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Up to the hour of his wife's death Sie of appetite, pitiless, self-sufficient, and self-absorbed--the type of man often described by aood to his fa his ere adequate excuse for railrecking

He hty-sixth Street each week-daywith a bundle of newspapers under his ar jowls and protuberant belly, who never offered any one a seat and did not expect such courtesy fro, and was often so designated by eary women, whom he forced to stand while he read his reeted hi and curt, and the elevator-boys at the Pratt building were careful not to elbow hi bear, and yet his business ability ad he did had a certain sweep He was not penurious or mean in his wars On the contrary, he despised the ses; but in a strife with his equals he was inexorable--he pushed his adversaries to the last ditch, and into it, remorseless as a mountain land-slide

All the tenderness in his nature, all his faith in goodness and virtue, he reserved for his home To his wife (a woman of siht and buxoent provider, owns and parties He had no sons, and this was a hidden sorrow to hi all his paternal pride and care in his daughters He could deny the when they wheedled hi to "work hiranite With means to build on the east side of the Park, he had deliberately chosen the Riverside Drive in order to show his contempt for the social climbers of upper Fifth Avenue, and neither se his plan

His house was a dignified structure exteriorly, but within was dohters, ere quite unable to change his habits after they were once set He refused to consider their suggestions as to furniture The interior was, as Britt had said, not unlike a very ornately formal French hotel, and this resemblance arose from the fact that he had once enjoyed a pleasant stay in a house of this sort; and when the decorator submitted a number of "schemes," he chose the one which made the pleasantest impression on his mind