Felix O'Day
Book Description
Felix O'Day is a Quixotic Irishman who sacrifices his title and fortune to save his father from disgrace. Then he has to come to New York to find his foolish young wife who has run away and who makes trouble all along the line. The scene is laid in New York. While Felix commands the entire sympathy of the reader and the special characters are clearly drawn, the book lacks the charm of many former ...
MoreFelix O'Day is a Quixotic Irishman who sacrifices his title and fortune to save his father from disgrace. Then he has to come to New York to find his foolish young wife who has run away and who makes trouble all along the line. The scene is laid in New York. While Felix commands the entire sympathy of the reader and the special characters are clearly drawn, the book lacks the charm of many former works.
CHAPTER I Broadway on dry nights, or rather that part known as the Great ,Vhite 'Yay, is a crowded thoroughfare, dominated by lofty buildings, the sky-line studded with constellations or colored signs pencilled in fire. Broadway on wet, rain~renched nights is the fairy concourse of the V'londer City of the 'Vorld, its asphalt splashed with liquid jewels afloat in molten gold. Across �this :flood of frenzied- brilliance surge hurrying mobs, dodging the ceaseless traffic, trampling underfoot the wealth of the Indies, striding through pools or quicksilver, leaping gutt~rs filIEXl to the brim with melted rubies-horse, car, and man so many blaek silhouettes against 8. tremulous sea. of light. Along this blinding whirl blaze the playhouses, their wide portals aflame ,vith crackling globes" toward which swarm bevies or pleasure-seeking moths, their eyes dazzled by the glare. Some with heads and throats bare dart from costly broughams, the mountings of their sleek, rain...
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