Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-12-04
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I.-Major Anderson had
made a fortune in 1878 when other people
We're losing fortunes, and the magniticence
Of the Ambersons began then. Major Am.
berson laid out a 2Oo-acre development"
with roads and stataary. and in the centre
OF q four-acre tract, on Anderson avenue,
built for himself the most magnificent
mansion the Midland City had ever seen.
CHAPTER II.-when the majors
daughter married young WILDER Minafer
could OF never really nhsoli love Wilbur vii r. ali her
Love would be bestowed upon the children.
bringing and his youthful accomplish
mentS as a mischief maker were quite In
keeping with the most pessimistic predic-
tons.
CHAPTER I1I:-By. the time George
to eon away his is f belief that fs tn the n Am issHsops
were about the most important family in
the world. At a ball given in his honor
monopolized Lucy Morgan, a stranger and
%% s5,5s , S[fh ~ her line S1tl} h ss i sscS Il thai Ss 3
been poking much fun, was the young
lady's father. He was Eugene Morgan, a
fefnrnin Tei tSers to Of e Bleeu a fae ana ne and Ta Is
build horseless carriages Of his WI in
vention.
CHAPTER. Iy.-Eugene was an old adj
mirer Of .Isabel's and they had been en-
gagged when Isabel threw him over be,
cause Of some youthful indiscretion and
married Wilbur Minafer.
CHAPTER v.-George makes rapid
progress in his courtship of Lucy.
CHAPTER v1.-while driving with
Lucy. next day, George allows the horse
eveFSturns The cutter, spilling George ana
George is greatly annoyed.
CHAPTER vII.-George reveals intense
dislike of Morgan, whom he suspects OF
financial designs on his uncle or grand
father: Ills His "a aunt q1d Fanny \ Nm, Mi rsh,7Eas to Inns ms
CHAPTER ~vIII.-Home' on vacation.
George has a heart-to-heart talk with his
mother, in which the state Of the family
finances and his fathers failing health,
both.
serning Lucy and her suitors-in particu-
aar Fred Kinney-George urges her to
consent to a formal engagement OF mar
riage, but Lucy refuses.
CHAPTER X.-George becomes annoyed
at gossip which connects his mothers
name with Eugene Morgan, and rightfully
rebukes his AuntA Amelia for her remarks
on the subject. Aunt Fanny Is sympa'
thetic but somewhat bewildering.
CHAPTER XI.-The sudden, death Of his
father, following graduation, recalls
George from college.
George took no conspicuous part II
either the academic or the social cele
brations of his class; he seemed to re
gard both sets of exercises with a tol
Grant amusement, his own "crowd'
s.not going in much for either of thos'
sorts of things as he explained tt
Lucy. What his crowd had gone in TO
remained ambiguous; some negligen
testimony indicating that, except TO
AN astonishing reliability which the,
all. seemed to have attained in matter
relating TO musical comedy, they hat
not gone in for anything. Certainl,
the question one of them put to Lucy
in response to Investigations Of hers
seemed to point that way: "Don't yo1
think" he said, Greatly, don't yor
think that being things is rather BETTE
than doing things?"
He said "rahthuh bettuh" for "rathel
BETTER" and seemed to do it deliberate
]y, with perfect knowledge Of what HI
was doing. Later, Lucy Knocked hin
to George, and George refused tC
smile: he somewhat inclined to sucl
recommendations, himself. This inclina
ton was one Of the things that he hat
acquired in the four years.
What else he had acquired, it nigh
have puzzled him to state, had any
body asked him and required a direc
ronJu within q raooonoh1o cnana n
time. He had learned how to pass eS
aminations by "cramming;" that is, il
three or four days and nights he coul'
get into his head enough of a selecte
fragment of some scientific of philc
:sophical OF literary or linguistic sui
ject to reply plausibly to six question
out of ten. He could retain the infol
nation necessary for such a feat jus
long enough to give a successful pei
Torrance; then it would evaporate vi
terly from his brain, and leave him uI
disturbed. George, like his "crowd,
not only preferred "being things" t
ssdoing things but had contented hin
self with four years of "being things
as a preparation for going on "bein
IIliuSS. FAuu Wllcu Lucy IdIHCA o1Ji
pressed him for his friends probabl
definition of the "things" it seemed S
superior and beautiful to be, Georg
raised his eyebrows slightly, meanin
that she should have understood will
out explanation; but he cid explain
"Oh, family and all that-being a gel
} tIeman, I suppose"
Lucy gave the horizon a long loo]
but offered no comment.
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"Aunt Fanny doesn't look much be
ter" George said to his mother, a fe
minutes after their arrival, on IL