The Wall Street Girl
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Bartlett Frederick Orin. The Wall Street Girl
CHAPTER I. DON RECEIVES A JOLT
CHAPTER II. IT BECOMES NECESSARY TO EAT
CHAPTER III. THE QUEEN WAS IN THE PARLOR
CHAPTER IV. CONCERNING SANDWICHES
CHAPTER V. BUSINESS
CHAPTER VI. TWO GIRLS
CHAPTER VII. ROSES
CHAPTER VIII. A MAN OF AFFAIRS
CHAPTER IX. IT WILL NEVER DO
CHAPTER X. DICTATION
CHAPTER XI. STEAK, WITH MUSHROOMS AND ADVICE
CHAPTER XII. A SOCIAL WIDOW
CHAPTER XIII. DEAR SIR–
CHAPTER XIV. IN REPLY
CHAPTER XV. COST
CHAPTER XVI. A MEMORANDUM
CHAPTER XVII. ON THE WAY HOME
CHAPTER XVIII. A DISCOURSE ON SALARIES
CHAPTER XIX. A LETTER
CHAPTER XX. STARS
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XXII. THE SENSIBLE THING
CHAPTER XXIII. LOOKING AHEAD
CHAPTER XXIV. VACATIONS
CHAPTER XXV. IN THE PARK
CHAPTER XXVI. ONE STUYVESANT
CHAPTER XXVII. THE STARS AGAIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. SEEING
CHAPTER XXIX. MOSTLY SALLY
CHAPTER XXX. DON EXPLAINS
CHAPTER XXXI. SALLY DECIDES
CHAPTER XXXII. BARTON APPEARS
CHAPTER XXXIII. A BULLY WORLD
CHAPTER XXXIV. DON MAKES GOOD
CHAPTER XXXV “HOME, JOHN”
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In spite of the continued efforts of idealists to belittle it, there is scarcely a fact of human experience capable of more universal substantiation than that in order to live it is necessary to eat. The corollary is equally true: in order to eat it is necessary to pay.
Yet until now Pendleton had been in a position to ignore, if not to refute, the latter statement. There was probably no detail of his daily existence calling for less thought or effort than this matter of dining. Opportunities were provided on every hand,–at the houses of his friends, at his club, at innumerable cafés and hotels,–and all that he was asked to contribute was an appetite.
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“Last fall.”
“What you been doing since then?”
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