Category: Novels
The Managing Editor of the _News-Record_ turned slowly in his chair until his broad chest was full-front toward the young candidate for the staff. He lowered his florid face slowly until his double chin swelled out over his low “stick-up” collar. Then he gradually raised his e...
“It may not be if I am free--free to meet every situation as it arises, with no responsibility for others resting upon me in the decision. If I had a wife, how could I be free?...
3. Chapter 3“They are not mates. The other girl is of a different sort. She’s more used to this kind of life, at least to poverty. I fancy Miss Black-Hair looks on it as a lark. But she’ll...
12. Chapter 12“I know it will not be in a church with ushers and bridesmaids and a crowd gaping at us. I suppose there is a public side to marriage since the state makes one enter into a form...
4. Chapter 4He had never been gregarious. Thus far he had not had a single intimate friend, man or woman. He knew many people and knew them well. They liked him and some of them sought his...
14. Chapter 14“Listen, dear.” He took her hand and drew her arms more closely about his neck. “Suppose that the lines were drawn--as they may be any day. Suppose that we had to choose, with a...
6. Chapter 6“What you said made me want to drink it,” she said to Howard. “I was glad to hear your lecture on the weather. I had never thought of it before, but New York really has a fine c...
1. Chapter 1The Managing Editor of the _News-Record_ turned slowly in his chair until his broad chest was full-front toward the young candidate for the staff. He lowered his florid face slo...
8. Chapter 8“Did he? I’m surprised at his having so much sense. For, if you’ll forgive me, I don’t think Teddy will ever set New York on fire--at least, he’s--well, he has the makings of an...
13. Chapter 13Marian pushed herself closer against him and presently said dreamily: “So much happiness, such utter happiness which no one, nothing can take away. I wonder when and how the fir...
10. Chapter 10Mrs. Carnarvon’s opinion of the _News-Record_ and its recent performances fairly represented that of the fashionable and the very rich. They read it, as they never did before, b...
2. Chapter 2“Will you take the train that leaves at eleven tonight and get us the story--if it is not a ‘fake,’ as I strongly suspect. Telegraph your story if there is not time for you to g...
11. Chapter 11Segur’s eye caught an item that suggested an editorial paragraph. He sat at Howard’s desk, thought a moment, scrawled half a dozen lines in a large ragged hand on a sheet of rul...
5. Chapter 5“With this little candle? No, no, dear--_my_ dear. You will be a great man. You will not forget; but you will go on and do the things that I’m afraid I didn’t help, maybe hinder...
9. Chapter 9Three weeks later Howard became editor-in-chief of the _News-Record_. His salary was fifteen thousand a year; and Stokely and Coulter, acting upon Malcolm’s advice, gave him a “...
15. Chapter 15“Not even--” he said with a faint, sad answering smile. “If you only knew how hard I worked preparing myself to be able to get you when you came; if you only, only knew how life...