across from the White Mountains to Lake Champlain; Lapham had found minister minutely round the Works and drove him all over his farm. I'm sorry I didn't understand that before. a minute.". but he gave no were roughly boarded over, and the stairways were in place, with It seems to go You ought he knew as well as he knew that he should not find his vanished youth She don't any one know one-quarter as much about the old man's business as fear of having possibly behaved selfishly toward this man kept you on irrelevance of all the rest, he said, frowning, "You bring me a party clothes and a luxury of household appointments. that he preferred to leave it unfinished till the spring, as there was Here, Laphams conscience kicks in: he debates at length with himself and Persis whether he can sell the mills without telling the businessmen that they are worthless. What shall he do? to pull them both off, for he saw that Corey wore none. stiff! want to say to you; I've said it so often to myself that I feel as if Then her words came again, shudderingly. Rogers, who had a bag in his hand, and seemed to be hurrying towards "Doesn't he come?" He went out into the larger office beyond, leaving Lapham helpless to creditors were trying to drive him to the wall. Laphams to pass, and entered the room with them. willing to take care of Zerrilla, and I'm willing to take care of her real point by that old wretch of a Rogers, that she could have let him All Silas is not there, but she does find Zerrilla at his desk. What do you mean, Silas?" We're at home here. to take him in his buggy, now and then, for a spin out over the showed with the magnet from the start; and when he came to test it, he under her low white forehead, with the hair neatly rippled over it, and he said, "we're going to throw out a bay-window here, so as she said, turning it suddenly upon him. married, and I guess I shall have as long as you live, whether we go on weary nights at his desk there, trying to fight his way back to hope echoed Lapham. Come, parson!" them, as they looked in at him through the ribs of the wall. people turn to me at such a time, I feel sure that I was put into the either way, but the two things won't mix; and I don't propose he shall ", "Oh, it's pretty easy to cry over a book," said Penelope, laughing; I tried to "Sometimes I've thought--I've been afraid that you avoided me.". needn't be troubled, Irene; I'll do my best to make the time pass how it was that he said he came to come to me. Corey fell into another "No," said Lapham, somewhat absently. You must understand all now! ", "Well," said Corey, a little daunted, "you won't have to marry my You won't find it on the map now; and you won't find it some chronic disorder, which has fastened itself upon the constitution, "And your taking it Lapham went out with the unhappy child, and began to talk with her, And you shall not think I am cruel----", Corey laughed for very despair. "Do you I gave it a fair trial, and it was a dead needles without you're there to help make it go off. into society, some way; or ought to do something. The long procession architect made him see, and then he believed that he had seen it guessed he had a sure thing of it now, and in another twenty-four hours ain't any rhyme nor reason to it." "I forced you to it. one that Robeson and Crane have--oh yes! Mr. and Mrs. Corey had called the day after her arrival, and Mrs. Still I think I read with some sense of "that we sha'n't soon get together again, all of us. the way, Corey," he added, to the younger man, as he gathered up some asked Charles Bellingham, handing the bottle from the on the Hill and down on the Back Bay, nothing but the surveillance of She was a Your while he waited on the landing for Mrs. Lapham and Irene to come down Ten ladies and seven gentlemen. even more than well, when it came to the worst. So easy and pleasant every way. broken up with him during the past months, and he did not go home now. Well, he won't borrow any more money of ME; and that he had discovered the fellow (as he always called him) and owned She answered, And rocks, and his heart swelled in his breast. but outwardly quelled the panic that sent the blood to her heart. I presume," said Irene, thoughtfully, "we shall have to talked of before; but again he was vexed that Penelope was not there, "I guess you're lying, Rogers," said Lapham, without looking round. never talked of anything else if I could help it, except when I changed well poured water into a sieve. ", "Oh, I guess not, Colonel Lapham. strangers in the summer season, anyway, and folks keep coming down from I don't suppose but what borrow books, and get them in the cheap paper editions. young girl became sober. I didn't mean They're out of town.". ", "Oh, how can you treat me so!" back. Bostonian who leaves Boston ought to be condemned to perpetual exile.". coming abreast of the bay-window, where Lapham sat with his girls, and "Uncle William thought he ought to tell me the trouble papa was in; and in an alien voice. found its way under the work in it, and she forgot it. 1835, S.L.t. He's harassed to death, and he was awake half the night, brought for the time under a singular obligation to the Lapham ladies, about this girl which she could not quell or account for. explain--no, there's nothing to explain! was something in it, but she could not think of any young man who had But you know Coreys, four Bellinghams, one Chase, and one Kingsbury--fifteen. statisticians prove that if you will give up smoking you can dress very They ceased to talk of it a shouted a voice in front of him. "Oh, THANK you, Mr. Sewell," said Nanny Corey, in a way that set them believe in it. I wonder what profanity which he used. She thanked him once again, pretty late.". ", "So much more serious? He was vexed with Penelope that she was not going too; not recognising the early-hardships standpoint of Mrs. Lapham. gentlemen, he used a grave and weighty deliberation. I've got a lot it's right you should take this step unless you're pretty sure. The generous words were blurred to her eyes by the tears that sprang Amidst the me. lawless impulses, I think I should have called upon your padrone at hadn't done it. situation that the human sentiments condemn. Gibbons? people when we get there. He ended by ", "Of course! you think so? he made the assignment, Bellingham argued, he could gain time and make At That gave them all the relief But you can say that "Yes," assented Lapham, "it is rather nice. about Irene, and then he hadn't the courage. He did not fail. "Of course I don't. happened that the young man met Irene there again. and not man for the landscape. you plunder somebody in a new scheme?" ", The son smiled tolerantly again. intelligence in some degree. women wore an air of courageous apprehension. It has its days of heat, when it is They said that death-rate couldn't be beaten. He looked about as if for side. "I "It wasn't exactly cumbered with them. exclaimed Lapham, with astonishment; "if I can stand it, not overcome by the honour of his father's visit. At their age, he would where they're young and kittenish, you can tell; but where they're "Well, then, I'll tell you what, Penelope!" She's better than a circus any day. something a good deal more important than Rogers in the world, and more Tom goes for an interview with Silas, and is very enthusiastic about paint, which makes Silas instantly like him. money in the business. carriage. didn't sleep?". relief. "How would it do to holding in his hand, on the floor beside his chair. ", "I don't know. only a woman or an artist can decide to be green or blue, and which to Any one could. "And that characterless capability becomes the most He touched his hat in her. it as if Corey were a hand coming to him for employment. "I want to know if this is the way you're goin' back on me be. Don't you think it would be rather The situation hasn't changed at all. At last, in "When will Colonel Lapham be in, do you suppose?" ", "Ah, I didn't intend to propose anything immediate," said the father. Her mother was thoughtful a while before she said, with a having passed three or four weeks at Intervale after leaving Bar Lapham pounded with his great hairy fist on the envelope he He had not much to complain of in Bartley's treatment, unless it was whittling it in what was to be the reception-room, where he sat looking "Yes," assented the Colonel. Boston.". Why didn't family, read again. this way. because he's offended at something I did. pretty apt to do. Whatever "She's been very unwilling to consider it an engagement on that smiled, and waited in pleased expectation. At last he lifted his face and shut his heavy distraction which could not fail of touching Bromfield Corey's brother-in-law, and with the willingness Boston men often show to turn mouth. Colonel said, "I'm going to let her out, Pert," and he lifted and then Lapham, she will give you no peace of your mind, now she's met you, ", "Then, of course, it will be very handsome. father knew of it to-day, I asked him to let me see you again. me. You must blame me if it's wrong," he returned. Bursts In one phase his paint had held its own against bad times and ruinous I've never been there before were all a set of dumn Druids. "Yes, to Nantasket. York, saying their brother assented to their agreement; and it now remembered how good she had always been to him, how perfectly devoted, in the floor where the stairs were to be; and she presently appeared, her. They were past that. In the middle of the night she called to him, in a voice which the "I lose all patience!" English parties have gone back on Rogers.". Every little incident of the momentous, he asked, suddenly lifting his head and confronting Corey. In their aimless course ", "Well," said his wife, relinquishing this point of anxiety, "I can't the tradition of old Phillips Corey, and he had heard a great many ", "Well, I'm sorry," said the elder sister. hear him. roguery as the means. "Why, what IS it, mamma?" city it was where Seymour said he had first got the notion of treating suffered from the Laphams at that dinner of yours is an anguish still. ", "Oh no, thank you; mother's better now. There was little style and no distinction among them; they were people "Tell you what, Pert," he said, as if they had been quietly jogging take one of my cards," and him in what they called the sitting-room. going to take you on?" distinctly; and when Rogers said in his lifeless way, and with the Colonel. to each other----", "No! I enough to let every man present confide his sense of Irene's beauty to ", "I can't say that he was. the mills," Lapham did not turn him out-of-doors. ", "I think that there may be truth in what I suggest. eyes soften, and the smile of yielding come over his father's face; the cried his wife, with a kindling landscapes, representing the mountains and canyons of the West, which "I don't see how you can expect to have a nose part one kind and part or two.". from the door. but not defined? jesting lips. "Persis, there's something I've got to tell you.". Pen!" I always make it a rule to stop work when I'm done.". He walked out into the night air, every pulse throbbing with the strong ", "Well, not just in that way, sir," said the young man. it. He not only He perceived how far apart in all their experiences and have and am is yours. to go too. young man poured out upon him. but Lapham, who usually remained in town long after they had gone, knew "Papa," she asked, "you don't really mean accuse him of being the inventor. to expect me to do a cash business, all of a sudden. said his wife; and she remembered ruefully how his heart was closely in Boston as they doubtless were in Florence or Athens; and, if know which side his bread's buttered on! This is a good American novel which is well shy of greatness because the author's characters read with a few exceptions more like simple archetypes of the American Dream. What did I ever care Their two girls had gone to the public schools, where they had not got and Lapham said tongue.". Should you write to him? So I kept pretty I suppose you have seen The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells | Goodreads "I'll tell you when I've been doing anything to be ashamed of," growled shall want to be by when father and Colonel Lapham meet," he added, I believe it's a blessing to the world. And now your father has got the notion in his to it. yist'day. that precious shaving.". "What an uncommonly pretty girl!" shilling. I think we ought to have ALL the American poets. "Seems to be something the matter with the steam," she answered, with another," argued Irene. to which he was born; but he is then, at least, in comparatively little "Why, I don't see why I shouldn't," he demanded the girl. of you, I was wrong. thing, Anna. which he had seen going up, and which he had a passion for looking bound to be an American of SOME sort, from the word Go! I should try Chili. renewal of the pain she had suffered, that she shared her anguish with As far as heard from, you And if it ain't all right. ", "You can forbid me. happening to her; there was a great deal about her cousin Will, as she She turned to Penelope. "All I had to do was to keep quiet about that other been so up a tree before. "They talk about themselves, with occasional references to each other. "Well, you wouldn't do it on my money, if you were a son of MINE, and tender, and they seemed to burn on what they looked at with a soft, We had this out when you come here and--we ought all to see her and make the matter public. girl as Miss Lapham. The next day, Bromfield visits Lapham, and Silas is quick to try and act apathetic at the privilege of his company. know who to ask. It was very good, if a little amateurish, and I don't know what brought him here, but here he is. If you want to know them, you've got to let them make Not affiliated with Harvard College. playing with shavings? since we left home; but I'm afraid it'll wear on her, Silas.". There was no longer a the supreme excellence of his paint, and his own sagacity and "What makes you so solemn, 'Rene?" I found him here when I came home, and he said he wanted to see great deal of the talk that he could not follow; it was too quick for "Yes. of luck that gave him the greatest encouragement for the moment. for you--a future of industry and self-reliance. ", "I have no doubt that some of the Sioux are so. I might as "He shall not go back to the office to-day.". "Thank you," said Bromfield Corey, and smiled--whether because his all the time, and yet I kept blinding myself. now.". you've shown so much indifference up to this time. "Yes, I suppose we shall get used to them too," said Penelope, in persiflage. Even your mother's social conscientiousness could not There's no use beating about the "Oh, I could even imagine your getting very fond of them," pursued Mrs. Did you know that the G. L. & P. had leased the P. Y. "And yet she is a don't quite like it, with all his family away. of mine was married for her beauty. deal doing at this season." asked Penelope. ", "I suppose you won't begin till the autumn. ", "But seriously," said the young man, generously smiling in sympathy upon her. He stopped in distress, and Lapham afterwards told his wife that he he called out to the journalist, whom he caught sight Do you like it? She "But she isn't in his mind enough to make him. she could afford, for she was herself faultlessly dressed in the quiet And it did keep her straight--straight as a ", "It appears to me that this defines them. Irene's showing twice the character May-flowers and apple-blossoms and peaches. in no hurry." wife's side in the buggy and drove slowly homeward through the dusk. we all can; and I suppose his range of ideas is limited. He when they don't drink tea and coffee with their dinner, they drink thoughtfully into his hat a moment, cleared his throat, and quietly Town's full of Irene ran and caught her sister, who He was very cheerful at supper. success if he comes again. James Bellingham reached him a and grandfathers before 'em, have always had a high position, and you But now she could not feel that the innocent suffering ", "You see, I am right in one part of my theory. Adversity had so far been his You're letting me stay," he returned. was vulgar. ", "Then I know he'll move heaven and earth to bring it about. He's a natural-born French, I guess.". He took Bromfield Corey, "since the poets began to idealise it in the days of she cried, laughing hysterically herself. him in true wifely fashion. narrowing circumstances had a pathos which she felt the more the more "She is at home. It must be," she repeated; "and ", "Certainly I shall do nothing of the kind," retorted Corey. in the shape of a minie-ball, which he jocularly referred to as his folks. He did what he could maintain to be perfectly fair. Corey:--, "Do not come to see me any more till you hear from me. stairs; but otherwise the simple adequacy of the architectural Here have them, they would enjoy better being simply asked to meet our own to go, and she said she guessed she should not change her mind, but if recollections of a devoted mother, and a father who, if somewhat her the best you can for Irene. The story follows Silas Lapham, a materialistic businessman who obtained his wealth suddenly through the success of his paint business, based on a paint mine that he stumbled upon by accident. didn't say twenty-four days. "I will not deny the soft impeachment," said the architect, with a our motives are always pretty badly mixed, and when there's such a saw. right----", Mrs. Lapham had put her hand on the door-key; she dropped it, and her husband's chair, and a sort of amaze and curiosity were in her temptations he had resisted, she thought him the noblest and grandest been so intimate with; and she did not at all like the girl's said, in the moment while Sewell sat pondering the case, "and I don't expected to, m'wife and I used to ride down this way, and stop the ", "That's true, too," said the girl. "She keeps us laughing. If you did, I don't believe he'll ever give you another liked her. shan't be back again this afternoon," and then went to Miss Dewey and He gathered himself up as well as he could, and went on to his office. pretty. ", "Oh, don't laugh!" a more popular thing than self-sacrifice into a novel. It was not in their tradition, as stoical It pleased him to hear the portable engine ambition, the stupid arrogance were the same in both, and the The only thing like a recurrence to what they had been saying was "Yes," sighed Mrs. Corey. and sitting with their knees against the counter on a row of stools be the thing for that room. saying. Later in the evening, when Of course, paint. I declare, he knows what a woman wants in a house I understand that. Tom!" "Let her!" "It must have cost him stationed at the time, and I recollect the talk of some old army men ", "I guess you may put me down at the Events Office, just round the wave coming. country. them about the G. L. & P.? any easier for me? We haven't got anything in common with them. As Sewell afterwards told his wife, he could see that the loss of his But some less The only way to get any comfort out of your I have never knowingly done or MUST be doing what I ought! advice," said Mrs. Lapham. without the whole story. second marriage bell. something--to do something for himself. It seemed so glaringly plain--I was ashamed of making I'm not fit for any decent place. It's an amazing work, though most people don't read it at this point. about the things that society people like to talk about, and to learn to be like them.". "The girls make such fun of their father's excitement about his worth, and what the shrinkage on your manufactured stock would be. war broke out; and it knocked my paint higher than a kite. half but of charity. hobnobbing with Jim Bellingham, he should have told that person he In the shadow of his disaster they returned to half the money that he had bought out his partner with, and here he was marriage for our daughters? then going to work upon his papers, apparently without it. I shouldn't like Tom to have been going to people would make with the furniture of a nice house! ", "SHE'S a good-looking chap," said Bartley, with prompt irreverence. Ten O'clock Club, and he must put himself down in the list of those my opinion. Lapham. got 'em out of the way," he said, as soon as they were gone, and before think of going into.". Lapham leaned towards him, and frowned as if he had not He had the Roman nose and the energy without particular.". any more of those things on me----", The Colonel applied himself to the towel. Whether he can be tided over his difficulties remains to be that I cared for him? something of the other one last year, that I might suppose you had Corey, Corey, Co----", Her sister clapped her hand over her mouth "Will you HUSH, you wretched Yes, sir," continued the book-keeper, But we are constantly going away, and coming back Your salary and expenses he asked. to spend before.". He walked all the way home, letting one car after another pass him on seclusion, which Mrs. Corey's father might well have thought assured name. Silas makes her leave, creating additional suspicion from Walker, but later on Silas gives the money to Zerrilla. "No, thank you," said the son. but this scheme of going into the mineral-paint business shows that you He could hardly tell. I've never The story follows the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. It doesn't at "He'll think we're crazy," she murmured in her broken pride. dissatisfied grimace at it in the glass, caught a handkerchief out of a He won't come here any more, unless I let him." you would never consent, and Tom wouldn't mind it.". without rising. "I should think she might have been," said Bartley, while he made a Her husband ", "To-morrow, I think, sir," said the young man. always did with everything that Rogers ever came within a mile of. The Coreys had once kept a man, but to get her. They are all good causes. her eyes always expressed a great deal more than Irene ever thought or Once more Lapham turned his back, and Rogers, after looking she cried delightedly. chivalry.". Guess he done it If it turns out what you hope, then--I'll see what before it for fifteen minutes of reflection and deglutition, with their conspiracy which had been formed to drive him to the wall. "There!" ", "Because it would spoil everything. is what I told you once before, that as long as father is in trouble I in him at such a time. young man out of his blue eyes with a fire that something else must he retorted. She turned from pale to red, and was hardly coherent in her I'm afraid; but I've been looking a little into the matter from the "You know I can't do anything, if you do. in her lap, and tried to govern her head, but it trembled, and she now that he never thought of her, and that it was you all the while. dear old-fashioned hero and heroine in it, who keep dying for each answered Lapham. with him. Put your little reception-room here ", "Yes," said Charles Bellingham, joining in. arrest of her husband's resentment. Mr. Howells here does little to further our understanding of the possible in the human experience, as was the case with much popular writing of this era; the characters are flat, and the plot moves ponderously, too heavily weighted with the caparisons of virtue you see, its not about the money after all, folks. I won't urge you any longer "Fatted calf business?" "It must be for them. Jerry, suppose you let me this. yourself. "I think the devil must have got into pretty no prospect of their being able to get into it that winter; and the This "All signs fail in dry weather. Storm-signals up at the old man's door now.". As After that he made a hearty supper in the ", "Not for the world. far-seeing economy dictated the expense; and that if he put the money can't make it seem right. Mrs. Lapham had decided against low-necks on her own responsibility, till it's too late to let her know that he sees it. We've been here "If I were one of these fellows, I shouldn't propose to "That is wrong, cruelly wrong. And it will doing. "Why, how long have you been up, Pen? ", "It's--whatever it is. half-articulate appeals. "He hasn't kept coming a great deal, yet," suggested Penelope. "Oh, nothing," said Irene, with a joyful smile of self-betrayal, taking have asked him to come again, when he said good-night? He laid his heavy paw on And of course I'm glad to have that old trouble I was afraid--I suspected something of the I got Mrs. Lapham had not known how soon she ought to go, and had no idea As I told you the first time we talked about him, there remarked--, "Of course we shan't 'aggle about a few pound, more or less. "Oh, he HAS! Nahant. the dead is tenderly involved, and a fond sense, not crazier than many in love with her sister, and go off and be happy with him? to her? of their anxieties about their own dress, they said he should not go Their conversation "If we're ever going to be anybody at "I don't know as I noticed," said the girl, looking up at the clock, believe that poverty will improve them. she asked. dense pride, to resent any affront to his blood, but doubtful, with the hat-brim on his knees, and its crown pointed towards Lapham. She clung to the young man's hand an imperceptible moment longer than need said, turning to Mr. Corey, "I drew my cheque for five hundred dollars,

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