This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...together after dinner before going out to some place of amusement. "We ought to spend half of our nights at home and catch up with ourselves. Jeffries told me this morning for the first time that my work wasn't up to the mark. It's these nights. I'm losing my fighting edge." Jeanette had looked straight at him ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...together after dinner before going out to some place of amusement. "We ought to spend half of our nights at home and catch up with ourselves. Jeffries told me this morning for the first time that my work wasn't up to the mark. It's these nights. I'm losing my fighting edge." Jeanette had looked straight at him with a sort of sulking anger in her eyes. "One might as well be dead if one can't get anything out of life," she said in her decisive way. And then she added, carefully calculating the sting which she put into her words, "and a real man ought to be game at least while he is young." Rob made no reply. But he also refrained from further suggestions. The words of his wife had struck him like a lash, and his first instinct was, of course, to prove how wrong she was. Matters at the office went better. He made no complaint when his wife had plans for every night. And if dark lines were coming about his eyes, Jeanette gave no indication that she saw them. This little episode had occurred toward the end of the first year of their married life. It was well along in the second year when one night Rob said with a quiet definiteness which he used rarely, but which Jeanette had learned meant that there was no appeal: "I'm not going out to-night. I have played this game to the limit. I've got to choose between play and work. I haven't the money for the play without work, and I don't want it anyway. If you want to keep this thing going you'll have to go with other friends." Much to his surprise, Jeanette took him at his word. His ultimatum had not proved an ultimatum, after all. And it wounded his vanity and perhaps something deeper than his vanity that she found it so easy to amuse herself without him. Jeanette was the best of company, and there were...
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Signed by Author(s) 5"x7.5". Signed by the Author on the title page; Green cloth with gold spine title & blindstamp cover title; A very good copy with subtle discolored area on cover; 160 pages.
