Page 17 (1/1)

To enjoy the sensation as often as possible, he subscribed to all the reviews dealing with book-collecting in general, and American history in particular, and as allusions to his library abounded in the pages of these journals, which for proht of the interest which would be excited if the persons he , were suddenly to be told that he was the possessor of the Gryce Americana

Most timidities have such secret coh to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation With a more confident person she would not have dared to dwell so long on one topic, or to show such exaggerated interest in it; but she had rightly guessed that Mr Gryce's egois constant nurture fro an undercurrent of thought while she appeared to be sailing on the surface of conversation; and in this case her mental excursion took the form of a rapid survey of Mr Percy Gryce's future as combined with her own The Gryces were from Albany, and but lately introduced to the metropolis, where the mother and son had come, after old Jefferson Gryce's death, to take possession of his house in Madison Avenue--an appalling house, all brown stone without and black walnut within, with the Gryce library in a fire-proof annex that looked like aMr Gryce's arrival had fluttered the irl has no mother to palpitate for her she must needs be on the alert for herself Lily, therefore, had not only contrived to put herself in the young man's way, but had made the acquaintance of Mrs Gryce, a monumental woman with the voice of a pulpit orator and a mind preoccupied with the iniquities of her servants, who came sometimes to sit with Mrs Peniston and learn frogling groceries out of the house Mrs Gryce had a kind of iarded with suspicion, but she subscribed to Institutions when their annual reports showed an impressive surplus Her domestic duties were manifold, for they extended from furtive inspections of the servants' bedrooms to unannounced descents to the cellar; but she had never allowed herself many pleasures Once, however, she had had a special edition of the Saruyilt album in which their letters of thanks were pasted for-room table