Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty

Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty

Roger Bradley was walking up Broadway. This fact calls sharply for comment, for he had not done it in years; the thoroughfare was intolerable to him. But one of its impingements upon a less blatant avenue had caught him napping and he found himself entangled in a mesh of theatre dribblings, pool-room loungers, wine-touts and homeward bent women of the middle, shopping class. Being there, he scorned to avail himself of the regularly recurring cross streets, but strode along, his straight, trim bulk, his keen, judicial profilea profile that spoke strong of the best traditions of American bloodmarking him for what he was among a crowd not to be matched, in its way, upon the Western Continent. At the second slanting of the great, tawdry lane he bent with it and encountered suddenly a little knot of flustered women just descended from the elevated way that doubled the din and blare of the shrieking city. They were bundle-filled, voluble, dressed by any standards save those of their native city, far beyond their probable means and undoubted station. As they stopped unexpectedly and hesitated, damming the flood of hurrying citizens, Roger halted of necessity and stepped backward, but in avoiding them he bumped heavily against the person behind him. A startled gasp, something soft against his shoulder, the sharp edge of a[12] projecting hat, told him that this person was a woman, and stepping sidewise into the shelter of a neighbouring news-stall, he raised his hat with a courtesy alien to the place and hour. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 26277
Author: Bacon, Josephine Daskam
Release Date: Aug 12, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Williams, J. Scott (John Scott), 1877-1975