Titan
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✒ Author | Theodore Dreiser |
📖 Pages | 1115 |
⏰ Reading time | 33 hours 30 minutes |
💡 Originally published | 1914 |
🌏 Original language | English |
📌 Type | Novels |
📌 Genres | Psychological, Realism, Social |
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Chapter I. The New City
When Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyhood was ended.
His youth was gone, and with it had been lost the great business prospects of his earlier manhood.
He must begin again.
It would be useless to repeat how a second panic following upon a tremendous failure — that of Jay Cooke & Co. — had placed a second fortune in his hands.
This restored wealth softened him in some degree.
Fate seemed to have his personal welfare in charge.
He was sick of the stock-exchange, anyhow, as a means of livelihood, and now decided that he would leave it once and for all.
He would get in something else — street-railways, land deals, some of the boundless opportunities of the far West.
Philadelphia was no longer pleasing to him.
Though now free and rich, he was still a scandal to the pretenders, and the financial and social world was not prepared to accept him.
He must go his way alone, unaided, or only secretly so, while his quondam friends watched his career from afar.
So, thinking of this, he took the train one day, his charming mistress, now only twenty-six, coming to the station to see him off.
He looked at her quite tenderly, for she was the quintessence of a certain type of feminine beauty.
“By-by, dearie,” he smiled, as the train-bell signaled the approaching departure.
“You and I will get out of this shortly.
Don’t grieve.
I’ll be back in two or three weeks, or I’ll send for you.
I’d take you now, only I don’t know how that country is out there.
We’ll fix on some place, and then you watch me settle this fortune question.
We’ll not live under a cloud always.
I’ll get a divorce, and we’ll marry, and things will come right with a bang.
Money will do that.”
He looked at her with his large, cool, penetrating eyes, and she clasped his cheeks between her hands.
“Oh, Frank,” she exclaimed, “I’ll miss you so!
You’re all I have.”
“In two weeks,” he smiled, as the train began to move, “I’ll wire or be back.
Be good, sweet.”
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