Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-10-30
SYNOPSIS.

made a fortune In 1873 when other people
of the Ambersons began then. Major Am
berson laid out a 2OO-acre development"
with roads and stataary, and in the centre
built for himself the most magnificent
mansion the Midland City had ever seen.
daughter, married young WILDER Minafer
the neighbors predicted that as Isabel
love would be bestowed upon the children.
There was only one child, however,
bringing and his youthful p acc o n
ments as a mischief maker were quite in
tons.
CHAPTER III.-By the time George
wee een away h t4 f balisf that hs DID tSe n %m attsmps
were about, the most important family in
the world. At a ball given in his honor
monopolized Lucy Morgan, a stranger and
%3 sSssy ;SGa{n her ling, Sat|} IL T. i ssass Il tsa Is
been poking much fun. was the young
lady's father. He was Eugene Morgan, a
rsturnln lsi there to erect Saeea a factory a 7 ne and It to
build horseless carriages of his own in
vention.
CHAPTER. 1V.-Eugene was an old adj
gagged laaesf W Wh aSa0 ISABEL ahd threw reey h haa o oser e be-
cause of some youthful indiscretion and
married Wilbur Minafer.
CHAPTER v.-George makes rapid
CHAPTER vI-while driving with
to get beyond control. and the animal
Gvs95of IN the the ca snow. sp unhurt aee although
George is greatly annoyed.
ut was a bum house, anyhow" said
George GROSSLY. II don't even know
~fthe people that are building it. They
say a lot of riffraff come to town every
year nowadays and there's other riff
raft that have always lived here, and
have made a little money, and act as
if they owned the place. Uncle Sgd
ney was talking about it yesterday:
he says he and some Of his friends are
organizing a country club, and already
some of these riffraff are worming into
it-people he never heard Of at all !
Anyhow I guess it's pretty clear you
don't know a great deal about archi-
lecture"
She demonstrated the completeness
of her amiability by laughing. "IL
know something about the north pole
before long," she said, eff we keep
going much farther in this direction ]"
At this he was remorseful. call
right; we'll turn and drive south
awhile till you get warmed up again.
I expect we nave been going against
the wind about long enough. Indeed,
I'm sOrry!"
He said, Indeed, I'm sorry in a
nice way, and looked very strikingly
handsome when he said it, she
thought. No doubt it is true that
there is more rejoicing in heaven over
one sinner repented than over all the
saints who consistently remain holy
and the rare, sudden geRtlenesses of
arrogant people nave infinitely more
effect than the continual ge%ntleness of
gentle people. Arrogance turned
gentle melts the heart and Lucy gave
her companion a little sidelong, sunny
Glod of acknowledgment. George was
dazzled by the quick glow of her eyes,
and found himself at a loss for some.
thing to say.
Having turned about he kept his
horse to a walk, and at this gait the
%sleighbells tinkled but internationally
The snow no longer fell, and far
ahead, in a grayish cloud that lay upon
the land, was the town.
Lucy looked at this distant thicken
ing reflection. "When we get this far
out we can see there must be quite a
little smoke hanging over the town.
she said. II suppose that's because
it's growing. AS it grows bigger ii
seems to get ashamed of itself, so it
makes this cloud and hides III it.
Papa says it used to be Il bit nicer
when he lived here: he always speaks
of it differently-he always has a
gentle look, a particular tone of voice
I've noticed. He must have been very
aSond of it. From the way he talks
bu'd think life here then was just
one long midsummer serenade. He
declares it was always s%unshiny, that
the air wasn't like the air anywhere
else-that, as he remembers it, there
always seemed to be gold dust in the
air. I doubt it! I think it doesn't
seem 10 be dullcr air to him now
Just on account of having a little SCOT
IN it sometimes, but probably because
he was twenty years younger e II
seems to me the gold dust he thinks
was here is just his being young that
he remembers. I think it was just
youth. 1t is pretty pleasant to be
young, isn't itT'
"You're a funny girl" George said
gently. "But your voice sounds pretty
nice when you think and talk along to
gether like that"
The horse shook himself all over
and the impatient %sleighbells made his
wish audible. Accordingly George
frightened the reins, and the cutter wa<
off again at a three-minute trot, nc
despicable rate of speed. 1t was moi
long before they were again passing
Lucy's Beautiful House, and here
George thought TT to put an appendix
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