The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation. Harry Leon Wilson
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CHAPTER XXVI.
A Hot Day in New York, with News of an Interesting Marriage
A Sensational Turn in the Milbrey Fortunes
Uncle Peter Bines Comes to Town With His Man
Uncle Peter Bines Threatens to Raise Something
Uncle Peter Inspires His Grandson to Worthy Ambitions
Concerning Consolidated Copper and Peter Bines as Matchmakers
Devotion to Business and a Chance Meeting
The Amateur Napoleon of Wall Street
How the Chinook Came to Wall Street
The News Broken, Whereupon an Engagement is Broken
The Departure of Uncle Peter—And Some German Philosophy
Some Phenomena Peculiar to Spring
An Unusual Plan of Action Is Matured
Some Rude Behaviour, of Which Only a Western Man Could Be Guilty
FOREWORD
The wanderers of earth turned to her—outcast of the older lands—
With a promise and hope in their pleading, and she reached them pitying hands;
And she cried to the Old-World cities that drowse by the Eastern main:
"Send me your weary, house-worn broods and I'll send you Men again!
Lo, here in my wind-swept reaches, by my marshalled peaks of snow,
Is room for a larger reaping than your o'ertilled fields can grow.
Seed of the Main Seed springing to stature and strength in my sun,
Free with a limitless freedom no battles of men have won,"
For men, like the grain of the corn fields, grow small in the huddled crowd,
And weak for the breath of spaces where a soul may speak aloud;
For hills, like stairways to heaven, shaming the level track,
And sick with the clang of pavements and the marts of the trafficking pack.
Greatness is born of greatness, and breadth of a breadth profound;
The old Antaean fable of strength renewed from the ground
Was a human truth for the ages; since the hour of the Edenbirth
That man among men was strongest who stood with his feet on the earth!
SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL.
CHAPTER I. The Second Generation is Removed
CHAPTER II. How the First Generation Once Righted Itself
CHAPTER III. Billy Brue Finds His Man
CHAPTER IV. The West Against the East
CHAPTER VI. A Meeting and a Clashing
CHAPTER VII. The Rapid-fire Lorgnon Is Spiked
CHAPTER VIII. Up Skiplap Canon
CHAPTER IX. Three Letters, Private and Confidential