Under the Skylights
Under the Skylights
Free DownloadA collection of three stories bearing upon the conditions of artistic and literary life in Chicago. It is a book à clef, no doubt, yet the portraiture is rather typical than specific, and the traits of each character are combined by a sort of eclectic process.The Downfall of Abner Joyce.--Little O'Grady vs. the Grindstone.--Dr. Gowdy and the Squash.
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loftily denominated the Temple of Art, a vast structure full of theatres and recital-halls and studios and assembly-rooms and dramatic schools; but this was the first time she had favoured the humbler building, at least on the formal, official Saturday afternoon. Long had they looked for her coming, and now at last the most desirable of all the desirable people was here.
"Ah-h-h!" breathed Little O'Grady, who made reliefs in plastina.
It was for Mrs. Palmer Pence that the samovar steamed to-day in the dimly lighted studio of Stephen Giles, for her that the candles fluttered within their pink shades, for her that the white peppermints lay in orderly little rows upon the silver tray, for her that young Medora Giles, lately back to her brother from Paris, wore her freshest gown and drew tea with her prettiest smile. Mrs. Pence was building a new house and there was more than an even chance that Stephen Giles might decorate it. He held a middle ground between the "artist-architects" on the one hand
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