The Novels Stories And Sketches Of F Hopkinson Smith Kennedy Square

Author : Francis Hopkinson Smith
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781458930491
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Novels, Stories and Sketches of F Hopkinson Smith written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... AT the offices of Philip Colton and Co., just off Wall Street, an unusual stir was apparent--an air of expectancy seemed to pervade everything. The cashier had arrived at his desk half an hour earlier than usual, and so had the stock clerk and the two bookkeepers. This had been in accordance with Mr. Colton's instructions the night before, and they had been carried out to the minute. The papers in the big copper loan, he had told the stock clerk, were to be signed at half-past eleven o'clock the next morning, and he wanted all the business of the preceding day cleaned up and out of the way before the new deal went through. This accomplished, he said to himself, Mr. Eggleston would be able to retire a part if not all of his special capital, and his dear Madeleine, to quote a morning journal, find a place by the side of " one of the bright young financiers of our time." Mr. Eggleston, in tan-colored waiscoat, white gaiters, and shiny silk hat, a gold-headed cane in one hand--the embodiment of a prosperous man of affairs--also arrived half an hour earlier: ten o'clock, really, an event that caused some astonishment, for not twice in the whole year had the special partner reached his son's office so early in the day. Young Eggleston reached his desk a few minutes after his father. His dress was as costly as his progenitor's, but a trifle more insistent. The waistcoat was speckled with red; the scarf a brilliant scarlet decorated with a horseshoe set in diamonds, and the shoes patent leather. He was one size smaller than his father and had one tenth of his brains. With regard to every other measurement, however, there was not the slightest doubt but that in a few years he would equal his distinguished father's outlines, a fact already...