-
Главная
-
- Книги
-
- Авторы
-
- Теодор Драйзер
-
- Финансист
-
- Стр. 84/297
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
"
Well
,
that
does
n't
matter
.
Some
one
will
take
me
home
.
Are
you
having
a
good
time
?
"
"
Fine
.
Oh
,
let
me
tell
you
.
I
stepped
on
a
lady
's
dress
over
there
,
last
dance
.
She
was
terribly
angry
.
She
gave
me
such
a
look
.
"
"
Well
,
never
mind
,
honey
.
She
wo
n't
hurt
you
.
Where
are
you
going
now
?
"
Aileen
always
maintained
a
most
guardian-like
attitude
toward
her
sister
.
"
I
want
to
find
Callum
.
He
has
to
dance
with
me
next
time
.
I
know
what
he
's
trying
to
do
.
He
's
trying
to
get
away
from
me
.
But
he
wo
n't
.
"
Aileen
smiled
.
Norah
looked
very
sweet
.
And
she
was
so
bright
.
What
would
she
think
of
her
if
she
knew
?
She
turned
back
,
and
her
fourth
partner
sought
her
.
She
began
talking
gayly
,
for
she
felt
that
she
had
to
make
a
show
of
composure
;
but
all
the
while
there
was
ringing
in
her
ears
that
definite
question
of
his
,
"
You
like
me
,
do
n't
you
?
"
and
her
later
uncertain
but
not
less
truthful
answer
,
"
Yes
,
of
course
I
do
.
"
The
growth
of
a
passion
is
a
very
peculiar
thing
.
In
highly
organized
intellectual
and
artistic
types
it
is
so
often
apt
to
begin
with
keen
appreciation
of
certain
qualities
,
modified
by
many
,
many
mental
reservations
.
The
egoist
,
the
intellectual
,
gives
but
little
of
himself
and
asks
much
.
Nevertheless
,
the
lover
of
life
,
male
or
female
,
finding
himself
or
herself
in
sympathetic
accord
with
such
a
nature
,
is
apt
to
gain
much
.
Cowperwood
was
innately
and
primarily
an
egoist
and
intellectual
,
though
blended
strongly
therewith
,
was
a
humane
and
democratic
spirit
.
We
think
of
egoism
and
intellectualism
as
closely
confined
to
the
arts
.
Finance
is
an
art
.
And
it
presents
the
operations
of
the
subtlest
of
the
intellectuals
and
of
the
egoists
.
Cowperwood
was
a
financier
.
Instead
of
dwelling
on
the
works
of
nature
,
its
beauty
and
subtlety
,
to
his
material
disadvantage
,
he
found
a
happy
mean
,
owing
to
the
swiftness
of
his
intellectual
operations
,
whereby
he
could
,
intellectually
and
emotionally
,
rejoice
in
the
beauty
of
life
without
interfering
with
his
perpetual
material
and
financial
calculations
.
And
when
it
came
to
women
and
morals
,
which
involved
so
much
relating
to
beauty
,
happiness
,
a
sense
of
distinction
and
variety
in
living
,
he
was
but
now
beginning
to
suspect
for
himself
at
least
that
apart
from
maintaining
organized
society
in
its
present
form
there
was
no
basis
for
this
one-life
,
one-love
idea
.
How
had
it
come
about
that
so
many
people
agreed
on
this
single
point
,
that
it
was
good
and
necessary
to
marry
one
woman
and
cleave
to
her
until
death
?
He
did
not
know
.
It
was
not
for
him
to
bother
about
the
subtleties
of
evolution
,
which
even
then
was
being
noised
abroad
,
or
to
ferret
out
the
curiosities
of
history
in
connection
with
this
matter
.
He
had
no
time
.
Suffice
it
that
the
vagaries
of
temperament
and
conditions
with
which
he
came
into
immediate
contact
proved
to
him
that
there
was
great
dissatisfaction
with
that
idea
.
People
did
not
cleave
to
each
other
until
death
;
and
in
thousands
of
cases
where
they
did
,
they
did
not
want
to
.
Quickness
of
mind
,
subtlety
of
idea
,
fortuitousness
of
opportunity
,
made
it
possible
for
some
people
to
right
their
matrimonial
and
social
infelicities
;
whereas
for
others
,
because
of
dullness
of
wit
,
thickness
of
comprehension
,
poverty
,
and
lack
of
charm
,
there
was
no
escape
from
the
slough
of
their
despond
.
They
were
compelled
by
some
devilish
accident
of
birth
or
lack
of
force
or
resourcefulness
to
stew
in
their
own
juice
of
wretchedness
,
or
to
shuffle
off
this
mortal
coil
--
which
under
other
circumstances
had
such
glittering
possibilities
--
via
the
rope
,
the
knife
,
the
bullet
,
or
the
cup
of
poison
.
"
I
would
die
,
too
,
"
he
thought
to
himself
,
one
day
,
reading
of
a
man
who
,
confined
by
disease
and
poverty
,
had
lived
for
twelve
years
alone
in
a
back
bedroom
attended
by
an
old
and
probably
decrepit
housekeeper
.
A
darning-needle
forced
into
his
heart
had
ended
his
earthly
woes
.
