... Boulevards.
Notwithstanding the descriptions I had
CHAPTER I.
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... gate-keeper, and thus weeks and
months passed away, until one day the keeper was sure he smelt brandy, and [Pg
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LIFE AND BUSINESS ... in the far west would blush. I saw
men in open day, in the open walk, which was crowded with women as well as [Pg
37]men, commit nuisances of a kind I need not particularize...
... Every newspaper in
California, for example, breaks the law
every day when it prints a news item
without appending the name of the writer,
and probably we are all of us breaking
laws of which we never ... done wrong. Wherever
wrong has been done, the guilt is with
some individual and not with the
corporation as a whole. Find out who that
individual is and let him answer to the
law, b...
... identify you with any views of
my own advocated in it.
The special Darwinian hypothesis,
however, is beset with certain scientific
difficulties, which must by no means be
ignored, and some of which, ... difficulties.—Fresh-water
fishes.—Forms common to Africa and
India; to Africa and South America; to
China and Australia; to North America
and China; to New Zealand and South...
... business he knew was the cigar business. With the assistance of a few friends he was able to start a
retail cigar-store at what was then 708 Broadway. It was below Eighth Street and, whether by accident ... passion began when he was a poor boy
staring wistfully at portals out of which he was kept by the want of a few pence. I think when he first saw a
theater he clapped his hand to his...
... "Because I want to
see, to know, to learn. And when I have
learned and seen and known, I want other
people to see and to learn and to know. I
want to write it all down, all the vast
palpitating ... but not now."
She had risen and was gathering up her
wraps. " ;And you," she said, "why are you
going to America?"
"Why?" he answered. "Beca...
... they were busy with domestic
squabbles. They had kept this up for
centuries and were at it when the settlers
landed at Jamestown and later when the
Mayflower came to Plymouth Rock. Yet,
with ... not without the noble (and ignoble)
qualities which have characterized the
tribe of man since the world began.
America, in common with other countries,
lay dying. But we do want something t...
... horizontal
features—wide brows, wide cheek-
bone, wide nose, wide mouth, wide
chin, wide jaw—stopped to shake
hands most enthusiastically with his
caller without removing his padded
glove.
“What’s the good news, ... something about which he was
entirely posted.
He was good to look at, was Bobby,
with his clean-cut figure and his
clean-cut face and his clean, blue
eyes and clean comp...
... tavern-
stand, and well to make a long story
short, then I got married. Yes," said
Lapham, with pride, "I married the
school-teacher. We did pretty well with
the hotel, and my wife she was ... That paint
was like my own blood to me. To have
anybody else concerned in it was like
well, I don't know what. I saw it was the
thing to do; but I tried to fight it off, and I...
... Middle West, not far from the town
of Ashton. Brill College was a fine place,
and the Rovers knew they would like it as
soon as they saw it. With them went their
old-time school chum, Songbird Powell,
already ... Tom was hit on the head by
a wooden footstool thrown by Pelter, and
knocked unconscious. Josiah Crabtree
tried to escape from a garret window by
means of a rope made of a...