Human Affairs (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Human Affairs When Mr. Becker died, his widow found herself with her two daughters in a distressing situation. It was as if the Fortune which had carried Mr. Becker so far had been peculiar to himself, impossible to bequeath, however much he might desire it - departing, this Fortune or Demon of his, finally from the world in company with his soul. The big New York house in Thirty-fourth Street near Fifth Avenue had to go, with all its appurtenances of servants, and horses, and carriages, and, as her daughters more than poor Mrs. Becker herself ultimately noticed, most of what it stood for in the way of social ease and importance. The big house, in fact, ere many months had passed saw their faces no more, Mrs. Becker having made up her mind at length to the inevitable boarding-house in West 56th. Street, where, secured from absolute want by some relics picked from the wreck, she tried to enliven her stunned wits, and to use herself to her new and narrow and immensely dreary and ugly existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.