[The Fighting Chance by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fighting Chance CHAPTER III SHOTOVER 5/34
Of course it doesn't make any difference to Grace or to me, but I fancy you've already heard from it." "Oh, yes.
All I care about is how my mother took it." "Of course; she was cut up I suppose ?" "Yes, you know how she would look at a thing of that sort; not that any of the nine and seventy jarring sets would care, but those few thousands invading the edges, butting in--half or three-quarters inside--are the people who can't afford to overlook the victim of a fashionable club's displeasure--those, and a woman like my mother, and several other decent-minded people who happen to count in town." Ferrall, his legs swinging busily, thought again; then: "Who was the girl, Stephen ?" "I don't think the papers mentioned her name," said Siward gravely. "Oh--I beg your pardon; I thought she was some notorious actress--everybody said so.
...
Who were those callow fools who put you up to it? ...
Never mind if you don't care to tell.
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