“Well, Ah’ve no doabt,” said his
daughter, demurely, “that you’ll have
the chance some day; and we would all lahke to join
you. But at the same tahme, Ah think Mr. Fulkerson
is well oat of it fo’ the present.”
Anticipative reprisal
Buttoned about him as if it
concealed a bad conscience
Courtship
Got their laugh out of too
many things in life
Had learned not to censure
the irretrievable
Had no opinions that he was
not ready to hold in abeyance
Ignorant of her ignorance
It don’t do any good
to look at its drawbacks all the time
Justice must be paid for at
every step in fees and costs
Life has taught him to truckle
and trick
Man’s willingness to
abide in the present
No longer the gross appetite
for novelty
No right to burden our friends
with our decisions
Travel, with all its annoyances
and fatigues
Typical anything else, is
pretty difficult to find
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
By William Dean Howells
Superficially, the affairs of ‘Every Other Week’
settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson
they seemed thoroughly reinstated. But March
had a feeling of impermanency from what had happened,
mixed with a fantastic sense of shame toward Lindau.
He did not sympathize with Lindau’s opinions;
he thought his remedy for existing evils as wildly
impracticable as Colonel Woodburn’s. But
while he thought this, and while he could justly blame
Fulkerson for Lindau’s presence at Dryfoos’s
dinner, which his zeal had brought about in spite of
March’s protests, still he could not rid himself
of the reproach of uncandor with Lindau. He ought
to have told him frankly about the ownership of the
magazine, and what manner of man the man was whose
money he was taking. But he said that he never
could have imagined that he was serious in his preposterous
attitude in regard to a class of men who embody half
the prosperity of the country; and he had moments
of revolt against his own humiliation before Lindau,
in which he found it monstrous that he should return
Dryfoos’s money as if it had been the spoil of
a robber. His wife agreed with him in these moments,
and said it was a great relief not to have that tiresome
old German coming about. They had to account for
his absence evasively to the children, whom they could
not very well tell that their father was living on
money that Lindau disdained to take, even though Lindau
was wrong and their father was right. This heightened
Mrs. March’s resentment toward both Lindau and
Dryfoos, who between them had placed her husband in
a false position. If anything, she resented Dryfoos’s
conduct more than Lindau’s. He had never
spoken to March about the affair since Lindau had
