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Theodore Dreiser

Jennie Gerhardt

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    Drifting in this fashion, wining, dining, drinking the waters of this curative spring and that, traveling in luxurious ease and taking no physical exercise, finally altered his body from a vigorous, quick-moving, well-balanced organism into one where plethora of substance was clogging every essential function. His liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas--every organ, in fact--had been overtaxed for some time to keep up the process of digestion and elimination. In the past seven years he had become uncomfortably heavy.
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    Letty was all ears for his troubles. She would have pillowed his solid head upon her breast in a moment if that had been possible.
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    Circumstances conspired to make her the logical solution of his mental quandary at this time.
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    It is an exceptional thing to find beauty, youth, compatibility, intelligence, your own point of view--softened and charmingly emotionalized--in another.
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    During the reading of the will Lester had sat as stolid as an ox.
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    "A man with a little money," said Mr. Watson, "is just like a cat with a bell around its neck. Every rat knows exactly where it is and what it is doing."
    "That's an apt simile," assented Lester, bitterly.
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    It is one thing to nurse a single thrust, another to have the wound opened from time to time by additional stabs.
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    Gerhardt, having become an inmate of the Hyde Park home, at once bestirred himself about the labors which he felt instinctively concerned him.
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    The plan for a residence in Hyde Park was not long in taking shape.
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    I thought I would take the liberty of intruding on you,
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