends of yours whom i understand you have influence with and you can help to right matters it will be worth your while to do it she attempted to pass around win her you might as well ij f j x y e to you and i mean to do it i can show you how important it is for... | 46 |
s youth america greeting dawn the poet on the shepherd of the seas sleep to a lady at a spring the old lion the of the seas the bent the message vii contents the needle s eye the closed door the the the listener contradiction the question dead my mother her influence the stranger love an old to the apple trees at even ... | 46 |
through a mountain here and there work st all thine engines cutting oflf a speck i wash their rock foundations under tear from thundering down and crush their fragments into sand thou with thy records and and them of thy might lo not a stone exists from yon black cliff to that small at thy foot but bears my signature ... | 46 |
find within a dew drop s a pool where love may drown no deep nor nook but felt her tender look no secret leafy place but warmed before her face and with her grace the sombre yesterday hath in her presence a brave array and in a night grown gay her purple cloak all careless flung upon the red bud hung and on the forest ... | 46 |
heat of noon wherein each subtle grace of snowy form and radiant flower face like goddess and might greet long hath y nd the main the which she loved are all no more mid violet banks her feet are set silent her fled her train one spot alone of all she loved is left this shaded spring is goddess haunted yet oh do not th... | 46 |
that prayer he is for the maiden fair whom he brought down to shame the bent and still along the way he goes with eyes cast down as in despair and shoulders stooped with weight of woes and lips from which forever flows an prayer the message an ancient came to my hands a tale of love in other lands writ by a master so d... | 46 |
instant moved who served like and like mary loved her influence the tender earth that smiles when kissed by spring the flowers the woods the birds that sing the summer s song her spirit to me bring the meadows cool that breathe their fragrant deep placid pools that little breezes soft springs speak to my heart of her h... | 46 |
boy to your wife the witch before her mirror inquiring how to please her friends the mystery is solved the mirror but her grace her mirror now she sees herself in all men s eyes s a witch and hath such arts her image is in all men s hearts humanity a lover left his new made bride and shot a dove with her mate at her si... | 46 |
and even from the path whenever i think a will be for my own enjoyment i shall b in with my career a period to which i look back now with a pleasure wholly with what i achieved in it which i find due to the friends i made and to the memories i there in a time when i possessed the treasures of youth spirits hope and con... | 46 |
and a finely jaw gave him an unusual face if not one of distinction he was evidently bent on making himself agreeable to me and as he had read an extraordinary amount for a lad of his age and i who had also read some was lonely we had passed a pleasant evening when he mentioned casually a fact which sent my heart down ... | 46 |
more and more he suffered but more and more he grew strong t e father too proud of his son s independence to him by an order which might have been a law to him had nevertheless thrown him on his own resources and cut him down to the lowest figure on which he could live confident that his own opinions would be justified... | 46 |
the one curious thing was that john marvel was studying for the it lent zest to the jokes that were made on this and more or less were made on the law and the the lying down together of the lion and the lamb etc it was a curious the light haired slow saxon and the dark keen jew with his intellectual face and his deep ... | 46 |
spring afternoon we were all under the trees many of us stretched out on the grass i had just saved a game of by driving a ball that brought in three men from the and i was surrounded by quite a group marvel who was as strong as an ox was second on the other nine and had missed the ball as the threw it wildly something... | 46 |
and insult and i have tried to stand it but i will put up with it no longer it is appointed once for a man to die and i can die in no better cause than for my people he was gasping with suppressed emotion and i was beginning gasp also but for a different reason he went on you thou t i was a coward because i was a jew ... | 46 |
and standing on a bench i told them what i had said to and how i felt i owed him a public apology not for one insult but for a hundred there was a silence for a second and then such a cheer broke out as by the fight i never got any other time in my cheers for cheers for marvel and even cheers for me and then a youth w... | 46 |
alone there is your chance yes this is the first time you have seen her now stop and play ball or pay up yes supper for the crowd chicken and to end with so they me one and all done i said i will do it now you have never seen her before never i was arranging my tie and brushing my hair you swear it but i hurried out of... | 46 |
said thinking of and then as her expression did not change i fired a shot that i meant to tell would do that sort of thing shall tell them to this she made no reply she only look pretty but it often came back to me afterward how calmly and quite as a matter of course she suggested my concealing the accident and i wonde... | 46 |
me on my degree he got much fuller than i got that and his real grief and shame were among the heaviest burdens i had to bear miss return home the next afternoon after the delivery of the and i heard that went off on the same train with her i expected some sympathy from the girl for whom my devotion had cost me so much... | 46 |
as well as of the best club in town was welcomed in the game of the best fellows by john marvel assistant in town and was invited out so much that i really had no time to do much else than enjoy my social success but the chief of the many proofs i had was my restoration to s favor since i was become a sort of toast wit... | 46 |
and i told her up and down that if she would marry me i would win i shall never forget the picture as she stood by the heavy marble mantel in her father s drawing room tall and and very handsome she might have been marble herself like the mantel she was so cold and i suddenly aroused by the shock was on fire with resol... | 46 |
party to mine but i have reason to believe that when i was in politics he himself freely and by the committed other crimes against the purity of the on which declare all representative government is founded one of my ardent friends once informed me that he thought i ought not to allow to wear that it was insulting me ... | 46 |
i said look at yes i m and he was i am going away to night well i m width you i ain stay by myself after you and is gone no you can t do that i don t know yet exactly where i am going i have not yet decided i am going west to a big city s where i want to go interrupted and when i get settled i ll send for i m going ... | 46 |
and more embarrassed and hot with every word have you any money he asked shortly not a cent well i have none to lend you you need not count on me i would advise but i did not wait for him to finish i had got hold of myself and was self possessed enough now i did not ask you to lend me any money either i said myself up... | 46 |
the same occupation as ourselves her back was toward us but her figure was straight and and her motions easy and full of spring the sight of the young lady so fresh and cool with the morning sun shining on a thick of shining hair quite revived me i drew near to get a good look at her and also to be within shot of a cha... | 46 |
though you were mounting a horse i added seeing her hesitate and without giving her time to think i stooped and lifted her to the step as she sprang up the door opened and a lady richly dressed and with several diamond rings on came out on the platform she gazed on the little group with astonishment why what is this wh... | 46 |
i said yes i will and with another bow and a side look at who was now growling he let himself in at the door and i passed on forward y by ix i pitch my tent when a later my small charges were brought back to their mother to whom i had explained their absence it was by the young lady herself and i never saw a more grate... | 46 |
he must have pictured it with its and the procession of tired travellers that streamed in through the black to meet worn with wan smiles on their tired faces or to look anxiously and in vain for friends who had not come or else who had come and gone and outside the roar of the current that swept through the black stree... | 46 |
he came what a fine lot o children you have they ought to keep you in and wood i wish i had some as big as that but mine are all little my two eldest died of scarlet fever two years ago they said she had come out and unlocked the door was now turning away i think your man had to take the upstairs front room but he didn... | 46 |
s also i have just come this appeared to relieve one of them at least but the other said oh but we are not going to the street car we don t ride in street cars yes it is so said the younger one people catch all sorts of diseases on the car by i pitch my tent thinking them rather airy i was about to hand the bundle back... | 46 |
then i ve got to drop by the theatre and the new play a roast so i ll hardly have time to roast those and though i d like to do it to teach them not to refuse me round trip passes next time i ask for them i tell you what you do he added modestly you write it up you say you have written for the press oh i yes very oft... | 46 |
the writing of which i had had a hand and it cost me many a dark hour of sad y by a new girl this is how the young lady heard of it miss had been at home but an hour or two and had only had time to change her travelling costume for a suit of light blue with a blue hat to match which was very becoming to her and order t... | 46 |
s a too he says he is but you mustn t tell that he told me in the confidence well the count s to go as of the of what s the name of that old king or emperor or whatever he was that conquered that country you know what i mean by a new girl no indeed i do not and i haven t the least idea what you are talking about oh... | 46 |
t decided yet what to give it to oh i you ought to see the doctor he s the of the gay he came to see me the other day it almost made me die laughing you know he s dead in love with your aunt i used to think it was you but pa says i m always thinking everybody is in love with you even the count but he however i ll tel... | 46 |
infinite numbers the on which the bone and muscle of the present race by of cattle in r are built up so the present big race of the wealthy live on the class of the poor the summer before she had met the writer of these articles and he had made an impression on her which had not been she had not her feelings to ascerta... | 46 |
t have fancied it next second the door burst open and in rushed with a cry why how did you slipped out and ran away i you did not come and i could not stay when the emotion of the first greeting was over mr under the strong sense of what he deemed his duty to the child and also to the dear dead which had led him at f... | 46 |
ask for it and tell them i am your daughter and they let me have it at once oh said her father laughing so that is the way you buy things is it no wonder you have plenty well you d better come to me and ask for what you want i think the other is the way and as you say you like to give it to me i don t see that it makes... | 46 |
was too humorous to admit a serious feeling for him though she had gotten him called to be one of dr s by john marvel assistant had happened was that the girl who had only in the lilies and fed on the roses of life had suddenly been dropped in an out of the way comer in a country neighborhood in an old state where ther... | 46 |
the little where john marvel lived he had food for thought when saw john marvel a few days later she told him of her conversation and the speech she had made to his friend you know said john that he is rich or could be if he chose to go home his father is very rich he is a new jew to me said he is quite different from ... | 46 |
work of his friend john marvel as a proof of his theory while at first the broad shouldered yoimg clergyman fled from her presence with a which was it was not long before he appeared to have himself sufficiently against her shafts of to be able to her presence and before a great while had passed her friends began to he... | 46 |
been too late and if the young man had not had such a potent influence behind him the doctor might have suggested some in the way of through the arrangements he had proposed but though mrs and her brother in law were understood to have had some differences over certain business by john marvel assistant matters she was ... | 46 |
no count no of course not where did you get such an idea he lighted his cigar with a look of relief put it in his mouth and sat back in his chair don t let your aunt go and make a fool of you she is a very good business woman but you know she is not exactly solomon and she is mad about titles when you marry marry a ma... | 46 |
was not wholly pleasant and then with a sweeping motion of her hand she pushed her chair back and as she arose from the table said i wish i knew what is right that moment a new resolution entered her mind and ringing the bell for the servant she ordered her carriage by xiv miss seeks work she drove first to dr s church... | 46 |
year out why they have new hats every year the i mean the same kind of hat tall and short stout and thin slim or they all wear the same horrible round hats i can t bear to look at them i vow i d give them all a different hat for christmas oh my dear you can t do that you would spoil them and it s against the you mus... | 46 |
marry him oh i that s different you want to make me put up and then make my bet for me i tell you what i ll bet that she s the only girl i know i wouldn t ask that that may be now i tell you what i ll that you want a ring the bell that s a certainty too laughed his friend and they turned and sank wearily in deep chair... | 46 |
do she was handling a garment softly yes my sister does beautiful work and i used to by miss seeks work do pretty well too but i am troubled a little with my eyes lately the light isn t very good at night and the gas is so expensive i don t see quite as well as i used to do how much can you do asked her who had been m... | 46 |
in this case the angel of the flaming sword she had higher for miss starting i had less than forty dollars left and fifteen of that was borrowed next day by a fellow named who occupied the big front room adjoining my little back hall room and who had forgotten to draw any money out of bank he said but would return it t... | 46 |
i was standing near her i turned and asked her in an can you tell me whose funeral this is no i cannot she said so sharply that i took a good look at her as she stood trying to button a tight glove i thought perhaps you knew as they are your next door neighbors well i do not it s no concern of mine she said shortly she... | 46 |
s withered breast the children dying for food staggering along the streets seeking work in vain while wealth in a glittering flood poured through the streets in which they perished this bitter knowledge i came to learn day after day till i grew almost to hate mankind the next step b war against society not all who it h... | 46 |
the least shade surprised but having handed her in i was afraid of embarrassing her and was away and passing on when she thanked me again very graciously again i lifted my hat and again got a look into her deep eyes as the carriage rolled off she was leaning back in it and i felt her eyes upon me from under the shade o... | 46 |
at them he sang enough to be though his voice was like his eye hard and cold and he used to sing with miss the method by which according to a young jew named who lived in the house he paid his board i never knew how he acquired his information but he was positive i said i could pay my board in vith a little song now i... | 46 |
from i had allowed the habit to drop into and later during my first years at the bar i had been gradually dropping it altogether my conscience however was never quite easy about it my mother used to say that the promise as to training up a child in the way he should go was not to be fulfilled in youth but in age and as... | 46 |
have he said in addition to the notable work already carried on through my assistant in by the shadow of sham the work of st s chapel with success thb work has reached and i am glad to be able to say is reaching more than ever before the great ignorant class that in our midst and a tendency to that b most disturbing th... | 46 |
that those conditions are a bent i have never quite got over though i was later drawn back to a more point of view than under the hatred of sham and the spur of want i was driven to occupy for some time they have no traditions and no they know no standard but wealth and possess no ability to display it but through para... | 46 |
all sorts of schemes used to present themselves to me to my pocket one was to go out as a on the streets clean bricks or do anything i was not lazy i would have walked around the world for a case i do not think i was ashamed of it for i knew it was respectable but i was afraid some one i knew might pass by i was afraid... | 46 |
the eager attendants who rushed forward to take their coats and the leader asked them casually who was in to night the count s here i think sir said one whom they called the count s him again said the young leader and he swore to me he d never let him have another cent with oaths enough to damn him d per than he will b... | 46 |
instantly recognized for sympathy she turned half away and said nothing and i stood silent watching her for her face must once have been almost beautiful though it was now sadly and an ugly across her eye and cheek as if it might have come from the of a made that side drawn and distorted do you want money she slowly sh... | 46 |
had no one to blame but myself a fact i was just b to face when i walked out of the house i was in a rather low state of mind i felt that it was the last day when i could make any to being a gentleman i had been slipping down down and now i was very near the bottom so i wandered on in the street with at my heels and m... | 46 |
was bowing his to her while she was trying to hold on to him i don t think you are nice a bit i heard her say as they came up to me you have not taken the least notice of me to night this he evidently for she and smiled up at him well then til excuse you this but you needn t be running after her she won t i did not hea... | 46 |
told their simplicity and warmed my heart the father and mother w ere evidently pleased with their daughter s young man for the mother constantly rallied the daughter about and about her drawing the father in with sly looks and knowing of her head and occasionally glancing at me to see if i too took in the situation a... | 46 |
noiselessly withdrew and closed the door when he was gone i was conscious of a feeling of intense relief and also of intense a feeling i had never had for but one man before a feeling which x never got rid of one evening a little later i missed he usually came home even when he strayed off which was not often unless a... | 46 |
and hurried down the stairs wondering when the blow was to fall the afternoon following my surprise of the conference in s back room there was a knock at my by john marvel assistant door and walked into my office i was surprised to see what a man of fashion air he had he appeared really glad to see me and was so cordia... | 46 |
in a part of the town on the working people s section which fortunately was not far from where we got off the car also fortunately we found him at home he was a slim young fellow with a quiet manner and a clean cut face lighted by a pair of frank blue eyes said my conductor here s a friend of mine who wants a little up... | 46 |
your dog s a good he s a can whip any dog i ever saw i never fought him but i had a negro boy who used to take him off till i stopped him well i ll find that is i ll find where he went i thanked him and strolled over across town to try to get a glimpse of the angel of the lost children i saw her in a carriage with anot... | 46 |
would soon be i out and that i would look after his case and see that he got justice yes sir that b what i want i don t ax but how did you get here i demanded and even in his misery i could not help being amused to see his countenance fall fetched me here in de wagon he said i know that i mean for what well say capta... | 46 |
gate and it had to on him accidentally and being very heavy had broken his neck i had given up for lost and was in a very low state of mind in which with me deeply though possibly for a different reason he declared that we had lost a dog as could win a ten dollar bill any day he could get a man to put it up cap n you o... | 46 |
fact that this was the customary lease and that a principle was involved which brought mr into the case as he stated for a who was the largest landlord in the city and it was the fact that miss had recommended me and that was in the case that made me put forth all my powers on it on the stand the agent who it appeared ... | 46 |
poor what a world we should by the preacher it would be filled with and dead beats i declared the idea enterprise would cease a dead would result and the industrious and would be the prey of the worthless and the idle not if all men could attain the ideal no but there is just the rub they cannot you leave out human na... | 46 |
sentences spread their wings and sailed out with monotonous regularity and the solemn air of a duty performed there was no conversation with the hostess only as i observed from my of an exchange of compliments and flattery most of the appeared either to be very intimate or not to know each other at all and when they c... | 46 |
group and suddenly broke in on our hostess s ah i should think you would feel rather lonely up here and would miss all your old friends said mrs sweetly turning her eyes toward the door the girl lifted her head and turned to the other lady not at all you know lots of people call at big houses mrs just because they are... | 46 |
they are out of work they are all ordered out or soon will be papa says poor things i i have been to day to see a poor family out of of course they are out of they work that s why ihey are and now they are talking of a general strike i as if they hadn t had strikes enough i shall cut down my that s what i shall do aunt... | 46 |
good fortune to meet miss i said i wanted to add by mrs that i hoped to have yet better fortune hereafter but i did not perhaps it was to save me embarrassment that miss said mr and i teach in the same sunday school yes about the she bears i thinking of one at the moment miss laughed i have been trying to help your lit... | 46 |
you very well and i know him to be one of the best men in the world i know that he supported that poor family out of his own small income and when they were turned out of their house fed them until he could get the father some by i f q i v perhaps you are the man yourself she added by by mrs work to do he was not an bu... | 46 |
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