[Gutenberg 48621] • Light-Fingered Gentry
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- Authors
- Phillips, David Graham
- Publisher
- Ellott Press
- Tags
- new york (n.y.) -- social life and customs -- fiction , commercial crimes -- fiction , man-woman relationships -- fiction , capitalists and financiers -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9781409705611
- Date
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.53 MB
- Lang
- en
Mr. Phillips has chosen the inside workings of the great insurance companies as his field of battle; the salons of the great Fifth Avenue mansions as the antechambers of his field of intrigue; and the two things which every natural, big man desires, love and success, as the goal of his leading character. The book is full of practical philosophy, which makes it worth careful reading.
Excerpt from Light-Fingered Gentry
How d'ye do, Neva, said he, politely enough, but with look and tone no man addresses to a woman who has for him the slightest sex interest.
How are you, Horace, said she, losing the faint animation her smile had given her face. Somewhat constrainedly, either from coldness or from embarrass ment, she gave him her hand.