Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


Also, with shyness and perturbation, Young Dick wandered down
Montgomery Street and vacillated among the many pawnshops that graced
that thoroughfare. At last, diving desperately into one, he managed to
exchange for eight dollars and a ticket his gold watch that he knew
was worth fifty at the very least.


Dinner in the Nob Hill palace was served at six-thirty. He arrived at
six-forty-five and encountered Mrs. Summerstone. She was a stout,
elderly, decayed gentlewoman, a daughter of the great Porter-
Rickington family that had shaken the entire Pacific Coast with its
financial crash in the middle seventies. Despite her stoutness, she
suffered from what she called shattered nerves.

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