In one scene, the shifting fortunes of the real estate market cost Samuel Ross' partner 50 thousand dollars.  
In one scene, the shifting fortunes of the real estate market cost Samuel Ross' partner 50 thousand dollars.  Earlier, the reading of a will by Mr. O'Brien prompts one of the main characters to abandon his post as director of the family carriage company and take a trip to Cairo, where he encounters his one-time flame Letty Pace.  Chapter 38 describes a meeting between Mrs. Sommerville and Mrs. Craig who speculate about the peculiar relationship of a newly arrived couple in Hyde Park.  Earlier the discovery of a toy lamb allows the protagonist to ascertain the existence of Vesta, a child fathered by his partner in Columbus with the deceased Senator Brander.  Ultimately, Lester Kane cannot overcome the social strictures placed upon his relationship with the title figure in, for 10 points, what 1911 novel named for a poor though pretty girl from an immigrant German family and written by Theodore Dreiser.
In one scene, the shifting fortunes of the real estate market cost Samuel Ross' partner 50 thousand dollars.  
Jennie Gerhardt