[The Titan by Theodore Dreiser]@TWC D-Link bookThe Titan CHAPTER VI 2/26
My plan is to wait a little while and then build a really fine house so that we won't need to rebuild.
We're going to go to Europe next spring, if things go right, and we may get some ideas over there.
I'm going to put in a good big gallery," he concluded.
"While we're traveling we might as well see what we can find in the way of pictures and so on." Aileen was thrilling with anticipation.
"Oh, Frank," she said to him, quite ecstatically, "you're so wonderful! You do everything you want, don't you ?" "Not quite," he said, deprecatingly; "but it isn't for not wanting to. Chance has a little to say about some of these chings, Aileen." She stood in front of him, as she often did, her plump, ringed hands on his shoulders, and looked into those steady, lucid pools--his eyes. Another man, less leonine, and with all his shifting thoughts, might have had to contend with the handicap of a shifty gaze; he fronted the queries and suspicions of the world with a seeming candor that was as disarming as that of a child.
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