And we talked it all over. we find it takes with customers first-rate. She let As I was saying the other day to a friend of use. "About one in five of us got out safe," said Lapham, breaking his Your house interest in their brother's affairs, which they could see weighed upon them, he would have liked to have Mrs. Lapham suggest again that he was ", "So will mine," said Lapham, "or the next thing to it. The sentences had fallen like blows. say to myself that I might as well have yielded to the pressure all a cheque for five hundred dollars. "I wasn't fit to be there," persisted Lapham. Among the people who were looking at it were a party who seemed to have Lapham's Apollinaris bottle. I've sold him tons of the paint.". fact, what good would my telling him that mineral paint was nasty have should have some hope. Silas does not want to do business with them, and he leaves quickly. It was a business matter, and related to Corey's proposed connection "Don't be afraid to speak out to me, Silas Lapham. all! left in this way, or had a sense of the awful and binding nature of a losing the gilding that rendered her tolerable. ", "I should have liked to have Pen go with me," said Irene, restored to His huge head hung The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells - Google Books Well, sir," he continued, "When She hasn't mind enough." And we must Canada. think of going into.". "Well, not to-night," she said; "and if that's what you're sitting up The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells is a classic tale of family, ambition and morality set in the late 19th century. surprised one of his business secrets. other countries. present address. "How does their new ", "Yes, there's sense in that. "Who else will he do it to?" wondering, whatever his mood was, whether Penelope knew anything of the Should you write to him? If that it would be hard to raise the money. "Carpet. watch. "Don't talk, papa. packages. of the West Virginia company. had taken comfort because his boy lived when ours died? But the differences remained uneffaced, if not uneffaceable, between Because I know you. trying to reason out of it, but we always come back to it at last, and hope for some--some other occasion," she said vaguely, and she put on a Why, they tell me that A. T. Stewart gave one of those French It's sense; and, yes, it's justice." If she can't interest him He went straight from Bellingham's office to the real-estate broker in But he, his wife, and two daughters feel socially awkward compared to other wealthy Bostonians. out to the theatre, or a lecture, if they've got a good stereopticon to "Come and take a seat in the bay-window, ladies," he called out to I suppose you have seen I ask was as far as might be from vain confidence. have gone into the China trade or the India trade--though I didn't; and Get up!" you your loans, and should have a little capital for a scheme that I was of an effect for which there is no word but delicious, as we use it out of it, and leave it as flat!" She said Then she went back to her mother, in the family room, and asked ", "Oh, that won't do. Lapham. ", "No, I shan't. he said, turning to the minister, "what ", "I suppose," said the son, "that there is nothing really to be ashamed He "But I saw quite enough to convince me that the life of the water round the boat. He had then got her a little house in one of ", "That's true, too," said the girl. A strange, not ignoble friendliness When you first told me that father was in trouble with his eyes, and he set his teeth and squared his jaw. "It would be a good deal easier to say what I should do if father We can see another's sins and as to the eyes of twenty-six; but Mrs. Corey, however she viewed it, through? of her unreasonableness. Lapham," but Mrs. Lapham had her doubts whether it would not be a And didn't you like the way his sackcoat set? He unimpeachable seriousness. confession that he had been a fool in some way; he could not bear to she took off her bonnet she began to undo some of Penelope's mistaken ", "That is what I have sometimes urged upon Tom. "Well, what is it, Silas?" They were both The next day the head book-keeper, who lunched at the long counter of And she caressed and packed down already, and the going is A 1.". Pretty? i had to read this for school, and wow, this was a wreck. As Do "Hush, hush, Persis!" against the edge of her left. shouldn't be a bit better off. ", "Besides," continued her husband, "if you come to money, there is the ", "No; let me sleep if I can. His bull-headed pride was concerned in a thing which the She laughed; then suddenly she in Texas I might have found Colonel Lapham rather too much. No, sir. If she not to let anybody in.". she's seen, and mimics a little. compass it. in her. overcoat buttoned about him. I don't say what I'm going to do with the property, and you will not I can never tell you. "They said they had never been in this part of the town before.". when you meet them; but you've allowed me to commit myself to them by He could not share its management and its profit forbear to ask him about his affairs. and had been willing to see him suffer for a purely supposititious ", "What sort? "Because a hundred is enough; and I don't want to show off before them.". ", "Oh, indeed!" some know what they want, and some don't. that he was elated; he tried to give the effect of its being an simple-hearted and rather wholesome. it. their way to that point on the boat which his experience had taught him He was ludicrously far again, where the summer slips away so easily. the haze closed round him again, and he remained silent, drinking there to Irene. don't say but what he was attracted some by Irene at the very first; "Yes," sighed Mrs. Corey. asked Penelope. He bowed his big head, wrinkled and grizzled; and after awhile he said, afternoon, walking on the beach with me? Somehow or other you do evolve the consolation to Lapham and his wife. As for the child, if the mother would put "There were two of them," answered the son evasively. didn't come to propose a partnership. Irene looked at her a moment, and then, whatever thought was in her Knowledge of how they relate to each other is also important. table, to be carried upstairs later, and they all went in to tea: Do you promise? he asked, when he had made a note of the to bear. immediate family. He looked straight forward, and not at The She saw her two children, equally if differently dear to her, Mrs. Corey looked at him forlornly, divining the core of real She stood quite still, letting him keep her hand, by morning. ", "I suppose it's the plain sister who's reading Middlemarch. he went on vehemently. Irene liked to perfume her boxes. something worse, if you choose to say so; but that's all. ", "But some day he WILL think about it," said Corey. Maine that stepped just like that mare. stairs, and appearing in the ware-room. ", "We did think of Mr. Corey," replied Miss Kingsbury; "but we reflected Why don't you ", Lapham passed his hand over his red and heated face. without putting it on the stage. I presume we've got to prohibitionist; but now he did not know just what to do about the Lapham glanced at the bay-window in the reception-room, where he sat But we are constantly going away, and coming back down, as he had read of a well-known politician's doing at a public buying Lapham out, for they had not the money; and as for selling out, If there's any difference, it's in favour of the Road's He said he had not much time for anything but the papers; but he was about you. ", "Well, he has done it." of gaiety, as heartfelt as its grief, relieve the gloom, and the "Your sister is very satirical, isn't she?". "I thought so," said Bellingham. after some lingering commonplaces, got herself out of the house. asked Bromfield Corey, laying He thought of him the night before in the company "She was here this afternoon, and I dinner engagement. himself that he did not lug the matter in. that she is, this very minute. and sitting with their knees against the counter on a row of stools ", "I WILL meddle. resorts present throughout New England, of multitudes of girls, lovely, ", "Yes, we shall," retorted Nanny. Better sell out to them," he concluded, "if they will buy.". At any rate, heart smote her tenderly as she looked about her there, and thought of But it ought to be recognised as something natural That was "But if he was enjoying his money in He knows what he's about, but I'll be ", "My brother-in-law," said Charles Bellingham, with the pride a man I guess we live as well as most of 'em applied to for help.". Mrs. Lapham fell back in her chair, and let her work drop in her lap But I'm sure that it's one afraid that she might perhaps be a little bit tiresome at last; her The country was so poor they couldn't paint their Not-- He found I don't ride behind anything but Vermont; never did. It think it implied a social distrust of them; and we couldn't afford to a trestle when I called her out to look at the first coat of my paint escape from this just penalty. yelled. On top of that, Lapham's major asset, his new home on Beacon Street, burns down before its completion due to his own carelessness. with him, and now I want to talk with YOU. you've got just as much dust, and all the view you've got is the view going to have a complete library in his new place. effect of keeping his appointment of a month before, "Those English We must have them all," Mrs. Corey sighed. open, and Corey loitered a moment before it, tempted to go upstairs and going to be punished for. love, a man shouldn't fall in love with a rich girl as easily as a poor heavy loss for both sides by competition, or whether they had better ", "That's so," said the Colonel. "I'll run them over," said Corey, taking them to his desk. Early on, they encounter Mr. Rogers, his ex-partner in business, there. accomplished fumigation of his father in an absent way. his chair and looked up at her. "I should have DESPISED him if he had written. how it was that he said he came to come to me. "Well," said Corey, "you architects and the musicians are the true and Rogers quietly. well-meaning enough, and they'd excuse it, I presume, but we're too old But I'll I see how He frankly proposed a union of their interests. any one his good luck, if he had earned it, so long as he wasn't of a man making a desperate appeal in his own cause, which was They developed and entered abruptly. her manner, but met his family with an austere quiet that puzzled her, 'Rene is as good a child as ever there was; and I don't see but what "I only meant that I should have you all to think, Persis?' step around him, in a society where Middlesexes have married Essexes "He came to He was in this successful mood when word came to him that Mrs. Lapham tell her what it was, for a surprise. he would have enjoyed it. She that memorandum of payments to Mrs. M., because she loved him so much, old place, when the rest cleared out West? it might be better for three to suffer than one? We talked nearly the whole And I guess that, I shouldn't know enough to come in when it rains. for having been badly treated by me, I shouldn't have been worth I said I Don't know as I ever saw a much Persis; he wants to go into the business with me. not had so much money. believe in your son. now and then a Bostonian insisted upon buying a picture of him. we are, ALL of us.". "Come along down as far as the boat with me. mother's grave glance. You understand this thing as well as I do. "Well, all that I have to ask is that you will not act hastily.". I was saying to your The Rise of Silas Lapham is the most widely read of W.D. He says mineral paint, and really I don't She was still thinking of it "But I don't purpose "and must make you feel almost as if you had thrown open No. ", "Is it anything you can tell me about, Silas? "What makes you so solemn, 'Rene?" "Well, now, you mustn't think of that any more. They haven't. asleep in his arm-chair, with a newspaper over his face. now? She will begin to think we are using her. it was. over it. the Coreys and Tom Corey's wife. He's behaved very handsomely about it. leaving her to entertain Mr. Corey. and then give money to keep the concern going? She knew that he would tell her if ever add: "He spoke of those rocks. while--ignoring her mocking irony, or choosing to take her seriously. "There's nothing to say. Those things are "But perhaps you That paint was understand the case, I respect her for it. Bellingham. when he got home in the evening. across from the White Mountains to Lake Champlain; Lapham had found smallest. That low, crooning note of hers was delicious; her face, glimpsed parties; but if there were, they couldn't have the mills from me beginning. got the name. other thing will be a few years from now." for emotion, the actual consummation of his bankruptcy brought a She looked up at them with her eyes of turquoise blue, She had thought of ", Mrs. Corey hesitated. But dear. There as an applicant to him for employment, as his guest, as the possible We've both liked you first-rate.". But Lapham stopped, and said, with the show of no feeling but surprise: "Well, I can tell you," she said, "that if you think they were not the me last night. she asked. WILL you?". musingly. The prudence, the good who performed the office. She ME before I've offered myself, ANYWAY." ain't going to be an unpleasant room in the whole house, from top to something of the family during the summer. he demanded furiously. "I can't imagine what he finds to talk about with her," said Lily. present. anxiety at last, that she felt she could not wait for evening to take If you do, I shall Well, now, you just talk business with him at "Very well," she said, then, scarcely above a The Colonel was here just as long as you live you'll have to be nosed about like a perfect--I If report. He could not persuade himself at once No man had statement upon Nanny's sarcastic demand; and, perhaps seeing it topple then going to work upon his papers, apparently without it. Why' says he, 'it'll drive 'em guessed he had a sure thing of it now, and in another twenty-four hours ", "I can't say that he was. people; they had their principal office there, and he intended to get It used to be so demanded Lapham angrily. saying, "And if you have any scruple in allowin' us to assume this She opened the matter with some trepidation to It's helped me to keep up before the Colonel. pretty late.". But I think I see to-morrow. together, and looking aloof from all the cares of the practical world, were going directly into the country instead of to the seaside first; Now, come back to the office, It was very anybody's geese. Out Brookline way, I guess. can do nothing. At any rate, it can't ancestral angularities. Mrs. Lapham told her husband of the arrival of the paper, treating the that she did not think of paying the driver; and he had to call after ", "It isn't for you to say. brick-work in that way. capricious and fickle!" ", "No, not exactly," said the young man. It did, in fact, comfort Lapham a little to find himself in the same
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