A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4

Fiction & Literature, Classics
Cover of the book A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 by William Dean Howells, Release Date: November 27, 2011
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: William Dean Howells ISBN: 9782819947912
Publisher: Release Date: November 27, 2011 Publication: November 27, 2011
Imprint: pubOne.info Language: English
Author: William Dean Howells
ISBN: 9782819947912
Publisher: Release Date: November 27, 2011
Publication: November 27, 2011
Imprint: pubOne.info
Language: English
Not long after Lent, Fulkerson set before Dryfoos one day his scheme for a dinner in celebration of the success of 'Every Other Week. ' Dryfoos had never meddled in any manner with the conduct of the periodical; but Fulkerson easily saw that he was proud of his relation to it, and he proceeded upon the theory that he would be willing to have this relation known: On the days when he had been lucky in stocks, he was apt to drop in at the office on Eleventh Street, on his way up-town, and listen to Fulkerson's talk. He was on good enough terms with March, who revised his first impressions of the man, but they had not much to say to each other, and it seemed to March that Dryfoos was even a little afraid of him, as of a piece of mechanism he had acquired, but did not quite understand; he left the working of it to Fulkerson, who no doubt bragged of it sufficiently. The old man seemed to have as little to say to his son; he shut himself up with Fulkerson, where the others could hear the manager begin and go on with an unstinted flow of talk about 'Every Other Week; ' for Fulkerson never talked of anything else if he could help it, and was always bringing the conversation back to it if it strayed
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Not long after Lent, Fulkerson set before Dryfoos one day his scheme for a dinner in celebration of the success of 'Every Other Week. ' Dryfoos had never meddled in any manner with the conduct of the periodical; but Fulkerson easily saw that he was proud of his relation to it, and he proceeded upon the theory that he would be willing to have this relation known: On the days when he had been lucky in stocks, he was apt to drop in at the office on Eleventh Street, on his way up-town, and listen to Fulkerson's talk. He was on good enough terms with March, who revised his first impressions of the man, but they had not much to say to each other, and it seemed to March that Dryfoos was even a little afraid of him, as of a piece of mechanism he had acquired, but did not quite understand; he left the working of it to Fulkerson, who no doubt bragged of it sufficiently. The old man seemed to have as little to say to his son; he shut himself up with Fulkerson, where the others could hear the manager begin and go on with an unstinted flow of talk about 'Every Other Week; ' for Fulkerson never talked of anything else if he could help it, and was always bringing the conversation back to it if it strayed

More books from Release Date: November 27, 2011

Cover of the book Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book Danger in Deep Space by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book Turn About Eleanor by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book The Hungry Stones and Other Stories by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book There Are Crimes and Crimes by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book A Lecture on the Study of History by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book A Child's Garden of Verses by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book The Slave of Silence by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book Penelope's Postscripts by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners by William Dean Howells
Cover of the book The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake Bessie King in Summer Camp by William Dean Howells
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy