Excerpt from Vanity Square a Story of Fifth Avenue Life
When the last guest had gone, Uxhill, with a yawn of boredom unrelieved, dropped in a chair.
"Add six zeros and see what they come to. Add sixty. Add six hundred. The result is the same. They amount to nothing."
He looked at the ceiling. It was charming. Cupids sprawled there, laughing idly at the carpet beneath. He looked at his wife. She, too, was charming. Although the mother of a big-little girl, she seemed a girl herself. He looked about the room. It was charming also, long and wide, fitted with things harmonious. They bored him.
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