“So he said,” I replied.
“He may be right,” she said. “Perhaps it is. So many things turn ugly when you look at them closely ... friendship even.”
Then she dropped it.
As it crashed on the hearthstone she turned, without a glance at the fragments or at me, and walked out of the room.
Three days later her engagement to Lord Porteous was announced.
CHAPTER XIII SUCCESS
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The ready explanation of Galt’s rise in a few years to the rôle of Wall Street monarch is that he was a master profit maker. The way of it was phenomenal. His touch was that of genius, daring, unaccountable, mysteriously guided by an inner mentality. And when the results appeared they were so natural, inevitable, that men wondered no less at their own stupidity than at his prescience. Why had they not seen the same opportunity?