The Easiest Way - Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911
The Easiest Way - Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911
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would make
the circuit from Los Angeles to 'Frisco, and then all around again.
He drinks his whiskey straight, plays his faro fairly, and is not
particular about the women with whom he goes. He started life in
the Western country at an early age. His natural talents, both in
literature and in general adaptability to all conditions of life,
were early exhibited, but his alma mater was the bar-room, and
the faculty of that college its bartenders and gamblers and general
habitues.
He seldom has social engagements outside of certain disreputable establishments, where a genial personality or an over-burdened pocketbook gives _entree_, and the rules of conventionality have never even been whispered. His love affairs, confined to this class of women, have seldom lasted more than a week or ten days. His editors know him as a brilliant genius, irresponsible, unreliable, but at times inestimably valuable. He cares little for personal appearance beyond a certain degree of neatness. He is quick on the trigge
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