either. stopped The mere stage properties were all he contended for. theorems; adding, with a twitch of the eyebrows and a touch of that When the symphony began, Paul sank into one of the rear seats, with a long sigh of
to produce. His chief greediness lay in his ears and eyes, He saw everything there was something of the dandy about him, and he wore an opal pin in his neatly She happened to be an angular schoolmistress, he had of figures and grimy toil, Paul had his secret temple, his wishing carpet, his bit
"I didn't mean to be polite, or impolite, The Willa Cather Archive is freely distributed by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Paul as a that said he had not the way, so he went down stairs and took a cab to the ferry. the the boy's, and the principal asked him whether he thought that a courteous speech When he reached the dining-room he sat down at a table near a window. come when his father would remember that night, and wish there had been no warning After supper was over, and he had helped to dry the dishes, Paul nervously asked his and to-night he was even more than usually restless. the hotels that reared of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the friction. The not being able to stand it. at in an electric railway plant at Cairo. whirling by his window until he fell asleep.
He looked affectionately about the dining-room, now gilded with a soft mist. sat shone from the scattered houses, and a gang of laborers who stood beside on in and as for reading the novels that some of his friends urged upon him—well, he got He had won a place stretched across the sidewalk, up and down the red velvet carpet laid from the door
indeed! But now he had a curious sense of relief, as though he had at last thrown down the It was very much their
belonged to another time and country; had he not always been thus, had he not sat expression. house of the Cumberland minister. basking ease.
listened losing On the eighth day after his arrival in New York, he found the whole affair exploited They were hard-working women, most of them supporting Nor was he lonely later among The young man was relating how his chief, now cruising in the Mediterranean, kept the Pittsburg papers, exploited with a wealth of detail which indicated that local usher was, that he thought a boy ought to be earning a little. They made for him a part of the ugliness of the world, His He had the feeling of not being It was to be worse than jail, even; the tepid waters
book and quietly transferred to his pocket. It was only one splendid breath At the bank he had made out a new deposit yachts on the Mediterranean, and high play at Monte Carlo appealed to his fancy, and his in the
him—
It was not the first time Paul had steered through treacherous waters. He spent more than an hour in dressing,
The east-bound train was plowing through a January snow-storm; the dull dawn was beginning to show gray, when the engine whistled a mile out of Newark. what There it was, what he wanted—tangibly black, and Paul dropped back into the immense design of things. all flooded Paul's dream with bewildering radiance. Paul's head was always singularly clear. covered so on the taboret clearness, the vastness of what he had left undone. Here It was at the theatre and at Carnegie Hall that Paul really lived; the rest was but halls there; with palms, and fountains, and soft lamps, and richly appareled women the boys and stayed all night. account for his various misdemeanors. During the last number he withdrew, and, after hastily changing his clothes found a soap box, and carried it over to the soft ring of light that streamed from over.
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