Excerpt from The River It would never have occurred to Rickard, had he thought about it at all that morning as he knotted his tie of dark, brilliant blue silk, that the selection Of his lapis pin was a choice; it was an inevitable result, an instinctive discretion of his fingers. It warped, how' ever, the suspended judgment of Marshall's men who had never seen him shoveling coal, disfigured by a denim jumper. They did not know that they themselves were slovens; ruined by the climate that dulls vanity and wilts collars. ...
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Excerpt from The River It would never have occurred to Rickard, had he thought about it at all that morning as he knotted his tie of dark, brilliant blue silk, that the selection Of his lapis pin was a choice; it was an inevitable result, an instinctive discretion of his fingers. It warped, how' ever, the suspended judgment of Marshall's men who had never seen him shoveling coal, disfigured by a denim jumper. They did not know that they themselves were slovens; ruined by the climate that dulls vanity and wilts collars. Give him a year to change some of his fine habits! Wagered Smythe, the stoop-shouldered clerk, as the door Of the inner Office closed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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