The Romance of a Plain Man
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^^How was I to hear of it ? You never told me, and I seldom read the papers now since the baby came. Of course I knew something was wrong. You were looking so badly and so much older. " To me it had needed no telling, because it had become suddenly the most ob^dous fact in the world in which I moved. Only a fool would gaze up at the sky during a storm burst and remark to a bystander, ^'Tt thunders. " Yet even now I saw that what she realised was not the gravity of the financial crisis, but its ...injurious effect upon my health and my appearance.
'^ You've been on too great a strain, " she remarked sympathetically; ^^when it's all over you must come away and we'll go to Florida in the General's car. " To Florida ! and at that instant I was struggUng in the grip of failure — the failure of the successful financier, which is of all failures the hardest. Not a few retrenchments, not the economy of a luxury here 298 THE ROMANCE OF A PLAIN MAN and there, but ultimate poverty was the thing that 1 faced while I sat beside her on the soft cushions under the rich fur rug.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
^^How was I to hear of it ? You never told me, and I seldom read the papers now since the baby came. Of course I knew something was wrong. You were looking so badly and so much older. " To me it had needed no telling, because it had become suddenly the most ob^dous fact in the world in which I moved. Only a fool would gaze up at the sky during a storm burst and remark to a bystander, ^'Tt thunders. " Yet even now I saw that what she realised was not the gravity of the financial crisis, but its ...injurious effect upon my health and my appearance.
'^ You've been on too great a strain, " she remarked sympathetically; ^^when it's all over you must come away and we'll go to Florida in the General's car. " To Florida ! and at that instant I was struggUng in the grip of failure — the failure of the successful financier, which is of all failures the hardest. Not a few retrenchments, not the economy of a luxury here 298 THE ROMANCE OF A PLAIN MAN and there, but ultimate poverty was the thing that 1 faced while I sat beside her on the soft cushions under the rich fur rug.
What to read after The Romance of a Plain Man?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Ellen Glasgow to read onlineMoreLess
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