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The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel By: David Graham Phillips (1867-1911) |
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A NOVEL BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
CONTENTS
I. MR. CRAIG ARRAYS HIMSELF
II. IN THE BEST SOCIETY
III. A DESPERATE YOUNG WOMAN
IV. "HE ISN'T LIKE US"
V. ALMOST HOOKED
VI. MR. CRAIG IN SWEET DANGER
VII. MRS. SEVERENCE IS ROUSED
VIII. MR. CRAIG CONFIDES
IX. SOMEWHAT CYCLONIC
X. A BELATED PROPOSAL
XI. MADAM BOWKER HEARS THE NEWS
XII. PUTTING DOWN A MUTINY
XIII. A MEMORABLE MEETING
XIV. MAGGIE AND JOSH
XV. THE EMBASSY GARDEN PARTY
XVI. A FIGHT AND A FINISH
XVII. A NIGHT MARCH
XVIII. PEACE AT ANY PRICE
XIX. MADAM BOWKER'S BLESSING
XX. MR. CRAIG KISSES THE IDOL'S FOOT
XXI. A SWOOP AND A SCRATCH
XXII. GETTING ACQUAINTED
XXIII. WHAT THE MOON SAW AND DID
XXIV. "OUR HOUSE IS AFIRE"
XXV. MRS. JOSHUA CRAIG THE FASHIONABLE ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA CRAIG
CHAPTER I MR. CRAIG ARRAYS HIMSELF
It was one of the top floor rear flats in the Wyandotte, not merely
biggest of Washington's apartment hotels, but also "most
exclusive" which is the elegant way of saying most expensive. The
Wyandotte had gone up before landlords grasped the obvious truth that in
a fire proof structure locations farthest from noise and dust should and
could command highest prices; so Joshua Craig's flat was the cheapest in
the house. The ninety dollars a month loomed large in his eyes, focused
to little town ideas of values; it was, in fact, small for shelter in
"the DE LUXE district of the de luxe quarter," to quote Mrs. Senator
Mulvey, that simple, far Western soul, who, finding snobbishness to be
the chief distinguishing mark of the Eastern upper classes, assumed it
was a virtue, acquired it laboriously, and practiced it as openly and
proudly as a preacher does piety. Craig's chief splendor was a
sitting room, called a parlor and bedecked in the red plush and
Nottingham that represent hotel men's probably shrewd guess at the
traveling public's notion of interior opulence. Next the sitting room,
and with the same dreary outlook, or, rather, downlook, upon disheveled
and squalid back yards, was a dingy box of a bedroom. Like the parlor,
it was outfitted with furniture that had degenerated upward, floor by
floor, from the spacious and luxurious first floor suites. Between the
two rooms, in dark mustiness, lay a bathroom with suspicious looking,
wood inclosed plumbing; the rusted iron of the tub peered through scuffs
and seams in the age grayed porcelain. Arkwright glanced from the parlor where he was sitting into the gloom of
the open bathroom and back again. His cynical brown green eyes paused
upon a scatter of clothing, half hiding the badly rubbed red plush of
the sofa a mussy flannel nightshirt with mothholes here and there;
kneed trousers, uncannily reminiscent of a rough and strenuous wearer; a
smoking jacket that, after a youth of cheap gayety, was now a frayed and
tattered wreck, like an old tramp, whose "better days" were none too
good. On the radiator stood a pair of wrinkled shoes that had never
known trees; their soles were curved like rockers. An old pipe clamored
at his nostrils, though it was on the table near the window, the full
length of the room from him. Papers and books were strewn about
everywhere. It was difficult to believe these unkempt and uncouth
surroundings, and the personality that had created them, were actually
being harbored behind the walls of the Wyandotte. "What a hole!" grumbled Arkwright. He was in evening clothes, so correct
in their care and in their carelessness that even a woman would have
noted and admired. "What a mess! What a hole!" "How's that?" came from the bedroom in an aggressive voice, so
penetrating that it seemed loud, though it was not, and much roughened
by open air speaking. "What are you growling about?" Arkwright raised his tone: "Filthy hole!" said he. "Filthy mess!" Now appeared in the bedroom door a tall young man of unusual strength
and nearly perfect proportions. The fine head was carried commandingly;
with its crop of dark, matted hair it suggested the rude, fierce
figure head of a Viking galley; the huge, aggressively masculine
features proclaimed ambition, energy, intelligence... Continue reading book >>
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