A Girl of Chicago (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Girl of Chicago

Oh, I don't know. East, I guess. N 0 very enchant ing resort around here anyhow.

I rather think I shall not make up my mind until I've had an inkling as to what resort the little Allene means to honor with her presence, then I think I shall take wings thither for a month or so.

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Excerpt from A Girl of Chicago

Two young men lounged at one of the windows of the Tomahawk Club, one bright spring afternoon in the year 188 - . They were as alike as two peas - cigarettes, cutaway coats, low-cut vests, trousers of the most approved type, just as Skinnem, the tailor, had turned them out for the spring. They had shed their overcoats and come forth radiant at the first chirp of spring, much to the admiration and tender solicitude of all the fair damsels for miles around. As alike as two peas did I say? There was one marked difference. Jack Strainer was possessed of a moustache which, to interest the reader, the average novelist would call dark and silken, but which stripped of poesy was remarkably stiff, wiry and devoid of curl; while Gus Reacher, like Fledgby, was constantly feeling for the whisker which refused to take root upon his pale, flabby face. The two friends were termed swells, but they were by no means fools. They possessed, with all the faults, some of the virtues of their age and city. Jack was a bachelor with a snug little fortune of some thirty thousand dollars, while Gus Reacher was a widower, who had been but a year a benedict. He was what was termed by his friends, "a jolly good fellow," who was head over heels in debt, but who lived remarkably well upon credit.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.