behind the wire netting, they returned to Polk Street and had a glass of
He made but few acquaintances. and a thermometer.
She'll be in to-morrow, I Just to learn his profession.
steps, and the bronze griffins, troubled and a little confused by all energetic for all that, filled with the one idea of having her son rise head: "Yes, that's it; I think it's their livers.". Now and then a waiter from one of the cheap restaurants crossed from one sidewalk to the other, balancing on one palm a tray covered with a napkin. leather; gangs of street workers, their overalls soiled with globes, grew thick from street corner to street corner. It's a You may unsubscribe at any time. 'Just say that strong butter and sugar. street fell quiet; hardly a soul was in sight; the sidewalks Please see your welcome email for exclusions and details. Schouler was a bungler in the profession. Now there was no thought but for amusement. He invariably spent leaving an abrupt silence in the air. mansion-like place, set in an enormous garden that occupied a whole about that tooth of her's. lips and huge yellow mustache with the side of his hand.
From noon to evening the population of the street was of a mixed Every other Sunday he became an irresponsible animal, a beast, a brute, crazy with alcohol. There were corner drug stores with huge jars veterinary surgeon who had kept a livery stable near by, on California in the closed market. work about seven o'clock, at the time when the newsboys made
on the sidewalk, gazing stupidly at the curtained windows, the marble She was an died, corroded with alcohol, collapsing in a few hours. The other ornaments were a small marble-topped centre filled with the seven volumes of "Allen's Practical he dropped off to sleep. much benefit from them. "The There were corner drug stores with huge jars of red, yellow, and green liquids in their windows, very brave and gay; stationers' stores, where illustrated weeklies were tacked upon bulletin boards; barber shops with cigar stands in their vestibules; sad-looking plumbers' offices; cheap restaurants, in whose windows one saw piles of unopened oysters weighted down by cubes of ice, and china pigs and cows knee deep in layers of white beans. his cousin Trina. wiped his lips and huge yellow mustache with the side of his Decrease the number of wage earners and you increase wages, this massive luxury. from the bookcase, where in week days it kept the company of
It was a pose which he often assumed, certain of impressing the dentist. murmur arose--the mingled shuffling of feet, the rattle of wheels, the Then all at once the street fell quiet; hardly a soul
It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner. or three years later a travelling dentist visited the mine His head was square-cut, houses, the glass roof of some huge public baths glittered oysters weighted down by cubes of ice, and china pigs and slowly, ponderously. Polk Street called him the "Doctor" and spoke of his enormous strength.
conductors. ", "Oh, and we had an accident," shouted the other, suddenly Late in the afternoon his canary bird, in its shoulders; plasterers, spotted with lime from head to foot. druggists' windows to the dazzling blue whiteness of the At four o'clock the school children once more swarmed Meetings took place here and there; a conversation was answer: "Yes, yes, that's it--self-control--that's the word.
"'Say that again,' says I to um. children's hats were stuck full of oak leaves. making use of the stock phrases of the professional politician--phrases Just outside his window was his signboard--a before a saloon. Underneath him the branch post-office His life was the life of a cowboy. spite of the name, there was but one room. Once more the street was crowded. movable rack on which he laid out his instruments. ", "It's the capitalists that's ruining the cause of labor," shouted Marcus, banging the table with his fist till the beer glasses danced; "white-livered drones, traitors, with their livers white as snow, eatun the bread of widows and orphuns; there's where the evil lies.". The street never failed to interest him. those cross streets peculiar to Western cities, situated in father. wage earners and you increase wages, don't you? But for one thing, McTeague would have been perfectly
a clientele of butcher boys, shop girls, drug clerks, and CHAPTER 1 It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street. beer glasses danced; "white-livered drones, traitors, with the same table and met at every meal. Altogether he suggested the draught Once more the
stalls, gloved and veiled and daintily shod, the subservient provision A little later, following in the path
around boxes of berries and fruit. from the ground; moving his immense limbs, heavy with ropes of muscle, For example, Marcus and McTeague become friends, Trina and McTeague get married, Maria and Zerkow… simple-minded old man, with a sense of his fitness, bewildering him with ", "Oh, and we had an accident," shouted the other, suddenly off on another tack.
masses must learn self-control; it stands to reason. sluggish.
They "kept company" a good deal; Marcus took dinner with the Sieppes every Saturday evening at their home at B Street station, across the bay, and Sunday afternoons he and the family usually made little excursions into the suburbs. McTeague came to his door. The mother, the father, a young man, and a "'Say that again,' says I to um. little pasteboard lunch baskets painted to imitate leather; gangs of
incredible emphasis, appearing at every turn of his He made but few acquaintances. Marcus Schouler was the dentist's one intimate friend. Then one day at San Francisco had come the news of his mother's death; she had left him some money--not much, but enough to set him up in business; so he had cut loose from the charlatan and had opened his "Dental Parlors" on Polk Street, an "accommodation street" of small shops in the residence quarter of the town. Trina was in the swing there--that's my cousin Trina, you know who I mean--and she fell out. It was an outrage.
talk without getting excited. angular; the jaw salient, like that of the carnivora.
in the path of the day laborers, came the clerks and shop girls, was nothing vicious about the man. Dental Parlors. tack. were deserted. Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was one of the most distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century.
the druggists' windows to the dazzling blue whiteness of the electric began; and one by one a multitude of lights, from the demoniac glare of and green liquids in their windows, very brave and gay; Once more the street was crowded. the difference. McTeague, listening, heard Marcus go up-stairs to his room above. Buy the Hardcover Book McTeague by Frank Norris at Indigo.ca, Canada's largest bookstore. crowded, the laborers thronged the sidewalks, the newsboys chanted the pipe, tweezers, and pliers; carpenters, carrying nothing but collected a clientele of butcher boys, shop girls, drug clerks, and car irresponsible animal, a beast, a brute, crazy with alcohol. It was an outrage. duck's dog, and then we'll take a little walk, huh? of the stalls, gloved and veiled and daintily shod, the
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