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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Porter Subjects: Literary Criticism / General Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Poetry / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. CHAINED TO AN ICEBERG. Hillaton, the suburban city in which the Arnots resided, was not very distant from New York, and drew much of its prosperity from its relations with the metropolis. It prided itself much on being a university town, but more because many old families of extremely blue blood and large wealth gave tone and color to its society. It is true that this highest social circle was very exclusive, and formed but a small fraction of the population; but the people in general had come to speak of our society, as being unusually good, just as they commended to strangers the architecture of our college buildings, though they had little to do with either. Mrs, Arnot's blood, however, was as blue as that of the most ancie'nt and aristocratic of her neighbors, while in character and culture she had few equals'. But with the majority of those most cerulean in their vital fluid the fact that she possessed large wealth in her own name, and was the wife of a man engaged in a colossal business, weighed more than all her graces and ancestral honors. Young Haldane's employer, Mr. Arnot, was, indeed, a man of business and method, for the one absorbed his very soul, and the other divided his life into cubes and right angles of manner and habit. It could scarcely be said that he had settled down into ruts, for this would presuppose the passiveness of a nature controlled...

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