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- THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
- William Dean Howells
- JTABLE 5 27 1
- I.
- Bartley laughed. "That's the sort most of us marry."
- II.
- This was at night. In the morning Mrs. Lapham said--
- III.
- Lapham could only venture very modestly, "Hard-wood floors?"
- A little silence followed, and then Mrs Lapham said--
- Then no one spoke again, and she said helplessly--
- IV.
- Corey turned to the latter. "I suppose you've all helped to plan it?"
- V.
- VI.
- Corey laughed. "I wish you'd let me take off MY coat."
- VII.
- The cat seated herself across the room, and asked quietly--
- The Colonel reddened consciously. "I'm not taking him on that basis."
- VIII.
- IX.
- The young man laughed. "Your sister is very satirical, isn't she?"
- Young Corey laughed. "It wasn't exactly cumbered with them."
- Lapham gave a furious snort. "And does that make him any better?"
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- Lily smiled autumnally. "Oh, disgusting!"
- Mrs. Corey let her eyes droop. Then she asked: "Are they well?"
- Her son thought a while. Then he answered with a smile--
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- He came towards her again. "Yes, you. Who else?"
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- Lapham trembled. "I guess you don't want anything, Irene."
- He was silent; then he said desperately--
- XX.
- After a moment Mrs. Lapham asked, "Is it--Rogers?"
- Mrs. Corey hesitated. "Tom thinks we had better not call, just yet."
- XXI.
- He hesitated before he added, "And then--Rogers."
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- He stared at her. "I don't know what you're talking about."
- XXIV.
- Corey was silent. "Is he really in such a bad way?"
- She posted her letter, and he sent his reply in the evening, by hand:--
- T. C.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- End of Project Gutenberg's The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells