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The pretender: A story of the Latin Quarter
With this reflexion I let myself collapse into a padded chair of transcendent comfort, lit a cigarette and inspected once more the amazing bank-book. Since I had seen it last several credit entries had been madeover twenty thousand dollars; and in the meantime, dawdling and dreaming in the woods of Maine, all I had managed to squander was a paltry thousand. Being a man of imagination I sought for a simile. As I sat there by the favourite window of my favourite club I could see great snowflakes falling in the quiet square, and at that moment it seemed to me that I too was standing under a snowfall, a snowfall of dollars steadily banking me about. For a moment I revelled in the charming vision, then like a flash it changed. Now I could see two figures locked in Homeric combat. Like a serene over-soul I watched them, I, philosopher, life-critic; for was not one of them James H. Madden, a man of affairs, the other, J. Horace Madden, dilettante and dreamer.... Look! from that clutter of stale snow a form springs triumphant. Hurrah! It is the near-poet, the man on the side of the angels. And so rejoiced was I at[2] this issue that I regarded the little bank-book almost resentfully. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 68849
Author: Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
Release Date: Aug 27, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
Publication Date: 1914
Publisher Country: United States
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