The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

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Arnold Bennett. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

Table of Contents

THE CARD

CHAPTER I

THE DANCE

CHAPTER III

THE PANTECHNICON

CHAPTER IV

WRECKING OF A LIFE

CHAPTER V

THE MERCANTILE MARINE

CHAPTER VI

HIS BURGLARY

CHAPTER VII

THE RESCUER OF DAMES

CHAPTER VIII

RAISING A WIGWAM

CHAPTER IX

THE GREAT NEWSPAPER WAR

CHAPTER X

HIS INFAMY

CHAPTER XI

IN THE ALPS

CHAPTER XII

THE SUPREME HONOUR

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Arnold Bennett

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Either the question or the tone sent the Countess off into carillons of amusement. Everybody could see that Denry had made the Countess laugh tremendously. It was on this note that the waltz finished. She was still laughing when he bowed to her (as taught by Ruth Earp). He could not comprehend why she had so laughed, save on the supposition that he was more humorous than he had suspected. Anyhow, he laughed too, and they parted laughing. He remembered that he had made a marked effect (though not one of laughter) on the tailor by quickly returning the question, "Are you?" And his unpremeditated stroke with the Countess was similar. When he had got ten yards on his way towards Harold Etches and a fiver he felt something in his hand. The Countess's fan was sticking between his fingers. It had unhooked itself from her chain. He furtively pocketed it.

"Just the same as dancing with any other woman!" He told this untruth in reply to a question from Shillitoe. It was the least he could do. And any other young man in his place would have said as much or as little.

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