uncle u promised to become a orator he entertained a of the men s of the road church with irish and chinese dialect stories but in nothing was he more dearly revealed as the in his lecture on facts on real estate as delivered before the class in methods at the y m ca the advocate times reported the lecture so fully that said to you re getting to be one of the in town seems s if i couldn t d n by if a p reading down all this oo t to bring a lot of business into your office go od quit said feebly but at this tribute from himself a man of no mean fame he delight and wondered how before his i he could have the joys of being a solid d n by chapter xv ha to ms not did not bring the ad the deserved they were not to the nor invited to the dances at the union fretted be didn t care a fat for all i but the would kind of like to be among he nervously awaited us class dinner and an evening of furious intimacy with such ai charles the the banker the tool and the fashionable he was their friend as he had been in college and when he encountered th still called him george but he didn seem to encounter them often and they never invited him ta dinner with and a butler at their houses oo ridge an the we the class dinner he thou t of than vo reason we become real like an true american and spiritual the dinner of the men of the class of was organized the dinner committee like a once a we sent out no old are yon ng to be with ui at the friendship feed the of the good old u have d n by � cr known tbe of ob tamed ont � are we boys to be by a bunch of come on work up real genuine enthusiasm and all together for tbe dinner i elegant eats short talks and memories shared together of the est of life tbe waa in a private room at the union club was a old knocked together and the hall resembled a yet the who was free of the magnificence of the club entered with he nodded to the an ancient proud negro with brass buttons and a blue coat and the ball trying to look like a member men had come to the they made islands and in tbe hall they packed the and the of tbe private dining room hey tried to be intimate and enthusiastic tb to one another exactly as they had in college � as raw whose present and wrinkles were but jovial put on the evening you haven t a they tbe men whom they could not recall they addressed well well great to see you again old man what are you � � doing the same thing one was always starting a cheer or a college song and it was always into silence despite their resolution to be they divided into two sets the men with dress clothes and the men without extremely in dress clothes went from one to the other thou he was almost frankly out for social conquest he sought paul first he alone neat and silent paul i m no good at this and who s here now and be a d n by bunch of boys on say you seem kind of om matter oh the usual run in with come let s in and forget our troubles he kept paul beside him but worked toward the x t charles stood his admirers like a furnace had been the hero of the class of not only captain and hammer but and in what the state considered he had an had captured the construction once owned by the best known of he built state ers railway he was a heavy shouldered big man but not there was a quiet humor in his eyes a smooth quickness id his which and warned re and in his presents the most intelligent or the most sensitive artist felt thin blooded and a little shabby he was particularly when he was or labor very easy and and gorgeous he was he was a peer in the r idly american aristocracy inferior only to the ty old families in an old family is one which came to town before his power was the greater because he was not by senses by either tbe vice or the virtue of the older tradition was being merry now with the great the and the land owners and lawyers and had and went to squeezed among them he liked s smile as much as the social advancement to be had from his favor if in paul s company he ponderous and with b he t and he heard say to the banker yes well put up sir s love for titles became a rich relish you know lie s one of the d n by men in old george is getting than i ami the shouted take your seats shall we make a move said casual to t fault how the old planning to t anywhere george come on let s some seats come on i read about your in the bully after that would have followed him fire he was busy during the dinner now y cheering paul now approaching with hear you re going to build some in now noting how the failures of the class by themselves in a group looked up to him in his association with the nobility now warming himself in the society talk of and they e of a dance for which had decorated her house with thousands of they with an excellent imitation of pf a dinner in washington at which had met a a princess and an english major 