A Woman Ventures: A Novel

A Woman Ventures: A Novel

For twenty-one years he had been an assistant secretary in the Department of State at Washingtona rather conspicuous position, with a salary of four thousand a year. Influential relatives representing Massachusetts in the House or in the Senate, and often in both, had enabled him to persist through changes of administration and of party control, and to prevail against the pull of many an unplaced patriot. Perhaps he might have been a person of consequence had he exercised his talents in some less insidiously lazy occupation. He had begun well at the law; but in return for valuable local services to the party, he got the offer of this political office, and, in what he came to regard as a fatal moment, he accepted it. His wifehe had just marriedsaid that he was going in for a diplomatic career. He faintly hoped so himself, but the warnings of his common sense were[2] soon verified. Diplomatic career proved to be a sonorous name for a decent burial of energy and prospects. He had drawn his salary year after year. He had gone languidly through his brief daily routine at the Department. He had been mildly fluttered at each Presidential election, and again after each inauguration. He had indulged in futile impulses to self-resurrection, in severe attacks of despondency. Then, at thirty-seven, he had grasped the truththat he would remain an assistant secretary to the end of his days. Thenceforth aspirations and depressions had ceased, and his life had set to a cynical sourness. He read, he sneered, he ate, and slept. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67130
Author: Phillips, David Graham
Release Date: Jan 9, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Grossett & Dunlap
Publication Date: 1902
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Hurlbut, William J. (William James), 1883-1957