In part it was an awesome place to him, for here gathered all that he most respected on this earth--wealth, place, and fame.

The majority of the celebrities with whom he had tipped glasses in his day as manager hailed from this self-centered and populous spot.

The most inviting stories of pleasure and luxury had been told of places and individuals here.

He knew it to be true that unconsciously he was brushing elbows with fortune the livelong day; that a hundred or five hundred thousand gave no one the privilege of living more than comfortably in so wealthy a place.

Fashion and pomp required more ample sums, so that the poor man was nowhere.