Hence jewels, laces, and clothes; hence elaborate
dinners, the talk of the town: hence teas, receptions, opera
parties, week-end parties at their hired country seat on Long
Island; dances for Corinne; dinners for Corinne; birthday parties
for Corinne; everything, in fact, for Corinne, from manicures to
pug dogs and hunters.
His two redeeming qualities were his affection for his wife and
his respect for his word. He had no child of his own, and Corinne,
though respectful never showed him any affection. He had sent Jack
to a Southern school and college, managing meanwhile the little
property his father had left him, which, with some wild lands in
the Cumberland Mountains, practically worthless, was the boy's
whole inheritance, and of late had treated him as if he had been
his own son.
As to his own affairs, close as he sailed to the wind in his money
transactions--so close sometimes that the Exchange had more than
once overhauled his dealings--it was generally admitted that when
Arthur Breen gave his WORD--a difficult thing often to get--he
never broke it.
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