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The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
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discussed and the problem of their eventual acceptance or
non-acceptance carefully weighed.

"The trouble with Mrs. Cowperwood," observed Mrs. Simms, "is that
she is too gauche. The whole thing was much too showy. The idea
of her portrait at one end of the gallery and that Gerome at the
other! And then this item in the Press this morning! Why, you'd
really think they were in society." Mrs. Simms was already a little
angry at having let herself be used, as she now fancied she had
been, by Taylor Lord and Kent McKibben, both friends of hers.

What did you think of the crowd?" asked Norrie, buttering a roll.

"Why, it wasn't representative at all, of course. We were the
most important people they had there, and I'm sorry now that we
went. Who are the Israelses and the Hoecksemas, anyhow? That
dreadful woman!" (She was referring to Mrs. Hoecksema.) "I never
listened to duller remarks in my life."

"I was talking to Haguenin of the Press in the afternoon," observed
Norrie. "He says that Cowperwood failed in Philadelphia before
he came here, and that there were a lot of lawsuits. Did you ever
hear that?"

"No. But she says she knows the Drakes and the Walkers there.
I've been intending to ask Nellie about that. I have often wondered
why he should leave Philadelphia if he was getting along so well.
People don't usually do that."

Simms was envious already of the financial showing Cowperwood was
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