The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
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coarseness of fibre to fit her for the set she was almost, but not quite reaoy to give her soul to move with.
 And here is the set:
 Gus Trenor, with his heavy carni- verous had sany beneath his shoulders as he preyed on a Jellied flower, his wife at the opposite end of the long bank of a jewellers window lit by electricity. And between the two. what a long stretch of vacuity! How dreary and trivial these people were! LiiN reviewed them with a scornful impa- tience. Carry Fisher, with her shoul- ders, her eyes. her devices, her gem eral air of embodying "spicy para graph young Silverton. who had meant to live on proof reading and write an epic, and who now lived on his friends and had become critical of truffies; Alice Witherall. an animated visiting list. were most fervid convictions turned on the wording of invitations, and the engraving of dinner cards; witherall, with his perpetual nervous note of acquiescA, his air of agreeing with people before he knew what they were saying; Jack Stepney, with his confident smile and anxious eyes, half way between the sheriff and an .heiress; Grace Van Osburg. with all the guile less confidence of a young girl who has always been told that there is no one richer than her father" Is that New York's best society? Mrs! Whar- ton is accredited to be one who knows and thus she depicts 1t. If this is it, why such strenuous effort to attain to 1t, why the vast array of climbers?
 "Once in the. winter the rector would come to dine, and her husband would beg her to go over the list and see | that no divorcee's were included. ex- | cept those who had showed signs of penitence by being re-married to the | very wealthy"
 selden, who makes excursions into | this gilded realm, yet keeps q little | republic of his own,-a lawyers work. | a library, q few friends among the ! Goutsiders.v But even Selden falls | Lily at all crucial times when he sees her coming from the Trenor house m town he falls to meet his engagement | with her when a few words would have explained all satisfactorily
 1 Al Monte Carlo he gave her put l half-warning when a complete one would have saved her from her wors' misfortune. When she was minded to stay in England where great sociai success awaited her Selden urged hel to return to her aunt in New York but remained inert at stemming the tai' of calumny resting upon her.
 In all her struggles for work he hele aloof Once at Gerty Fanish's reques' he sought her. found her on the sunny side of the beautiful social tapestry gave again but a half-warning. Wher she left her paying position because O that half-warning he knew of 1t, bu Iyet helf aloof.
 When she went again to his bachelo apartments and sacrificed on his opel fire the letters potent to turn bacl her social prestige through Berthi Dorset's fear he yet failed her
 As an ardent lover he came too late
 If the story points any moral 1t i the demoralization of great wealtl without inherited responsibilities. Tn
 millionaire of the olden countries hay
 their cares and duties inherited witt
 their wealth. The millionaire of Amer
 lea must make his responsibilities a
 rapidly as he makes his money if he |
 to have them.
 Thus made they are often chief fill ing for the penny paragraph and jest
 ing stock for the great public to flou
 at.
 The story Is a sad one. It Is
 strong one, gripping and holding in
 terest from the start. Tho character live life. They seem the very peopl