Category: The Rise of Silas Lapham

“But you won’t choose when you’ve thought it over, Si.” Then she applied an emollient to his chafed surface. “Don’t you suppose I feel as you do about it? I know just how proud you are, and I’m not going … Read the rest

“No, I don’t think so. It’s decent. Tom had found out–without consulting the landscape, which I believe proclaims it everywhere—-“

“Hideous!”

“That it’s really a good thing; and he thinks that he has some ideas in regard to its dissemination … Read the rest

“Mine.”

“Nonsense! What was he doing there?”

“Oh, nothing much.”

“What did he come for?” “Come for? Oh! he SAID he wanted to go into the mineral paint business.”

Mrs. Lapham dropped into a chair, and watched his bulk shaken … Read the rest

The young man went to see Colonel Lapham shortly after his return to Boston. He paid his visit at Lapham’s office, and if he had studied simplicity in his summer dress he could not have presented himself in a figure … Read the rest

“It’s astonishing what a hardy breed the young club-men are,” observed his father. “All summer through, in weather that sends the sturdiest female flying to the sea-shore, you find the clubs filled with young men, who don’t seem to mind … Read the rest

“Well, I can tell you what,” said the Colonel, in fond enjoyment of their young ladyishness, “your mother wa’n’t ashamed to sit with me on a trestle when I called her out to look at the first coat of my … Read the rest

When the spring opened Colonel Lapham showed that he had been in earnest about building on the New Land. His idea of a house was a brown-stone front, four stories high, and a French roof with an air-chamber above. Inside, … Read the rest

“How can I tell? He seemed just about as much struck up on me. Anyway, he paid me as much attention as he did her. Perhaps it’s more the way, now, to notice the mother than it used to be.”… Read the rest

“No,” said Lapham, somewhat absently. He put out his huge foot and pushed the ground-glass door shut between his little den and the book-keepers, in their larger den outside.

“In personal appearance,” wrote Bartley in the sketch for which he … Read the rest

“Yes, we shall,” retorted Nanny. “We can’t help it; and if we can’t, her own ignorance would be cause enough.”

“I can’t feel that she’s altogether ignorant,” said Mrs. Corey justly.

“Of course she can read and write,” admitted Nanny.… Read the rest