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      The World Of Chance

      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

      

      

      

       The World Of Chance, W. D. Howells

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849657567

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

       [email protected]

      

      

      

      CONTENTS:

       I. 1

       II. 4

       III. 7

       IV. 10

       V. 14

       VI. 17

       VII. 21

       VIII. 24

       IX. 30

       X. 36

       XI. 39

       XII. 43

       XIII. 48

       XIV. 53

       XV. 57

       XVI. 65

       XVII. 70

       XVIII. 76

       XIX. 80

       XX. 84

       XXI. 90

       XXII. 94

       XXIII. 99

       XXIV. 104

       XXV. 110

       XXVI. 116

       XXVII. 120

       XXVIII. 124

       XXIX. 129

       XXX. 132

       XXXI. 139

       XXXII. 144

       XXXIII. 147

       XXXIV. 153

       XXXV. 160

       XXXVI. 166

       XXXVII. 171

       XXXVIII. 177

       XXXIX. 180

       XL. 184

       XLI. 188

       XLII. 191

       XLIII. 196

       XLIV. 201

       XLV. 205

      I.

      From the club where the farewell dinner was given him, Ray went to the depot of the East & West Railroad with a friend of his own age, and they walked up and down the platform talking of their lives and their loves, as young men do, till they both at once found themselves suddenly very drowsy. They each pretended not to be so; his friend made a show of not meaning to leave him till the through express should come along at two o'clock and pick up the sleeping-car waiting for it on the side track; and Ray feigned that he had no desire to turn in, but would much rather keep walking and talking.

      They got rid of each other at last, and Ray hurried aboard his sleeper, and plunged into his berth as soon as he could get his coat and boots off. Then he found himself very wakeful. The soporific first effect of the champagne had passed, but it still sent the blood thumping in his neck and pounding in his ears as he lay smiling and thinking of the honor that had been done him, and the affection that had been shown him by his fellow-townsmen. In the reflected light of these the future stretched brightly before him. He scarcely felt it a hardship any more that he should be forced to leave Midland by the business change which had thrown him out of his place on the Midland Echo, and he certainly did not envy the friend who had just parted from him, and who was going to remain with the new owners. His mind kept, in spite of him, a sort of grudge toward the Hanks Brothers who had bought the paper, and who had thought they must reduce the editorial force as a first step towards making the property pay. He could not say that they had treated him unfairly or unkindly; they had been very frank and very considerate with him; but he could not conceal from himself the probability that if they had

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