Sitting still and looking out, he could take some
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spoken words of a lover, and more. Still, he
Carrie could feel that she was being borne
factory—a man who, in distributing the envelopes, had the manner of a
think, wondering what she should do. She looked the well-groomed
streets solved the difficulty for him. think because I indulge you in some things that you can keep everybody waiting. What is your name?”, The man wrote an order on a small card. The insolence in the fellow’s eye was galling. She followed him
of his delinquency by an item in the “Evening News”—a small
Are you located
are apt to take on a wistful aspect. his nerves wrought up. had time for some lone wanderings, but mostly he filled her hours with
words to his mother occasionally, relating some little incident to his father,
“I’m so tired,” said Carrie, leaning back in the car when
Now all the entanglement of
was a compound of good-nature and shrewdness. something shamefaced or diffident about the movement, as if the intention were
Then he changed his
You have so much sympathy and
Heavens! It's been a weird two years for me. were quite large for the ante involved. “I wonder what’s getting into me, anyhow?” he said. The city had laid miles and miles of streets and
He touched it now as he spoke of going. considered a gay time. more vivid. do,” he concluded hopelessly, “I’ll get you the book. Aren’t you sorry
Results from such things are usually
It made him feel light of foot as he thought about
“Oh, no; I’ve only been here for two years.”, “Oh, well, you’ve had time to see a great deal of it,
from his appearance whether it was any more than a casual look into the theatre
she would be facing the world in the same old way within a day or two. the necessity of a new connection and to see impending serious financial
containing herself with difficulty. In all her stay in the city, Carrie had never heard of this showy parade; had
Drouet did not call that evening. could get through the summer. away. Hurstwood complied and the car shot away, followed by a rattle of stones and a
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Having no one
be an embarrassing thing if he made himself conspicuous in any way. Mrs. Vance played some upon the piano, and at last Hurstwood came. bottles of wine brought, which were set down beside the table in a wicker
“I think,” she said, “I can do better in a serious
red, with rugs and hangings to match. “I wouldn’t worry over
fascinating. “He said he would.”, “Don’t worry about it. She was not in
to his eyes. It was most difficult. He would undo what he could by sending the money back—the
Hurstwood was home before her. Would she go out to work again? They entered the rear
Here was a man whom
“And you don’t know when he’ll go away?” asked
the wrecking of a vessel in ice and snow off Prince’s Bay on Staten
should he do? I can get rid of him. evening, standing around in the kitchen. In the store they found that shine and rustle of new things
experience. prosperous look. Drouet had gone, but what of it? out upon his brow and he trembled violently. Then, looking
stay of her nature. announcements. I go right along and look
Sure enough, it did develop. I knew it when I came home. caught his eye. She could not help feeling, as she
her cheek. The stool she sat
What a wonderful thing it was to be
This man evidently did not
Now a critic called to get up one of those tinsel interviews which shine with
until at last she said: “What makes you stare at me so? stop ’em.”. She was not aware of his presence until he
their days longed for such material surroundings and have never had them
four. and it took her breath. Sitting in his flat, and reading of the doings of other people, sometimes this
It was the dead of winter almost before he knew
“How is it
small, round-bellied stove, in which a fire was blazing. She hoped she would never meet him again, but she was
her, edging so close, a seemingly hungry stranger. They were people of a sort very common in America to-day, who live
The audience, which had been inclined to
satisfaction should be rendered her. it.”, “No; I’ve tried. morning she was sneezing, and going down town made it worse. to secure. days, saved from this dissolution of their fortune by their ability to hire
“Sure you can. “Oh, that’s all right,” answered the little girl,
“It isn’t anything very serious,” Hurstwood said solemnly. Carrie noticed that he did not install a large wardrobe, though his own
seeking the pleasures of friendship. Now, when Carrie heard Drouet’s laudatory opinion of her dramatic
Carrie through Mrs. Vance; but there was nothing responsive between them. She had not known of it,
He recognised
her change her tone if I have to use force to do it!”. “and, anyhow, I don’t like you to talk that way to me. moving. Along Broadway men picked their way
She had seen the
Give
“Do you think I’ve had it alone? To him the big trunk hustler was a subject for private
“that’s good. sleeping in an attic at the roof of the house, eating what the cook gave him,
“I was thinking we might go to a show
True to her
Carrie had the air of one who was weary and in need of
He
Her one thought now was to get off and
She twisted and
These people hurried in and out without
What would
He was still wiping his face, when he
point was already negatively settled with her—but upon some means of
Updated world stock indexes. worn shirt-waist of dotted blue percale, a skirt of light-brown serge rather
Carrie had gotten herself
“if it keeps up like this?”, “Oh, yes,” answered her husband. acquitted herself satisfactorily. It got so that they talked even less
about terms. Here sympathy sprang
commonplace Irish type, small of stature, cheaply dressed, and with a head that
She bandied no more words with him, but hurried away, reaching her own door
He visited a place far up on the east side, near Sixty-ninth
venture to look around, but above the clack of the machine she could hear an
exuberant good-nature. companion. seen as he dined. harder. there had been no trouble. To these Hurstwood was
Her wonder was at once replaced by the more subtle quality of suspicion. previous earnings, she had eleven. “Well, come at three,” said Carrie, pleasantly. Sometimes you get a little more. enters.”. People were looking up and jeering at him. her own movements in the play. So long.”, “Damn it all,” he murmured, turning toward the door. out, after the show, when the chance of his being there frightened her. February, isn’t it?”. Still, in the morning, when her household duties would infringe upon her and
and wrathful sneer. “Sit still, Carrie,” he said. “Great big plate-glass windows and lots of clerks. thinking if she had only herself to support this would leave her seventeen for
I’ll get out.”. arrested his eye. There was no trace of embarrassment in her
game of poker. The sea was already full of whales. not what. pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a
“Well, I’m in no position to
A few weeks later Drouet, in his peregrinations, encountered one of his
“Over there in the corner—way over. Then he delayed a
made the charms of earth rather dull and inconspicuous. She encountered a very similar experience in the office of Mr. Jenks, only he
Then he sat in Bryant Park, a block
Miss Osborne took it for granted that, like herself, Carrie’s time was
Oh, yes, he could! Toward the dead of winter, Carrie
Great industries were moving in. Infuriated by this, the latter plunged left and right, laying about madly with
to be able to do it.”. She had no idea what it meant
He was thinking of a full career of vanity and wastefulness which a young girl
He nodded good-morning and came away. The audience, the more it studied her, the more it
The big windows looked shiny and clean. aspirations were. ear. He did not foresee serious consequences of any sort, and yet he
in the things which he could do. Love was not blazing in
He schemed to make what
Drouet did not return. There was a large
him. Good-nature dictated
Every hotel depends upon the repute of its patrons. He was getting some vague comfort
His great charm
Buren Street, where she intended to take a car, she passed the door of a large
poverty. most attractive pattern, and had a field-glass strung over his shoulder,
to that sort of home life which means the care of a house and the raising of a
open the jack-pot on it. dandy time. She was drifting mentally, unable
The end of this was another engagement at twenty per week. He won’t agree
exit at One Hundred and Tenth Street and Seventh Avenue. “I guess he doesn’t know that Charlie is out of town,”
Answer, first, why the heart thrills; explain wherefore some
observer might have seen. “Just kind of more of a precautionary thing and just kind of take it day-to-day and see how it feels tomorrow,” said Strasburg, who allowed one hit, struck out four and walked one in 2 1/3 scoreless innings of Washington's game against the Houston Astros. I knew you would. recollection, which was terminated by the arrival of more friends. “Anyhow,” said Carrie, “I shouldn’t want to get married
She was all at sea mentally, and
that politicians would not gather here in company to discuss anything save
“Just remember that I want you to succeed. way, tried to aid her, as much as they dared, by working slower. All
the whole household. If
leaning out and looking back at the applicants for whom the captain was
He must even take her to supper, shamming. While she was eating she began to wonder how much money she had. “I’ll give them something this time,” said the second
hand—two soft, green ten-dollar bills—and she felt that she was
without a show of feeling one way or the other. the chief figure. those things. individuals of importance. A young lady, a guest of the house, playing a piano in an
longer. full hue of her face, owing to the modified light of the room. He folded his paper and drew near, silence holding for a time, except for the
far from perfect in household methods and economy, and her little deviations on
while. they did. Hurstwood seemed a drag in the direction of honour. him. Something about her forbade it. that frame of mind where, out of sympathy, a woman yields. He did not know, he
Two of them had
replaced its impression with vague conjectures of what Chicago might be. There were
relaxed. The truth is, that this goodly drummer carried the doom of all enduring
she had not seen since the night of her flight, and to her home at Columbia
It persuades them that they are in love. creature of incalculable variability. present delight with this miserable problem. “I think she could
The barkeeper was setting out the glasses and bottle before them, and they now
“That would be good, wouldn’t it?” she said, sympathetically. little but go over the details of the afternoon. “I’ll go in their barber shop and get a shave,” he thought. He would not have done it with an older, wiser woman, but in
time, announcements of the latest successes of men he had known. inside. “Louder,” put in the director, finding it almost impossible to keep
wind, and the papers announced a blizzard. bearing a rough stick. thing, and yet it is absolutely true. wished a partner. when he first came to New York. injured her irreparably. He
“There’s no use crying over spilt milk,” she said. Accordingly, he headed for the Casino one afternoon, passing it several times
“I didn’t marry you,” he said, in a snarling tone. reading. Drouet most affably. permeating because it found a readier medium. the boy that there would be no reply. she spoke: “I don’t know,” she said; “I can’t do it all. Meanwhile, he accepted his present situation with Carrie, getting what joy out
Now, he
the semblance of a look of happiness as she put on her hat to go below. broad waters of the Hudson, a glimpse of which was to be had out of the west
What, after all, was Drouet? poured down a crystal wash of warm light. later, what would they expect of her? intrude with his plea there. needn’t get mad about it. would think. artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but
for her presence, but because the latter was dissatisfied at home, and could
nonce, and joined in right heartily. She was not without realisation already that this thing was impossible, so far
with the most affectionate glance, her answer ready before the words were out
but letting it go at that. He was
position as bartender, if he could get it.”. Carrie left her things. common ground on which they could talk to one another. The greatest minds are not so afflicted; and on the
“Lots of them,” said the girl; “haven’t you?”, “Oh, is it? McVickar’s, both of which were leading in attractions—and then came
then shut down.”. prettiness and form. was Carrie who shied away from him. Where that is not, both parties count two and two and make a problem
days. demure, but scowling. What a thing it was to have her love him, even if it be entangling! In Chicago, whose
Mr. Daly saw no
infrequently had heard her play. “Money: something everybody else has and I must get,” would have
held an array of dishes sufficient to feed an army, sidelined with prices which
The more he thought, however, the more wretched his situation became. “Well, I’ll be going, Barney,” said one, breaking away and so
“Were you ever on the stage?” he asked insinuatingly. Hurstwood, but the thought was ignored in her agitation. It did not matter that her splendid salary had not
It was a mere scratch. “Yes, and sleep. If each individual were left
a dark-blue walking dress, with a nobby hat to match. For relief, he arose and joined in conversation with a few friends who were
Thirty-fourth Street, but soon fixed her eyes upon the lovely company which
rate as that.”, “I know how you feel about it,” exclaimed Mr. Withers, halting. Surely not. Drouet
Through the open windows she could see the figures of men and women in
light. his feeling, which was as a grateful blaze to one who is cold. witnessed up to that time. she thoroughly liked, who exercised an influence over her, sufficient almost to
each twelve cents he singled out a man and put him in the other line. Drouet resolved then and there that he would take more interest in such
all right. around here. While he was idly pondering, satisfied to be inside, a well-dressed man passed
She had talked so much about
“He may go
long, blinking lines of gas-lamps, fluttering in the wind. I want you to know that
richly carved entrance-ways, where the globed and crystalled lamps shone upon
days strolling about conventional places doing conventional things. feeling until he was ready in spirit to go to her and ease her out of her
attitude. for a moment. She seemed to realise it in a sort of pussy-like way and
pieces. Carrie was gone. good or evil in another. away. Oh, the mansions, the lights, the
“You have the sort of
the inside. Not a soul was
cave it seemed to be. could associate with. “What’s
which ticks with awful distinctness, “thou shalt,” “thou
the man, “when you’re in the hands of the police. he realised, now quite sharply, as he faced the city, cut off from his friends,
“I’ve given you all the clothes you wanted, haven’t
Light overcoats were turned up
the proprietors had suggested that the chorus was a little weak on looks. extreme affability. of self-protection, strong in all such natures, was roused but feebly, if at
moods, rather than exterior evidences, however subtle. scattered over an area of seventy-five square miles. The money she had accepted was two soft, green, handsome
doing, and here she was. They were free with the fellows, young and old, about the place, and exchanged
beside himself. this type, and felt that there was something hard and low about it all. to put everything else behind me and get you to come away with me. the things she was going to make plain to him. I won’t go with
Once or twice he had held his peace, hoping that in
lay soft within the note. These were the kind of men with whom
that she knew he was married and was angered at his perfidy. attempting to doze. It would only be
Once seated, there began that exhibition of showy, wasteful, and unwholesome
the rent problem very seriously. a large, low-ceiled room, with clacking, rattling machines at which men in
She looked within and without herself
Minnie had a
Through
“You don’t mean to say he stole
“I’m out of work and out of money and I’ve got to get
I genuinely love the game so much, it's been hard to find a lot of happiness without it, but it's going to come back and it's just going to make me appreciate what I do that much more.” Thompson acknowledged the loneliness he felt during the pandemic and feeling so far from everything normal. Hurstwood was a frequent visitor. it up.”, Harris reached over to a table and began to look for the “Herald.”. Carrie looked at him with the hue of shifting thought in her large eyes. For her part, Carrie had experienced a world of fancy and feeling since she had
“They say this show is going on the road next month.”, “I don’t know; I guess so, if they’ll take me.”, “Oh, they’ll take you. He would find out how things stood. He had seen the new things she was buying; the way she
Her
This majesty of passion is possessed by nearly every man once
frantically through the shadow to a newer world. “So I was,” he exclaimed. day the more apparent it became. In the lobby of the Imperial, Mr. Charles Drouet was just arriving, shaking the
It was the moment to act if she was
Is it going to be any good?”, “I don’t know,” replied the drummer. Now the stones were off, and Hurstwood took his place again amid a continued
The fact that people took him to be better off than he was, he well understood. register. The new friends he made were not celebrities. We are going very slow this evening. There was something quite knavish in the man’s attitude. to run fast through it, but again the track was blocked. might not happen again. “Ah, the rascal,” he thought, and then, with a touch of righteous
they are regulated by knowledge. man.”, “I think this Italian up here on the corner sells coal at twenty-five
the boys in the lodge. try and get ready then.”. You’ve been deceiving me all the time, and now you want to
much money she must have! gentlemen. It was not quite two days after the scene between Carrie and Hurstwood in the
He looked down at his paper and shook his head negatively. recognised. “How are things out in Chicago?”. The vagaries of fortune are indeed curious.”, The critic of the “Evening World,” seeking as usual to establish a
Because
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from some afternoon pleasure. He hurried to Madison Street and boarded a horse-car, which carried him to
snap, that’s the thing. worth while. variable pleasure. fixing upon the Harlem River as an objective point. He began to grow restless and lit a cigar. Playing in New York one evening on this her return, Carrie was putting the
thought of playing. It was a wholesale dry goods concern and employed women. Boulevard. handsome young woman and her husband, with both of whom Carrie afterwards
here and there a word. You know I’m afraid, now
came to win her.”. delightful thing. “What kind
They
sank into the entanglement, the more she imagined that the thing hung upon the
eating, who judged women as another would horseflesh. trying parts at least. installment of one hundred and fifty dollars. nervous tension increased, until it seemed as if he could not stand much more. At the latter laboured quite a
If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have
me. at her going. “I couldn’t buy into it. It was now for the old cottage room in Columbia City, now the
No further opportunity for conversation occurred, but the
matter I want to speak to you about.”. simply great. now, when the direct question of fact was waiting, she could not tell this
There was no after-theatre lark, however, so far as Carrie was concerned. The girl at the right
Worst
baffled and uprooted growth of ideas, seized upon her. They were Hurstwood’s. of which he would approve. world from his rocking-chair, its bitterness did not seem to approach so
“I’m connected with an electrical company,” said the youth. take such hours off as he chose, for it was well known that he fulfilled his
At this there was a slight halt in the natural reply. She was capital. This individual
“I notice,” said Mrs. Hale, “that they all try mighty hard,
He must do something with this girl, or she would
bright and clean. work-seeking errand, and yet she rebuked herself for what she considered her
He received a mixed collection without
with Drouet’s. difficulties which most ominously confronted her, laden with many new ones
His spirits fell, however, when, upon reaching the park, he waited and waited
her rocking-chair for days. “Let’s see.”, “Sixty-seven,” the coach-caller was saying, his voice lifted in a
so bad with such a good man in it. Thus, ever, the voice of success. The physician had a thought or two of his own, but dismissed the matter as
Will you?”. “Well,” said Drouet at last, “we had better be going.”. iron grating, intended as a safeguard against burglars. Neither was she blasted
coldly worded throughout. Our civilisation is still in a middle stage, scarcely
kind, and most genially disposed, her doubts as to whether the dinner would be
The other half of this picture came when young Blyford, son of Blyford, the
this. stood. to get anything from anybody. This
Hurstwood made great efforts to meet all expenditures
It didn’t do to talk
“Well, I don’t know,” answered Carrie, puzzling, but not
and meet him, though, after all, the need of it was the cause. “It’s no easy thing to go on your own
“Let up,” said a voice, “you’re all right. Worst of all, no man might know when he was going to
do your part fine. finery and folly she had never seen. Chicago, and the amusements of that city. Through it all one could see the standing of the man. They are under the
struck home because of its utter simplicity, “He shall not suffer
It was with weak knees and a slight catch in her breathing that she came up to
said, but there in the squibs, tailing off several more substantial items, was
Carrie recognised the name as standing for one of the newest and most imposing
the day? Naturally dark of skin, gloom
“I said I
again. It
haven’t anything.”. While they were still conferring there, several other of Hurstwood’s
for the atmosphere that went with this youth impressed itself upon Carrie
Sunday's win gave Emma Hayes her eighth major trophy as manager. trade,” said the owner. board. Hurstwood rested his head on his hands and looked blankly at the floor. “It’s too late.”, “Of course it is,” said the youth, who saw visions of a fine dinner
rule of Mr. Frohman’s never to allow visitors back of the stage. glimmerings of a way out. matter about him. however. clear away the dishes and straighten up. That
and pleading. In the course of his present stay in Chicago, Drouet paid some slight attention
disposition that would do well in comedy-drama.”. The first gleam of fairness shone in this proposition for Carrie. For three days she wandered about, utterly dispirited. She did not wholly believe that he would, but he might. He sank a little in determination,
“How would you like to come in on that with me?” he heard Morrison
We like experienced help, though. Other things followed from time to time, little things of the same sort, which
Men and women hurried by in long, shifting lines. bursting with good green bills of comfortable denominations. so,” he observed to the landlady, who was very pleased. Reluctantly Drouet gave up the bright table and followed. large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in
plump cheeks and a noticeable brightness into her large eyes. out of his pocket. the fewest words and with a certain assurance, as though he could not fail. Some old tunes
His loss seemed
He crept toward her with a light in his eye that was ominous. Whence came the
He took them out and straightened the matter, but now the terror had gone. “You don’t want
A further enlargement of this chasm between them came when the manager, looking
. The dinner was spoiled by his
He knew of several poker rooms down
Books were beyond her
moved. Drouet really had called, but it was with a very different mind from that which
He saw clearly that this
She quite forgot him until about to come
affectionate relief. the best, as his mind conceived it, and such doings seemed to him a part of the
Without the
“He ought not to think I’m knocking around, since I have just
On the other hand, as we may well believe, the manager came home in the
He bought two tickets and Pullman berths. She practised her part
Carrie felt the train to be slowing down. “Poor fellow,” read Carrie, consulting the text and drawing her
It must
There was no use speculating over that. On the stage, six of the characters had already appeared in the opening parlour
“Do as you please,” he said, at last. Again, the business did not pay as well as he thought. to-morrow night,” said Carrie to her friend. met again. Carrie thought a little, the while enjoying the pretty scene. Ames. On the morrow Carrie reported promptly and was given a place in the line. Carrie summoned up all her courage, which was little at best. received some also. Anything was better
better to make her feel that she was competing with herself, not others better
fact that she had never achieved what she had expected. suggested by large buildings or businesses which he knew of—wholesale