日期：2014-09-11 The home of Samuel Griffiths in Lycurgus, New York, a city of some twenty-five thousand inhabitants midwaybetween Utica and Albany. Near the dinner hour and by degrees the family assembling for its customary meal. On this occasion the preparations w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 For the major portion of the return trip to Kansas City, there was nothing to mar the very agreeable illusion underwhich Clyde rested. He sat beside Hortense, who leaned her head against his shoulder. And although Sparser,who had waited for the othe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 The climax of the afternoon was reached, however, when after several more dances and drinks, the small riverand its possibilities was again brought to the attention of all by Hegglund, who, looking out of one of thewindows, suddenly exclaimed: What'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 In connection with the automobile ride suggested and arranged for the following Sunday by Hegglund through his chauffeur friend, a change of plan was announced. The car -- an expensive Packard, no less -- could not be hadfor that day, but must be us... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 True to her promise, the following day Hortense returned to Mr. Rubenstein, and with all the cunning of hernature placed before him, with many reservations, the nature of the dilemma which confronted her. Could she, byany chance, have the coat for o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 As Hortense well knew Clyde was pressing more and more hungrily toward that ultimate condescension on herpart, which, though she would never have admitted it to him, was the privilege of two others. They were nevertogether any more without his insis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 The result of all this on Clyde was to cause him to think more specifically on the problem of the sexes than heever had before, and by no means in any orthodox way. For while he condemned his sister's lover for thusruthlessly deserting her, still he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 For a period of four months at least this was exactly the way it worked out. After meeting her in this fashion, hewas devoting not an inconsiderable portion of his free time to attempting to interest her to the point where shewould take as much inte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 Now trivial as this contact may seem to some, it was of the utmost significance to Clyde. Up to this time he hadnever seen a girl with so much charm who would deign to look at him, or so he imagined. And now he had foundone, and she was pretty and a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-11 The effect of this adventure on Clyde was such as might have been expected in connection with one so new andstrange to such a world as this. In spite of all that deep and urgent curiosity and desire that had eventually ledhim to that place and cause... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 Prepared as Clyde was to dislike all this, so steeped had he been in the moods and maxims antipathetic toanything of its kind, still so innately sensual and romantic was his own disposition and so starved where sex was concerned, that instead of bei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 And so the interesting dinner, with Clyde attending, came to pass. And it was partaken of at Frissell's, as Rattererhad said. And by now Clyde, having come to be on genial terms with all of these youths, was in the gayest ofmoods about it all. Think... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 The thing that most interested Clyde at first was how, if at all, he was to keep the major portion of all this moneyhe was making for himself. For ever since he had been working and earning money, it had been assumed that hewould contribute a fair p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 And so, of all the influences which might have come to Clyde at this time, either as an aid or an injury to hisdevelopment, perhaps the most dangerous for him, considering his temperament, was this same Green-Davidson,than which no more materially a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 And as conditions stood, the extraordinary economic and social inexperience of the Griffiths -- Asa and Elvira-dovetailedall too neatly with his dreams. For neither Asa nor Elvira had the least knowledge of the actualcharacter of the work upon which... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 The imaginative flights of Clyde in connection with all this -- his dreams of what it might mean for him to beconnected with so glorious an institution -- can only be suggested. For his ideas of luxury were in the main soextreme and mistaken and gau... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 The effect of this particular conclusion was to cause Clyde to think harder than ever about himself. And theprincipal result of his thinking was that he must do something for himself and soon. Up to this time the best hehad been able to do was to wo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 One of the things that served to darken Clyde's mood just about the time when he was seeking some practicalsolution for himself, to say nothing of its profoundly disheartening effect on the Griffiths family as a whole, wasthe fact that his sister Es... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 That such a family, thus cursorily presented, might have a different and somewhat peculiar history could well beanticipated, and it would be true. Indeed, this one presented one of those anomalies of psychic and social reflexand motivation such as w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 Dusk -- of a summer night. And the tall walls of the commercial heart of an American city of perhaps 400,000 inhabitants -- such walls as intime may linger as a mere fable. And up the broad street, now comparatively hushed, a little band of six, --... 阅读全文>>