The Thoroughbred
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ISBN13: 9780217374613
Paperback|9780217374613
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE MOKNING AFTEE A5TER five or six hours of the solidest sleep he had enjoyed in weeks, Alfred Blair came wide awake all at once and set himself to wrestling with the new factors in his situation, those that Celia's unexpected attitude and unprecedented display of emotion last night had forced upon him. He realized that the things women say in moments of emotional stress do not always represent their considered opinions. Celia's avowal, for example, that she had been fond of him?perfectly idiotic about him?up to the moment of what she had spoken of as his insult last night, might have been snatched merely as an effective background to set off the insult itself in more lurid colors. But there could be no doubt that she felt strongly about the matter. She was not indifferent to him. Chivalrously as he had meant it, he could see nowthat his suggestion of a willingness to furnish her with a pretext for getting rid of him altogether, right on the heels of his confession of his financial downfall, had been inconsiderate?even brutal. It occurred to him that a clever, unscrupulous man, who wanted to goad his wife into the acceptance of his fallen fortunes with him could hardly have adopted more skilful tactics; granted, that is, that he had the unmerited luck to be married to a little thoroughbred like Celia. He felt terribly contrite about it. His memories of the evening convicted him of about all the crimes in the husband's calendar. He had sworn at her, bellowed at her, made her cry, for the first time, so far as he knew, since they had been married. He had infuriated her into the resolution to share his poverty on a putative twenty-five dollars a week; into binding herself to it by means of that promise of his that he would assent to any plan for their fu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217374613 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217374611 |
| Weight | 0.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 102 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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