She is not so much to blame for this as her father, and perhaps her mother, who appears a weak, spiritless woman, a faint echo of her husband.

It is here that the infernal Wall Street atmosphere comes in that she has breathed all her life.

Does it not puzzle you, in view of my relations to her, that she should be out driving with Arnault ?" "Yes, Graydon, it does." "Well, Arnault is a money-lender, and I am satisfied that in some way he has her father in his power.

Many of these brokers are like cats.
They will hold on to anything by one nail, and the first thing you know they are on their feet again all right.

As soon as Wildmere makes a lucky strike in the stock-market he will extricate himself and his daughter at the same time.