Owen Johnson
Making Money
Paperback
(Forgotten Books Feb. 17, 2019)
Excerpt from Making MoneyTom Beauchamp Crocker, familiarly known as Bojo, had sent his baggage ahead, eager to enjoy the delights one enjoys at twenty-four, when the long ap prenticeship of school and college is ended and the city is waiting with all the mystery of that uncharted dominion The World. He went his way with long, swinging steps, smiling from the pure delight of being alive, amazed at everything: at the tangled stream of nations flowing past him; at the prodigious number of entrancing eyes which glanced at him from under provoking brims; at the Sheer flights of blazing win dows, shutting out the feeble stars; at the vigor and vitality on the Sidewalks; at the flooded lights from Sparkling Shop windows; at the rolling procession of incalculable wealth on the Avenue.Everywhere was the stir of returning crowds, the end of the summer's hot isolation, the reopening of gilded theaters, the throngn of hotels, and the dis plays of radiant shop fronts, preparing for the win ter's campaign. In the crush of the Avenue was the note Of home-coming, in taxicabs and coupés piled high with luggage and brown-faced children hanging at the windows, acclaiming familiar landmarks with piping cries. Tradesmen and all the world of little business, all the world that must prepare to feed, clothe, and amuse the winter metropolis, were pour ing in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 1330348923 / 9781330348925
- Pages
- 352
- Weight
- 16.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.7 in.
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