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"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"CHEV (V.O.)\n I kill people. I'm a professional hitman.\n I freelance for a major West Coast crime\n syndicate.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CARLITO\n I'm surprised to see you.\n \n CHEV",
"CHEV\n Carlito ordered this?\n \n HOOD #1\n (ignoring it)",
"friend.\n \n CHEV\n What can I say. Look, Carlito, I need",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"I\n t's CHEV, fully dressed. He meets CARLITO face to face\n underwater and points up with his index finger.",
"CARLITO\n C I'm sorry.\n \n UT TO CHEV and CARLITO'S legs treading water to keep their",
"CHEV (CONT'D)\n What's the matter?\n \n CARLITO\n (shrugs)",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"CHEV\n Then you know what happened?\n \n CARLITO\n Word travels fast. You amaze me, my",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"CHEV\n No shit.\n \n CARLITO\n Why don't you sit down?",
"CHEV nods. CARLITO places the device carefully on the table.\n \n CARLITO (CONT'D)\n (bemused)"
],
[
"We see him sitting on CHEV'S bed ... CHEV is visible in the\n frame, unconscious behind VERONA. Pale nicotine sunlight",
"CHEV finds himself drifting into a dream state.\n \n FLASH CUT TO:\n \n INT CAB, TIME UNKNOWN",
"An IV bag bubbles, a portable HEART MONITOR beeps. The\n CAMERA follows the drip down to CHEV'S arm. He's lying on",
"He crawls/stumbles into ...\n \n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS",
"CHEV collapses to his knees, breaks it open and snorts it\n right out of the bag like a pig on his elbows and knees. The\n BROTHERS find this hilarious.",
"5\n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS\n \n ... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a",
"The HOOD drops to his knees, eyes rolling back in his head,\n blood rushing from his nose. CHEV glances quickly around for\n witnesses - then backs into the hallway, letting the door",
".. and has the gun removed from his hand by CHEV, who has\n climbed onto the landing skids, hooking his dead arm inside\n the passenger space, going up with them.",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"The COPS continue down the hall. Behind them, from the door\n they checked, CHEV tiptoes out wearing a blue hospital\n johnnie, tied in the back with his ass hanging out, trying to",
"to poison you in your sleep. Yeah, you\n heard me...\n \n We stay with CHEV'S POV as he flashes a frantic glance around",
"fifth of an injection will do.\n \n CHEV tries to remember all this while zoning in and out of",
"The sliding doors to the ER swoosh open as a gurney is\n wheeled in by paramedics. CHEV walks quickly in behind them,",
"CHEV begins to fade again. He slumps back, looking as though\n he might pass out. One of the BROTHERS catches him, holds",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"He rounds a corner and freezes in his tracks: three COPS are\n at the admissions counter ... a NURSE is gesturing in CHEV'S\n direction. They look up toward him.",
"CHEV\n Yo! Right here!\n \n CUT TO:",
"CHEV, still drying, hair all fucked up and walking\n erratically, enters the restaurant. Everyone turns to look\n at the crazy man, nervously.",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"The busy ER is buzzing with activity. CHEV looks around\n desperately. The COPS are right on his tail.\n \n Suddenly the entrance doors BURST OPEN ... a patient is"
],
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"CHEV collapses to his knees, breaks it open and snorts it\n right out of the bag like a pig on his elbows and knees. The\n BROTHERS find this hilarious.",
"CHEV (V.O.)\n I kill people. I'm a professional hitman.\n I freelance for a major West Coast crime\n syndicate.",
".. and has the gun removed from his hand by CHEV, who has\n climbed onto the landing skids, hooking his dead arm inside\n the passenger space, going up with them.",
"THE SYRINGE RIGHT TO THE HILT INTO THE BACK OF HIS NECK.\n \n CHEV drops to his knees. His HEARTBEAT is deafening,",
"Yeah. Just ... die.\n \n CHEV'S HEARTBEAT starts to slow. The wooden elevator starts\n down. He looks around, making eye contact with the other",
"to poison you in your sleep. Yeah, you\n heard me...\n \n We stay with CHEV'S POV as he flashes a frantic glance around",
"fifth of an injection will do.\n \n CHEV tries to remember all this while zoning in and out of",
"CHEV gets to his feet, pulls out his gun, puts it to the back\n of ALEX'S head.\n \n CHEV pulls the trigger twice.",
"The HOOD drops to his knees, eyes rolling back in his head,\n blood rushing from his nose. CHEV glances quickly around for\n witnesses - then backs into the hallway, letting the door",
"An IV bag bubbles, a portable HEART MONITOR beeps. The\n CAMERA follows the drip down to CHEV'S arm. He's lying on",
"it is. All I know is once it binds with\n your blood cells, you're fucked, baby...\n and believe me, it's done binded. By now",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"CHEV grabs a box of trash bags, rips it open and takes one\n out. He opens the bag and starts dumping CAFFEINE in: Jolt,",
"And the other part?\n \n CHEV\n The poison? Yeah, that's true too.",
"the tube from CHEV's back - CHEV winces in pain. His\n HEARTRATE starts to slow almost immediately.\n \n CARLITO",
"f you want, I can load you up with\n something, you'll go out in a beautiful\n dream.\n \n CHEV",
"idiot. Now you're dead for sure.\n \n CHEV\n Right.",
"CHEV'S moment of weakness passes. His face goes grim with\n vengeance as the mean bastard inside him kicks in. He looks\n DOC MILES in the eye.",
"CHEV begins to fade again. He slumps back, looking as though\n he might pass out. One of the BROTHERS catches him, holds",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's"
],
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"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CHEV (CONT'D)\n What's the matter?\n \n CARLITO\n (shrugs)",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"CARLITO\n C I'm sorry.\n \n UT TO CHEV and CARLITO'S legs treading water to keep their",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"friend.\n \n CHEV\n What can I say. Look, Carlito, I need",
"CHEV nods. CARLITO places the device carefully on the table.\n \n CARLITO (CONT'D)\n (bemused)",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"CARLITO squirts a little of the MILKY LIQUID.\n \n CHEV\n Is that what I think it is?",
"CARLITO\n I'm surprised to see you.\n \n CHEV",
"I know. But things have changed. There's\n an antidote. I can make a deal for it,\n but I've got to go alone.",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"CHEV\n No shit.\n \n CARLITO\n Why don't you sit down?",
"CHEV\n Then you know what happened?\n \n CARLITO\n Word travels fast. You amaze me, my",
"CHEV\n Carlito ordered this?\n \n HOOD #1\n (ignoring it)",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"CARLITO\n re you disrespecting me, Chev? Is that\n what you're doing?"
],
[
"KAYLO (CONT'D)\n Chev?\n \n CHEV\n Uh huh.",
"KAYLO looks up at his captors, miserably, as the phone clicks\n off. The CAMERA instantly flashes down to a low wide angle,",
"9.\n \n \n \n INT KAYLO'S HOUSE - SIMULTANEOUS",
"31.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n KAYLO\n Chev?",
"KAYLO\n I've got Verona.\n \n We see that KAYLO is duct taped to an office chair in what",
"Kaylo?\n \n KAYLO (V.O.)\n I've got Verona, man.",
"downtown, looking furtively over his shoulder as he talks.\n \n KAYLO\n Chev!",
"CHEV\n Present from Kaylo.\n \n But just as he's about to pull the trigger, he FREEZES...",
"KAYLO\n Where are we?\n \n Silence.",
"Kaylo. My man. So, where were you last\n night?\n \n SPLIT SCREEN WITH:",
"KAYLO (O.S.)\n Hello?\n \n CHEV",
"ALEX rises up, staggering, and advances on KAYLO, who drops\n the ROLLING PIN and cowers amidst the trash cans.",
"KAYLO\n What?\n \n CHEV",
"e shakes his head to clear it.\n \n KAYLO\n What?\n \n CHEV",
"I'd get out of here if I were you.\n \n He splits, leaving KAYLO with the body, the hand, etc. KAYLO",
"16 16\n KAYLO is late 20's, slightly plump, hispanic, with gelled",
"Ricky Verona. Anyone sees him you call\n me.\n \n KAYLO puts his hands up in the air, dumbfounded.",
"CHEV\n Yeah I am. Where's Kaylo?\n \n HOOD #2",
"his pocket and tosses the hand to a disgusted KAYLO, who\n tries to get away from it ...\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)",
"HEV pulls KAYLO around the corner, out of sight of the\n restaurant.\n \n CHEV\n motioning to the restaurant)"
],
[
"positions himself on top of her. EVE is completely out of\n her head, eyes closed, legs up in the air like a porn star.\n E",
"EVE (CONT'D)\n (incredulously)\n Tell me you're joking. Now you can't get",
"CHEV grabs the back of EVE'S purse and turns it upside down,\n spilling the contents all over the concrete. She spins\n around, just missing C",
"EVE\n (screaming after him)\n YOU'LL BURN IN HELL FOR THIS!!!\n \n CHEV",
"EVE (CONT'D)\n Get off! Are you kidding me?\n \n CHEV\n Take your clothes off.",
"his pink, smoking hand and jams it under his armpit, hopping\n up and down.\n \n EVE (O.S.)",
"OMAN (V.O.)\n Hey, this is Eve ...\n \n CHEV",
"EVE\n OK.\n \n Confused, she pads off to the bedroom to change.",
"He breaks away running, leaving EVE stranded half naked in\n the street, holding her torn dress up amidst a sea of gaping\n Chinese.",
"EVE\n (coldly)\n That was just totally uncalled for.\n \n CHEV",
"EVE (CONT'D)\n Take me right here in front of everyone.\n \n CHEV'S HEARTBEAT starts to pick up. He lifts her dress and",
"CHEV sits across from EVE in a tiny restaurant. An equally\n tiny VIETNAMESE WOMAN brings them menus.",
"EVE\n Help what?\n \n He starts grabbing at her. She pushes his hands away.",
"INT. EVE'S CAR - DAY\n \n EVE gets herself turned upright and stares at CHEV, hair full\n of windshield glass.",
"EVE\n No.\n \n CHEV\n Make love to me.",
"EXT. REAR EXIT, EVE'S BUILDING - CONTINUOUS\n \n From overhead, the CAMERA CORKSCREWS CLOCKWISE as CHEV",
"her hand and yanks her along.\n \n He spots EVE'S CAR parked BACKWARDS across the street and",
"EVE\n (furious, in disbelief)\n What's the matter with you?!!",
"Five BANGS on the door barely distract her.\n \n EVE (CONT'D)\n Just a minute.",
"58.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n EVE"
],
[
"CHEV'S moment of weakness passes. His face goes grim with\n vengeance as the mean bastard inside him kicks in. He looks\n DOC MILES in the eye.",
"to poison you in your sleep. Yeah, you\n heard me...\n \n We stay with CHEV'S POV as he flashes a frantic glance around",
"THE SYRINGE RIGHT TO THE HILT INTO THE BACK OF HIS NECK.\n \n CHEV drops to his knees. His HEARTBEAT is deafening,",
"CHEV gets to his feet, pulls out his gun, puts it to the back\n of ALEX'S head.\n \n CHEV pulls the trigger twice.",
"back to normal. He hands CHEV a vial of liquid.\n \n HAITIAN CABBIE (CONT'D)",
"CHEV collapses to his knees, breaks it open and snorts it\n right out of the bag like a pig on his elbows and knees. The\n BROTHERS find this hilarious.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"The HOOD drops to his knees, eyes rolling back in his head,\n blood rushing from his nose. CHEV glances quickly around for\n witnesses - then backs into the hallway, letting the door",
"The busy ER is buzzing with activity. CHEV looks around\n desperately. The COPS are right on his tail.\n \n Suddenly the entrance doors BURST OPEN ... a patient is",
"We see him sitting on CHEV'S bed ... CHEV is visible in the\n frame, unconscious behind VERONA. Pale nicotine sunlight",
"An IV bag bubbles, a portable HEART MONITOR beeps. The\n CAMERA follows the drip down to CHEV'S arm. He's lying on",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"This scene plays out as a continuous POV shot, right up\n until CHEV's face is revealed for the first time.)",
"The COPS continue down the hall. Behind them, from the door\n they checked, CHEV tiptoes out wearing a blue hospital\n johnnie, tied in the back with his ass hanging out, trying to",
"A second later THE DOOR BLOWS OFF IT'S HINGES as CHEV is\n tossed, upside down, through it to land on the cement in a",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"He rounds a corner and freezes in his tracks: three COPS are\n at the admissions counter ... a NURSE is gesturing in CHEV'S\n direction. They look up toward him.",
"fifth of an injection will do.\n \n CHEV tries to remember all this while zoning in and out of",
"CHEV begins to fade again. He slumps back, looking as though\n he might pass out. One of the BROTHERS catches him, holds",
"straight ahead. Suddenly a curious look comes over him.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n How much of this stuff did he say to"
],
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"VERONA whips the gun around as the bird rises, intending to\n .\n finish CHEV off from the air ...",
"escape, skips the next floor up, gets onto the roof.\n \n C",
"51.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA looks up at his CREW, gathered nervously around the",
"The PILOT starts to lift off in a blue panic. VERONA shoves\n CHEV aside and hops into the back seat, pointing his gun at",
"VERONA rolls his eyes.\n \n VERONA\n Give me a fucking break...",
"into the back seat as VERONA tries desperately to push him\n out.\n \n NEWS HELICOPTERS hover around the midair struggle like wasps,",
"VERONA (CONT'D)",
"For a beat, no one knows quite how to react. VERONA chuckles\n nervously.\n \n VERONA",
"73.\n \n \n \n EXT ROOF, SECONDS LATER",
"go limp, fall backwards ...\n \n Then, with a final rush of adrenaline, he grabs VERONA by the\n neck and pulls him along.",
"VERONA'S eyes bulge in disbelief. CHEV continues to strangle\n him until VERONA goes limp, glassy eyed ... CHEV finally lets",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n (shaking his head in disbelief)\n It's him. Alright, shut up.",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA\n lever. Snappy. Did you pretty good,",
"VERONA pantomimes jacking off for the boys.\n \n VERONA\n Alright.",
"HEV grabs the gun. They make for the fire escape.\n \n EXT FIRE ESCAPE, SECONDS LATER",
"4.\n CONTINUED: (2) VERONA(CONT'D)",
"corners. The whole floor has been cleared out - they've got\n the place all to themselves.\n \n VERONA",
"He clicks off, then sits there, seething.\n \n VERONA (CONT'D)\n (to the BOYZ)",
"one hand ... VERONA manages to work his up to CHEV'S\n shoulder, where the steel needle still pokes through. He",
"VERONA\n Oh, the antidote, huh?\n \n VERONA makes eye contact with his CREW, covering the"
],
[
"VERONA (CONT'D)",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n ... I fucking poisoned you in your sleep.\n How sick is that?... for the satisfaction",
"Verona, that little bitch ...\n \n ORLANDO\n I understand that. You've made that",
"4.\n CONTINUED: (2) VERONA(CONT'D)",
"VERONA'S eyes bulge in disbelief. CHEV continues to strangle\n him until VERONA goes limp, glassy eyed ... CHEV finally lets",
"51.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA looks up at his CREW, gathered nervously around the",
"VERONA rolls his eyes.\n \n VERONA\n Give me a fucking break...",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n Hey, it's been real. Probably should've\n thought twice before you whacked Don Kim.",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n (shaking his head in disbelief)\n It's him. Alright, shut up.",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA\n lever. Snappy. Did you pretty good,",
"come find me after all. Fucked up that\n you killed your own brother.\n \n VERONA\n You -",
"He clicks off, then sits there, seething.\n \n VERONA (CONT'D)\n (to the BOYZ)",
"For a beat, no one knows quite how to react. VERONA chuckles\n nervously.\n \n VERONA",
"VERONA whips the gun around as the bird rises, intending to\n .\n finish CHEV off from the air ...",
"He answers.\n \n VERONA (CONT'D)\n What's up, corpse.",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n ... asshole.\n 5A 5A",
"VERONA\n I'm nobody's little bitch, you hear me?\n He'll pay what I tell him to pay...!",
"the PILOT'S head.\n \n VERONA (CONT'D)\n That's right, motherfucker! FLY!",
"VERONA pantomimes jacking off for the boys.\n \n VERONA\n Alright.",
"VERONA\n WHO'S THE BITCH NOW?\n \n He blows CARLITO away with three shots."
],
[
"Ricky Verona. Anyone sees him you call\n me.\n \n KAYLO puts his hands up in the air, dumbfounded.",
"Ricky Verona ...\n \n CHEV\n (more to himself)\n Who would've thought that little bastard",
"CARLITO and RICKY VERONA sit side by side at the table. An\n iced bucket of champagne, good cigars. GOONS chill in the",
"What? What? You heard me. That son of\n a bitch Ricky Verona.\n \n AYLO",
"Anselmo job. In fact, Ricky Verona owes\n me seventy five hunna dollars.\n \n CHEV",
"may actually be the last thing I do,\n understand that? Copy me on that?\n \n KAYLO\n Ricky Verona?",
"CHEV\n Look, I got to find Ricky Verona ...\n \n ORLANDO\n Why would I know where ... ?",
"it is. So you see, I don't know where\n Ricky Verona is. Because if I knew where\n he is, I would probably be there right",
"pretense. Ricky Verona and myself did\n not \"pull the Anselmo job together.\" In\n fact, Ricky Verona fucked me on the",
"OK. I am not affiliated with Ricky\n Verona.\n \n CHEV\n (starting to lose it again)",
"RICKY VERONA and his CREW are in the back, watching a noisy\n satellite feed on dual plasma TV screens. A JAPANESE GIRL in",
"VERONA\n arlito? That's funny, I guess you\n didn't know... Carlito's my boy now,\n we're tight.",
"How about the jewelry I got off your\n faggot brother, you cocksucker?\n \n This stings VERONA. He pulls the phone away from his face,",
"5A 5A\n It's RICKY VERONA on the SCREEN, a young, irritatingly slick",
"51.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA looks up at his CREW, gathered nervously around the",
"VERONA rolls his eyes.\n \n VERONA\n Give me a fucking break...",
"KAYLO\n Chev! I just saw Verona's brother going\n into Charlie O's.",
"VERONA (CONT'D)",
"VERONA\n (sarcastic)\n Oh ... you think? Jesus ...\n \n His cell phone rings. He checks it.",
"t RINGS. RICKY VERONA answers.\n \n VERONA (O.S.)\n Talk to me, bro."
],
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"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"CHEV'S moment of weakness passes. His face goes grim with\n vengeance as the mean bastard inside him kicks in. He looks\n DOC MILES in the eye.",
"CHEV (CONT'D)\n (under his breath)\n Some pills, Doc.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"The sliding doors to the ER swoosh open as a gurney is\n wheeled in by paramedics. CHEV walks quickly in behind them,",
"Fine, yes, please let the doctor know\n that Chev Chelios is a dead man if he\n can't call me back within the hour... got",
"I know. But things have changed. There's\n an antidote. I can make a deal for it,\n but I've got to go alone.",
"DOC MILES\n But you're cold.\n \n CHEV\n Check.",
"Doctor Miles' office, may I help you?\n \n CHEV\n Let me talk to him.",
"CHEV\n Yeah.\n \n DOC MILES (O.S.)",
"H\n ello?\n \n DOC MILES\n Chevy! Holy shit, man, I've been trying",
"The busy ER is buzzing with activity. CHEV looks around\n desperately. The COPS are right on his tail.\n \n Suddenly the entrance doors BURST OPEN ... a patient is",
"CHEV\n 25A 25A\n Yeah.\n \n DOC MILES (V.O.)",
"CHEV (V.O.)\n I kill people. I'm a professional hitman.\n I freelance for a major West Coast crime\n syndicate.",
"DOC MILES\n Chest is on fire.\n \n CHEV\n Check.",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"DOC MILES\n Alright, slow down. You say you've been\n poisoned. Can you describe the symptoms?",
"He rounds a corner and freezes in his tracks: three COPS are\n at the admissions counter ... a NURSE is gesturing in CHEV'S\n direction. They look up toward him.",
"The COPS continue down the hall. Behind them, from the door\n they checked, CHEV tiptoes out wearing a blue hospital\n johnnie, tied in the back with his ass hanging out, trying to",
"The HOOD drops to his knees, eyes rolling back in his head,\n blood rushing from his nose. CHEV glances quickly around for\n witnesses - then backs into the hallway, letting the door"
],
[
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"CHEV (V.O.)\n I kill people. I'm a professional hitman.\n I freelance for a major West Coast crime\n syndicate.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"CHEV\n Carlito ordered this?\n \n HOOD #1\n (ignoring it)",
"CARLITO\n C I'm sorry.\n \n UT TO CHEV and CARLITO'S legs treading water to keep their",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"CARLITO\n I'm surprised to see you.\n \n CHEV",
"friend.\n \n CHEV\n What can I say. Look, Carlito, I need",
"I\n t's CHEV, fully dressed. He meets CARLITO face to face\n underwater and points up with his index finger.",
"CHEV (CONT'D)\n What's the matter?\n \n CARLITO\n (shrugs)",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"CHEV\n Then you know what happened?\n \n CARLITO\n Word travels fast. You amaze me, my",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"CHEV climbs out of the pool. CARLITO NARROWS HIS EYES,\n watching him leave. The BODYGUARD motions to follow, CARLITO"
],
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"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"5\n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS\n \n ... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"She turns the corner and there's CHEV - he's propped up in\n the middle of an aisle in front of a bin of NAILS, HAMMER in",
"downtown, looking furtively over his shoulder as he talks.\n \n KAYLO\n Chev!",
"He pushes her head back down.\n \n CHEV'S heart is POUNDING like a jackhammer. He's got himself",
"The THUGS are into it; VERONA is rolling. One of them comes\n up beside the bed and plants a big kiss on CHEV'S unconscious\n head.",
"CHEV is waiting by the door, blocking her view of the front\n entrance, smiling somewhat crazily.\n \n CHEV",
"A LOOK OF DETERMINATION comes over her. She reaches for his\n crotch.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)",
"CHEV sits across from EVE in a tiny restaurant. An equally\n tiny VIETNAMESE WOMAN brings them menus.",
"Orlando?\n \n RLANDO\n ou a persistent motherfucker, Chev\n Chelios, I'll give you that.",
"CHEV\n (pointing at her)\n Stay.",
"didn't I, Chelios? Come on, you can admit\n it.\n \n CHEV\n We'll see.",
"CHEV meets her gaze.\n \n CHEV\n I promise.",
"CHELIOS?\n \n CHEV\n That's right, bro. You wanna guess how I",
"CHEV'S HEARTBEAT is slamming, he's really giving it to her,\n making full eye contact with the busload of tourists the\n entire time.",
"CONTINUED: CHEV(CONT'D)\n We get on a plane together and leave all\n this shit behind. Never come back.\n shrugs)",
"Whoa, Chelios. You good, man?\n \n CHEV\n his shit's not working."
],
[
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"CARLITO\n I said that's enough.\n (calmly)\n It's been a long day. But in the end, you",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"Still in the same shot, pulling back, CARLITO puts down the\n cigar, stands up and dives into the pool. The camera drops",
"As the hand holding the cigar brings it up for a drag the\n CAMERA pulls back, revealing CARLITO, an imposing 6'1\", 225",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"grandmother, blah blah blah. What do you\n think Carlito is going to think when he\n finds out what you did? Your whole crew\n is history.",
"CARLITO\n C I'm sorry.\n \n UT TO CHEV and CARLITO'S legs treading water to keep their",
"Well you don't have to be so damn cool\n about it.\n \n CARLITO\n What do you expect me to do?",
"CARLITO'S and DON KIM'S MEN have backed into opposite corners\n of the room, and are firing back and forth.",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"VERONA\n arlito? That's funny, I guess you\n didn't know... Carlito's my boy now,\n we're tight.",
"I\n t's CHEV, fully dressed. He meets CARLITO face to face\n underwater and points up with his index finger."
],
[
"downtown, looking furtively over his shoulder as he talks.\n \n KAYLO\n Chev!",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"EXT STREET, CHINATOWN, SAME TIME\n \n CHEV'S demeanor changes to an icy slow burn. He holds EVE",
"The COPS continue down the hall. Behind them, from the door\n they checked, CHEV tiptoes out wearing a blue hospital\n johnnie, tied in the back with his ass hanging out, trying to",
"CHEV\n Then you know what happened?\n \n CARLITO\n Word travels fast. You amaze me, my",
"CUT TO:\n \n EXT ALLEY, SAME TIME\n 50 50\n CHEV",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"hey pull up to the sidewalk in front of a run down, 40's era\n warehouse building at the outskirts of the LA Garment\n District. CHEV gets out.",
"stocky, is leaning over the edge of the building on the\n opposite side, looking for something - presumably CHEV -\n holding a cell phone up to his ear. His folded jacket and",
"5\n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS\n \n ... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"EXT - ALLEY, SAME TIME\n 50B 50B\n CHEV\n Out.",
"She turns the corner and there's CHEV - he's propped up in\n the middle of an aisle in front of a bin of NAILS, HAMMER in",
"CHEV\n ... right, I know, you don't know where\n he is, but you're going to tell me where",
"KAYLO\n Chev! I just saw Verona's brother going\n into Charlie O's.",
"friend.\n \n CHEV\n What can I say. Look, Carlito, I need",
"it from his coat pocket and clicks a speed dial.\n \n CUT TO:\n \n S",
"CHEV takes off, walking faster, around the corner. The COPS\n head after him.\n T"
],
[
"Ricky Verona. Anyone sees him you call\n me.\n \n KAYLO puts his hands up in the air, dumbfounded.",
"Ricky Verona ...\n \n CHEV\n (more to himself)\n Who would've thought that little bastard",
"What? What? You heard me. That son of\n a bitch Ricky Verona.\n \n AYLO",
"may actually be the last thing I do,\n understand that? Copy me on that?\n \n KAYLO\n Ricky Verona?",
"it is. So you see, I don't know where\n Ricky Verona is. Because if I knew where\n he is, I would probably be there right",
"CARLITO and RICKY VERONA sit side by side at the table. An\n iced bucket of champagne, good cigars. GOONS chill in the",
"RICKY VERONA and his CREW are in the back, watching a noisy\n satellite feed on dual plasma TV screens. A JAPANESE GIRL in",
"Anselmo job. In fact, Ricky Verona owes\n me seventy five hunna dollars.\n \n CHEV",
"CHEV\n Look, I got to find Ricky Verona ...\n \n ORLANDO\n Why would I know where ... ?",
"pretense. Ricky Verona and myself did\n not \"pull the Anselmo job together.\" In\n fact, Ricky Verona fucked me on the",
"OK. I am not affiliated with Ricky\n Verona.\n \n CHEV\n (starting to lose it again)",
"VERONA\n (sarcastic)\n Oh ... you think? Jesus ...\n \n His cell phone rings. He checks it.",
"How about the jewelry I got off your\n faggot brother, you cocksucker?\n \n This stings VERONA. He pulls the phone away from his face,",
"5A 5A\n It's RICKY VERONA on the SCREEN, a young, irritatingly slick",
"t RINGS. RICKY VERONA answers.\n \n VERONA (O.S.)\n Talk to me, bro.",
"51.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA looks up at his CREW, gathered nervously around the",
"VERONA'S eyes bulge in disbelief. CHEV continues to strangle\n him until VERONA goes limp, glassy eyed ... CHEV finally lets",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n ... I fucking poisoned you in your sleep.\n How sick is that?... for the satisfaction",
"CONTINUED: (4)\n \n \n CHEV\n Forget it. I just gotta find Ricky",
"VERONA rolls his eyes.\n \n VERONA\n Give me a fucking break..."
],
[
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"CARLITO'S and DON KIM'S MEN have backed into opposite corners\n of the room, and are firing back and forth.",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"grandmother, blah blah blah. What do you\n think Carlito is going to think when he\n finds out what you did? Your whole crew\n is history.",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"VERONA\n arlito? That's funny, I guess you\n didn't know... Carlito's my boy now,\n we're tight.",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"CARLITO and RICKY VERONA sit side by side at the table. An\n iced bucket of champagne, good cigars. GOONS chill in the",
"CARLITO\n I said that's enough.\n (calmly)\n It's been a long day. But in the end, you",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"As the hand holding the cigar brings it up for a drag the\n CAMERA pulls back, revealing CARLITO, an imposing 6'1\", 225",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"friend.\n \n CHEV\n What can I say. Look, Carlito, I need",
"CHEV\n Then you know what happened?\n \n CARLITO\n Word travels fast. You amaze me, my",
"CUT TO:\n \n EXT ROOFTOP OF CARLITO'S BUILDING, MINUTES LATER",
"I\n t's CHEV, fully dressed. He meets CARLITO face to face\n underwater and points up with his index finger."
],
[
"VERONA (CONT'D)",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n ... I fucking poisoned you in your sleep.\n How sick is that?... for the satisfaction",
"come find me after all. Fucked up that\n you killed your own brother.\n \n VERONA\n You -",
"He clicks off, then sits there, seething.\n \n VERONA (CONT'D)\n (to the BOYZ)",
"4.\n CONTINUED: (2) VERONA(CONT'D)",
"Verona, that little bitch ...\n \n ORLANDO\n I understand that. You've made that",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n (shaking his head in disbelief)\n It's him. Alright, shut up.",
"51.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA looks up at his CREW, gathered nervously around the",
"How about the jewelry I got off your\n faggot brother, you cocksucker?\n \n This stings VERONA. He pulls the phone away from his face,",
"VERONA whips the gun around as the bird rises, intending to\n .\n finish CHEV off from the air ...",
"He answers.\n \n VERONA (CONT'D)\n What's up, corpse.",
"Verona? That's just a small time punk.\n But... that's not to say there isn't an\n opportunity here.",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n VERONA\n lever. Snappy. Did you pretty good,",
"VERONA rolls his eyes.\n \n VERONA\n Give me a fucking break...",
"Look, forget about Verona. We'll take\n care of him. The best thing for you to\n do is to find a nice, dark, quiet place",
"VERONA'S eyes bulge in disbelief. CHEV continues to strangle\n him until VERONA goes limp, glassy eyed ... CHEV finally lets",
"VERONA\n WHO'S THE BITCH NOW?\n \n He blows CARLITO away with three shots.",
"VERONA\n I'm nobody's little bitch, you hear me?\n He'll pay what I tell him to pay...!",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n ... asshole.\n 5A 5A",
"VERONA (CONT'D)\n Hey, it's been real. Probably should've\n thought twice before you whacked Don Kim."
],
[
"A PILOT is standing by in CARLITO'S personal HELICOPTER,\n waiting on the roof.\n \n PILOT",
"CARLITO'S HELICOPTER drops down into view, roiling up the\n water...\n \n CARLITO makes a break for it.",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"revealing an elaborate pool area on the rooftop. CARLITO is\n sitting by the pool in a velvet robe.",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"CUT TO:\n \n EXT ROOFTOP OF CARLITO'S BUILDING, MINUTES LATER",
"CARLITO\n I said that's enough.\n (calmly)\n It's been a long day. But in the end, you",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"As the hand holding the cigar brings it up for a drag the\n CAMERA pulls back, revealing CARLITO, an imposing 6'1\", 225",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"DON KIM watches the HELICOPTER rise as his MEN finish off the\n last of CARLITO'S GOONS...",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"CHEV climbs out of the pool. CARLITO NARROWS HIS EYES,\n watching him leave. The BODYGUARD motions to follow, CARLITO",
"CARLITO'S and DON KIM'S MEN have backed into opposite corners\n of the room, and are firing back and forth.",
"gun sit on the ledge beside him.\n \n We recognize the HOOD from CARLITO'S place; he was one of the",
"CARLITO\n C I'm sorry.\n \n UT TO CHEV and CARLITO'S legs treading water to keep their"
],
[
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"5\n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS\n \n ... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a",
"CHEV (V.O.)\n I kill people. I'm a professional hitman.\n I freelance for a major West Coast crime\n syndicate.",
"Whoa, Chelios. You good, man?\n \n CHEV\n his shit's not working.",
"The COPS continue down the hall. Behind them, from the door\n they checked, CHEV tiptoes out wearing a blue hospital\n johnnie, tied in the back with his ass hanging out, trying to",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CHELIOS?\n \n CHEV\n That's right, bro. You wanna guess how I",
"didn't I, Chelios? Come on, you can admit\n it.\n \n CHEV\n We'll see.",
"Orlando?\n \n RLANDO\n ou a persistent motherfucker, Chev\n Chelios, I'll give you that.",
"in a bathrobe walks by.\n V\n ERONA\n Who is this? Chelios? IS THIS FUCKING",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"D-E-A-D. Chelios... got it?\n \n CHOCOLATE\n Yes sir...",
"downtown, looking furtively over his shoulder as he talks.\n \n KAYLO\n Chev!",
"he COP starts after it, then stops short as he sees CHEV\n dart past him and hop onto his still idling motorcycle. He\n kicks up the stand and REVS IT.",
"He rounds a corner and freezes in his tracks: three COPS are\n at the admissions counter ... a NURSE is gesturing in CHEV'S\n direction. They look up toward him.",
"I'll kill you for this, Chelios!\n \n CHEV\n Too late!",
"CHEV hangs up, turns off the phone, and pockets it.\n Immediately he's on to the next thought.",
"CHEV takes off, walking faster, around the corner. The COPS\n head after him.\n T",
"He crawls/stumbles into ...\n \n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS"
],
[
"CHEV (V.O.)\n I kill people. I'm a professional hitman.\n I freelance for a major West Coast crime\n syndicate.",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"5\n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS\n \n ... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CHEV'S moment of weakness passes. His face goes grim with\n vengeance as the mean bastard inside him kicks in. He looks\n DOC MILES in the eye.",
"CHEV gets to his feet, pulls out his gun, puts it to the back\n of ALEX'S head.\n \n CHEV pulls the trigger twice.",
"CHEV\n Your life, jackass.\n (beat)\n A hundred grand wants you dead, so sooner",
"I'll kill you for this, Chelios!\n \n CHEV\n Too late!",
"to poison you in your sleep. Yeah, you\n heard me...\n \n We stay with CHEV'S POV as he flashes a frantic glance around",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"Seems like some Chinese assholes hired\n him to kill me...\n \n ORLANDO\n Ah, so this is about the Don Kim",
"starts circling around him with the gun beaded on ORLANDO'S\n forehead.\n \n CHEV\n (out of his mind)",
"Beat. CHEV'S gun is still trained on ORLANDO'S head.\n \n ORLANDO (CONT'D)\n Now Chevy here has something he would",
"now, beating his Gucci ass down.\n S\n tandoff. CHEV holds the gun with an unsteady hand, studying",
"CHEV hangs up, turns off the phone, and pockets it.\n Immediately he's on to the next thought.",
"didn't I, Chelios? Come on, you can admit\n it.\n \n CHEV\n We'll see.",
"Chev. Maybe this can even the score for\n the Don Kim hit, which was perhaps ill-\n advised.\n \n CHEV"
],
[
"CHEV collapses to his knees, breaks it open and snorts it\n right out of the bag like a pig on his elbows and knees. The\n BROTHERS find this hilarious.",
".. and has the gun removed from his hand by CHEV, who has\n climbed onto the landing skids, hooking his dead arm inside\n the passenger space, going up with them.",
"fifth of an injection will do.\n \n CHEV tries to remember all this while zoning in and out of",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"5\n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS\n \n ... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a",
"An IV bag bubbles, a portable HEART MONITOR beeps. The\n CAMERA follows the drip down to CHEV'S arm. He's lying on",
"to poison you in your sleep. Yeah, you\n heard me...\n \n We stay with CHEV'S POV as he flashes a frantic glance around",
"CHEV gets to his feet, pulls out his gun, puts it to the back\n of ALEX'S head.\n \n CHEV pulls the trigger twice.",
"CHEV'S moment of weakness passes. His face goes grim with\n vengeance as the mean bastard inside him kicks in. He looks\n DOC MILES in the eye.",
"The COPS continue down the hall. Behind them, from the door\n they checked, CHEV tiptoes out wearing a blue hospital\n johnnie, tied in the back with his ass hanging out, trying to",
"back to normal. He hands CHEV a vial of liquid.\n \n HAITIAN CABBIE (CONT'D)",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CHEV (CONT'D)\n (under his breath)\n Some pills, Doc.",
"CHEV begins to fade again. He slumps back, looking as though\n he might pass out. One of the BROTHERS catches him, holds",
"The HOOD drops to his knees, eyes rolling back in his head,\n blood rushing from his nose. CHEV glances quickly around for\n witnesses - then backs into the hallway, letting the door",
"91.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n CHEV takes a small bottle of PILLS from his coat pocket and",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"CHEV finds himself drifting into a dream state.\n \n FLASH CUT TO:\n \n INT CAB, TIME UNKNOWN",
"the tube from CHEV's back - CHEV winces in pain. His\n HEARTRATE starts to slow almost immediately.\n \n CARLITO"
],
[
"Whoa, Chelios. You good, man?\n \n CHEV\n his shit's not working.",
"didn't I, Chelios? Come on, you can admit\n it.\n \n CHEV\n We'll see.",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CHELIOS?\n \n CHEV\n That's right, bro. You wanna guess how I",
"I'll kill you for this, Chelios!\n \n CHEV\n Too late!",
"5\n INT CHELIOS LIVING ROOM, CONTINUOUS\n \n ... the living room, toward the telephone where he spots a",
"D-E-A-D. Chelios... got it?\n \n CHOCOLATE\n Yes sir...",
"CONTINUED: CHEV(CONT'D)\n We get on a plane together and leave all\n this shit behind. Never come back.\n shrugs)",
"Orlando?\n \n RLANDO\n ou a persistent motherfucker, Chev\n Chelios, I'll give you that.",
"CHELIOS\n (barely comprehensible)\n Whathufuck?",
"CHEV hangs up, turns off the phone, and pockets it.\n Immediately he's on to the next thought.",
"CHEV loses his mind.\n \n He SLAMS THE BRAKES to put the car into a SLIDE, exposing his",
"CHEV'S moment of weakness passes. His face goes grim with\n vengeance as the mean bastard inside him kicks in. He looks\n DOC MILES in the eye.",
"CHEV\n Your life, jackass.\n (beat)\n A hundred grand wants you dead, so sooner",
"BACK TO:\n \n CHEV\n (under his breath)\n Shit!",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"in a bathrobe walks by.\n V\n ERONA\n Who is this? Chelios? IS THIS FUCKING",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?"
],
[
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"CARLITO'S and DON KIM'S MEN have backed into opposite corners\n of the room, and are firing back and forth.",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"VERONA\n arlito? That's funny, I guess you\n didn't know... Carlito's my boy now,\n we're tight.",
"grandmother, blah blah blah. What do you\n think Carlito is going to think when he\n finds out what you did? Your whole crew\n is history.",
"CARLITO\n I said that's enough.\n (calmly)\n It's been a long day. But in the end, you",
"DON KIM stands amidst the chaos, completely unperturbed.\n \n CARLITO\n (from behind the bar)",
"CUT TO:\n \n EXT ROOFTOP OF CARLITO'S BUILDING, MINUTES LATER",
"CARLITO and RICKY VERONA sit side by side at the table. An\n iced bucket of champagne, good cigars. GOONS chill in the",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"As the hand holding the cigar brings it up for a drag the\n CAMERA pulls back, revealing CARLITO, an imposing 6'1\", 225",
"CHEV\n Then you know what happened?\n \n CARLITO\n Word travels fast. You amaze me, my",
"CARLITO'S POV descends beneath the water - his breath\n releases.\n \n CUT TO:",
"A PILOT is standing by in CARLITO'S personal HELICOPTER,\n waiting on the roof.\n \n PILOT"
],
[
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"I\n t's CHEV, fully dressed. He meets CARLITO face to face\n underwater and points up with his index finger.",
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"As the hand holding the cigar brings it up for a drag the\n CAMERA pulls back, revealing CARLITO, an imposing 6'1\", 225",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"CARLITO\n I'm surprised to see you.\n \n CHEV",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"CARLITO squirts a little of the MILKY LIQUID.\n \n CHEV\n Is that what I think it is?",
"CHEV climbs out of the pool. CARLITO NARROWS HIS EYES,\n watching him leave. The BODYGUARD motions to follow, CARLITO",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"friend.\n \n CHEV\n What can I say. Look, Carlito, I need",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"CHEV nods. CARLITO places the device carefully on the table.\n \n CARLITO (CONT'D)\n (bemused)",
"We CUT TO CARLITO'S reaction. He follows CHEV up.\n \n heir heads rise just above the water, like heads on a",
"CHEV (CONT'D)\n What's the matter?\n \n CARLITO\n (shrugs)",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)"
],
[
"THE SYRINGE RIGHT TO THE HILT INTO THE BACK OF HIS NECK.\n \n CHEV drops to his knees. His HEARTBEAT is deafening,",
"CHEV gets to his feet, pulls out his gun, puts it to the back\n of ALEX'S head.\n \n CHEV pulls the trigger twice.",
".. and has the gun removed from his hand by CHEV, who has\n climbed onto the landing skids, hooking his dead arm inside\n the passenger space, going up with them.",
"to poison you in your sleep. Yeah, you\n heard me...\n \n We stay with CHEV'S POV as he flashes a frantic glance around",
"CHEV'S moment of weakness passes. His face goes grim with\n vengeance as the mean bastard inside him kicks in. He looks\n DOC MILES in the eye.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"back to normal. He hands CHEV a vial of liquid.\n \n HAITIAN CABBIE (CONT'D)",
"The COPS continue down the hall. Behind them, from the door\n they checked, CHEV tiptoes out wearing a blue hospital\n johnnie, tied in the back with his ass hanging out, trying to",
"We see him sitting on CHEV'S bed ... CHEV is visible in the\n frame, unconscious behind VERONA. Pale nicotine sunlight",
"The HOOD drops to his knees, eyes rolling back in his head,\n blood rushing from his nose. CHEV glances quickly around for\n witnesses - then backs into the hallway, letting the door",
"e kicks him in the ribs, knocking him over.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)\n You feel like talking to me? Where's",
"An IV bag bubbles, a portable HEART MONITOR beeps. The\n CAMERA follows the drip down to CHEV'S arm. He's lying on",
"Just then, behind him, CHEV emerges from the kitchen with the\n BUTCHER KNIFE.",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n He comes up behind him, transfers his gun and cell phone to",
"CHEV collapses to his knees, breaks it open and snorts it\n right out of the bag like a pig on his elbows and knees. The\n BROTHERS find this hilarious.",
"CHEV begins to fade again. He slumps back, looking as though\n he might pass out. One of the BROTHERS catches him, holds",
"uses ALEX'S finger to pull the trigger twice and blows him\n away. ALEX hits the ground with a THUD.\n \n CHEV (CONT'D)",
"91.\n CONTINUED:\n \n \n CHEV takes a small bottle of PILLS from his coat pocket and",
"starts circling around him with the gun beaded on ORLANDO'S\n forehead.\n \n CHEV\n (out of his mind)",
"slides it out and stabs at CHEV'S face ... CHEV catches his\n wrist in time to hold him off, but his grip is slipping ..."
],
[
"CUT TO:\n \n EXT ROOFTOP OF CARLITO'S BUILDING, MINUTES LATER",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"revealing an elaborate pool area on the rooftop. CARLITO is\n sitting by the pool in a velvet robe.",
"A PILOT is standing by in CARLITO'S personal HELICOPTER,\n waiting on the roof.\n \n PILOT",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"Still in the same shot, pulling back, CARLITO puts down the\n cigar, stands up and dives into the pool. The camera drops",
"escape, skips the next floor up, gets onto the roof.\n \n C",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"been holding his gun awkwardly in his armpit; now he whips it\n out. A few flights above he hears the door bang open as the\n COPS pick up the chase.",
"73.\n \n \n \n EXT ROOF, SECONDS LATER",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"HEV grabs the gun. They make for the fire escape.\n \n EXT FIRE ESCAPE, SECONDS LATER",
"As the hand holding the cigar brings it up for a drag the\n CAMERA pulls back, revealing CARLITO, an imposing 6'1\", 225",
"CARLITO'S HELICOPTER drops down into view, roiling up the\n water...\n \n CARLITO makes a break for it.",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"CHEV climbs out of the pool. CARLITO NARROWS HIS EYES,\n watching him leave. The BODYGUARD motions to follow, CARLITO",
"CARLITO'S POV descends beneath the water - his breath\n releases.\n \n CUT TO:",
"gun sit on the ledge beside him.\n \n We recognize the HOOD from CARLITO'S place; he was one of the",
"He begins to hop around maniacally, taunting the COP, as\n everyone panics and tries to reverse out of the traffic"
],
[
"CHEV\n What, so that's it?\n \n CARLITO\n Honestly, you should be dead already.",
"CARLITO nods.\n \n \n \n \n (CONTINUED)",
"97.\n CONTINUED: (3)\n \n \n CARLITO",
"CONTINUED:\n \n \n CARLITO\n (shaken for once)",
"CARLITO scrambles away from the table and grabs one of his\n GOONS, using him as a shield as he makes his way behind the",
"Still in the same shot, pulling back, CARLITO puts down the\n cigar, stands up and dives into the pool. The camera drops",
"Don Carlos wants you off the street.\n \n CHEV\n (stunned)\n Carlito?",
"CARLITO\n I said that's enough.\n (calmly)\n It's been a long day. But in the end, you",
"CARLITO is climbing in as CHEV clambers up and GRABS HIM FROM\n BEHIND. CARLITO spins; CHEV shoves the gun in his face.",
"CARLITO'S POV descends beneath the water - his breath\n releases.\n \n CUT TO:",
"CARLITO thinks quick, grabbing one of his GOONS - a 265\n pounder - from behind...\n \n CARLITO",
"CARLITO\n C I'm sorry.\n \n UT TO CHEV and CARLITO'S legs treading water to keep their",
"Well you don't have to be so damn cool\n about it.\n \n CARLITO\n What do you expect me to do?",
"CARLITO\n (chuckling despite himself)\n Chelios... what a fucking mess you are.",
"grandmother, blah blah blah. What do you\n think Carlito is going to think when he\n finds out what you did? Your whole crew\n is history.",
"Whatever, psycho...\n \n CARLITO\n I'm afraid the Houdini act is over,\n Chelios.",
"As the hand holding the cigar brings it up for a drag the\n CAMERA pulls back, revealing CARLITO, an imposing 6'1\", 225",
"CARLITO\n Chevy.\n \n CHEV\n Hey boss.",
"to know that my death can be of some use\n to you.\n \n CARLITO\n Don't be difficult.",
"CHEV\n Then you know what happened?\n \n CARLITO\n Word travels fast. You amaze me, my"
],
[
"EVE\n (coldly)\n That was just totally uncalled for.\n \n CHEV",
"EVE\n (screaming after him)\n YOU'LL BURN IN HELL FOR THIS!!!\n \n CHEV",
"CHEV is still going through the motions with EVE, but his\n attention has shifted 100% to the voice on the phone.\n \n CHEV",
"Flustered, EVE picks up the phone.\n \n EVE\n Hello?\n \n T",
"CHEV gives her a LOOK that says it all.\n \n EVE\n I had to see if you were telling the",
"INT. EVE'S CAR - DAY\n \n EVE gets herself turned upright and stares at CHEV, hair full\n of windshield glass.",
"CHEV sits across from EVE in a tiny restaurant. An equally\n tiny VIETNAMESE WOMAN brings them menus.",
"CHEV\n Yeah.\n \n EVE (O.S.)\n (sleepy)",
"CHEV turns his attention back to EVE.\n \n CHEV\n I have to go. Please understand.",
"CHEV CHELIOS, wakes up in his apartment to a RINGING CELL\n PHONE, groggy, vision doubled ...",
"CHEV shoves the HOOD'S body into a dumpster just as EVE\n turns... CHEV snatches up the first thing he sees - a grime",
"CHEV leans back in his chair and slams one of the legs down\n onto his foot. EVE flinches.\n \n CHEV",
"EVE\n No.\n \n CHEV\n Make love to me.",
"EVE\n What?\n \n CHEV\n Come on. I think it'll help.",
"EVE is rifling through her purse as they run. Naturally CHEV\n assumes she's looking for the CAR KEYS.\n \n EVE",
"He catches up to her and grabs her arm.\n \n CHEV\n Eve... baby... please!",
"ith the crowd cheering and traffic stopped, CHEV gets a shot\n of adrenaline and goes for broke. EVE shrieks like a banshee\n as he enters her.",
"CHEV grabs the back of EVE'S purse and turns it upside down,\n spilling the contents all over the concrete. She spins\n around, just missing C",
"right?\n \n EVE\n No. Why?\n \n CHEV",
"CHEV'S eyes flash to the rearview mirror and GO WIDE. He\n grabs the back of EVE'S head and PUSHES IT DOWN INTO HIS LAP -"
]
] |
[
"Who does Carlito contract Chelios to kill?",
"Where is Chelios when he is injected with a drug?",
"How does the drug Chelios is injected with eventually kill people?",
"What does Carlito say when Chelios asks him for an antidote?",
"Who is Kaylo?",
"Who is Eve?",
"Which twist is revealed right before Chelios will be injected with a second dose of the drug?",
"How does Verona try to escape from the rooftop battle?",
"How does Verona die?",
"What is Ricky Verona's brother's name?",
"Who is the mafia doctor that Chelios calls for an antidote?",
"Who does Carlito hire Chelios to kill?",
"What is the name of Chelios girlfriend?",
"Who is it that kills Carlito?",
"What was the name of Chelios' street informant?",
"How did Ricky Verona find out his brother dies?",
"What is the name of the rival group that Carlito is having problems with?",
"What did Verona do to avenge his brother's murder?",
"Who stops Carlito, on the hotel's rooftop, before he can flee aboard his helicopter?",
"What is Chelios' job?",
"Who is Chelios contracted to kill?",
"What does Chelios have to do after being injected with a drug?",
"Who was Chelios planning to retire for?",
"Who was kidnapped by Carlito's men?",
"Who appears as Carlito is about to inject Chelios with another syringe?",
"Who eventually injects Chelios with the second syringe?",
"How does Carlito try to escape the rooftop?",
"How does Carlito die?",
"Why did Chelios call Eve?"
] |
[
[
"mafia boss Don Kim",
"Don Kim"
],
[
"His apartment",
"A rooftop."
],
[
"inhibits adrenalin flow, slows heart and brings on death",
"It inhibits adrenaline and slows the heart until it stops."
],
[
"It doesn't exist.",
"He says there there is no antidote. "
],
[
"A transvestite that helps Chelios find Alex.",
"A transvestite"
],
[
"Chelios' girlfriend",
"Chelios' girlfriend"
],
[
"Having been spared by Chelios, Don Kim is alive.",
"Don Kim is alive and arrives"
],
[
"Via helicopter",
"with carlito's helicopter"
],
[
"Chelios snaps his neck.",
"Broken neck. "
],
[
"Alex",
"Alex"
],
[
"Doc Miles",
"Doc Miles"
],
[
"Don Kim",
"Don Kim"
],
[
"Eve",
"Eve."
],
[
"Ricky Venora",
"Verona"
],
[
"Kaylo",
"Kaylo"
],
[
"Chelios calls him, using Verona's brother's phone.",
"From Chelios."
],
[
"The Traids",
"Triad"
],
[
"He sends his men to get Eve.",
"He goes after Eve"
],
[
"Carlios",
"Cheelios"
],
[
"Hitman",
"Hitman."
],
[
"Don Kim",
"Don Kim. "
],
[
"Keep his adrenaline up",
"keep his adrenaline pumping"
],
[
"Eve",
"Eve. "
],
[
"Kaylo",
"Kaylo"
],
[
"Don Kim",
"Don Kim"
],
[
"Verona",
"Carlito"
],
[
"Helicopter",
"in his helicopter"
],
[
"Verona shoots him",
"Verona shoots him to death."
],
[
"To apologize for not coming back ",
"To apologize for not coming back"
]
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"happened to look round at a new house some one was putting up, and I\nsaw the whole family in the window. It appears that Mr. Lapham is\nbuilding the house.\"",
"When the spring opened Colonel Lapham showed that he had been in\nearnest about building on the New Land. His idea of a house was a",
"Then he told of his encounter with the Lapham family in their new\nhouse. At the end his mother merely said, \"It is getting very common\ndown there,\" and she did not try to oppose anything further to his\nscheme.",
"Lapham started the mare up and drove swiftly homeward. At last his\nwife stopped crying and began trying to find her pocket. \"Here, take",
"\"I suppose we might as well go on,\" said Mrs. Lapham at last, as they\nreturned to the buggy. The Colonel drove recklessly toward the",
"LAPHAM and his wife continued talking after he had quelled the\ndisturbance in his daughters' room overhead; and their talk was not\naltogether of the new house.",
"to these new acquaintances, and wrought them into the novel point of\nview which they were acquiring. When Mrs. Lapham returned home, she",
"delighted and secretly surprised to find the fellow there; and at\nsomething Seymour said the talk spread suddenly, and the pretty house\nhe was building for Colonel Lapham became the general theme. Young",
"for the family at Lapham. Penelope was always ashamed of her\nengagement there; it must seem better somewhere else and she was glad",
"Mrs. Lapham was silent a while. \"No,\" she said finally; \"we've always\ngot along well enough here, and I guess we better stay.\"",
"The foreman went about with Mrs. Lapham, showing her where the doors\nwere to be; but Lapham soon tired of this, and having found a pine",
"There was not really a great deal to look at when Lapham arrived on the\nground in his four-seated beach-wagon. But the walls were up, and the",
"Lapham which she would have found hard to bear; but now she almost\nwelcomed them. At the end of three days Lapham returned, and his wife",
"Irene bustling about in the compartment, making her mother comfortable\nfor the journey; but Mrs. Lapham did not lift her head. The train\nmoved off, and he went heavily back to his business.",
"their differences of opinion and all their disputes about the house.\nHe knew just where to insist upon his own ideas, and where to yield.\nHe was really building several other houses, but he gave the Laphams",
"AFTER a week Mrs. Lapham returned, leaving Irene alone at the old\nhomestead in Vermont. \"She's comfortable there--as comfortable as she",
"At breakfast she said casually: \"Girls, how would you like to have your\nfather build on the New Land?\"\n\nThe girls said they did not know. It was more convenient to the\nhorse-cars where they were.",
"Nothing gave Lapham so much satisfaction in the whole construction of\nhis house as the pile-driving. When this began, early in the summer, he",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"Up to a certain point in their prosperity Mrs. Lapham had kept strict\naccount of all her husband's affairs; but as they expanded, and ceased"
],
[
"\"Tom needn't earn his living,\" said Mrs. Corey, refusing her husband's\njest. \"There's still enough for all of us.\"",
"\"I'm afraid it wouldn't matter to Tom if he didn't; and I don't know\nthat I should care,\" said Corey, betraying the fact that he had perhaps",
"dependent money-wise upon Tom Corey; but the mother had come, without\nknowing it, to rely upon his sense, his advice in everything, and the",
"Bromfield Corey. If Tom Corey had ever said a witty thing, no one\ncould remember it; and yet the father had never said a witty thing to a",
"more sympathetic listener than his own son. The clear mind which\nproduced nothing but practical results reflected everything with\ncharming lucidity; and it must have been this which endeared Tom Corey",
"\"If Tom must go into such a business,\" said Mrs. Corey, \"I'm glad James\napproves of it.\"",
"in support of the life of idleness. It appears that he wishes to do\nsomething--to do something for himself. I am afraid that Tom is\nselfish.\"",
"Or, take up law or medicine. No Corey yet ever proposed to do\nnothing.\" \"Ah, then, it's quite time one of us made a beginning,\" urged",
"got young Corey into business with you, in hopes of our getting into\nsociety with his father, you better ship him at once. For I ain't\ngoing to have it on that basis.\"",
"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"Corey's face. \"But don't be annoyed by it, Tom. It isn't a family\ndinner, you know, and everything can be managed without embarrassment.",
"business. He was going to be obviously master in his own place to\nevery one; and during the hours of business he did nothing to\ndistinguish Corey from the half-dozen other clerks and book-keepers in",
"\"That is what I have sometimes urged upon Tom. I have proved to him\nthat with economy, and strict attention to business, he need do nothing",
"\"I don't wish to help it, Tom,\" said Mrs. Corey, with a cheerfullness\nwhich the thought of the Laphams had never brought her before. \"I am",
"excellences. Some of the more nervous and excitable said that Tom\nCorey was as sweet as he could live; but this perhaps meant no more\nthan the word alone. No man ever had a son less like him than",
"He started toward the door of the drawing-room to take leave of the\nladies; but Tom Corey was at his elbow, saying, \"I think Mrs. Lapham is",
"Lapham's advice, and by means of his recommendation, was perhaps the\nColonel's proudest consolation. Corey knew the business thoroughly,",
"The elder Corey knocked the ash of his cigarette into the holder at his\nelbow. \"I am more and more convinced, the longer I know you, Tom, that",
"\"No,\" said Corey, with a sick look, \"that doesn't follow. You may\ndenounce yourself, if you will; but I have my reasons for refusing to",
"that would bring up the dinner again. Corey did not recur to it, and\nLapham avoided the matter with positive fierceness. He shunned talking\nwith Corey at all, and suffered in grim silence."
],
[
"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"\"I'm afraid it wouldn't matter to Tom if he didn't; and I don't know\nthat I should care,\" said Corey, betraying the fact that he had perhaps",
"\"Why, I don't know exactly what you mean, mother. I suppose he likes\nme.\"\n\nMrs. Corey could not say just what she meant. She answered,\nineffectually enough--",
"more sympathetic listener than his own son. The clear mind which\nproduced nothing but practical results reflected everything with\ncharming lucidity; and it must have been this which endeared Tom Corey",
"\"It seems to me that the way has been found already. Tom has told his\nlove to the right one, and the wrong one knows it. Time will do the\nrest.\"",
"He started toward the door of the drawing-room to take leave of the\nladies; but Tom Corey was at his elbow, saying, \"I think Mrs. Lapham is",
"\"Yes,\" said Bromfield Corey. \"Tom has had the pleasure which I hope\nfor of seeing you all. I hope you're able to make him useful to you",
"\"You make me very happy,\" said Bromfield Corey. \"Very happy indeed.\nI've always had the idea that there was something in my son, if he",
"hands, now open and now shut, and breathing hard. He heard quiet\ntalking beyond the portiere within, and presently Tom Corey came out.",
"\"Yes,\" said Mrs. Corey.\n\n\"Well,\" demanded her husband, at their first meeting after her\ninterview with their son, \"what did you say to Tom?\"",
"\"Yes, it has; it has continued the same,\" said Mrs. Corey, again\nexpressing the fact by a contradiction in terms. \"I think I must ask\nTom outright.\"",
"\"Yes--yes, she is,\" said Mrs. Corey, at some cost.\n\n\"She's good, too,\" said Corey, \"and perfectly innocent and transparent.\nI think you will like her the better the more you know her.\"",
"conscience against it, and I rather like him for it. I married for\nlove myself,\" said Corey, looking across the table at his wife.",
"\"If Tom must go into such a business,\" said Mrs. Corey, \"I'm glad James\napproves of it.\"",
"\"Oh! I know it,\" sighed Mrs. Corey. \"I wish Tom would be a little\nopener with me.\"",
"rocks, and his heart swelled in his breast. He had always said that he\ndid not care what a man's family was, but the presence of young Corey",
"\"That is true,\" answered Corey, with meek conviction. \"I never thought\nof that.\"",
"age. He knew, of course, who Corey was, and he had waited for a man\nwho might look down on him socially to make the overtures toward",
"Corey's face. \"But don't be annoyed by it, Tom. It isn't a family\ndinner, you know, and everything can be managed without embarrassment.",
"I hope it will come out all right,\" Corey said, with a lover's vague\nsmile, and left her. When his father came down, rubbing his long hands"
],
[
"him into the business. Ten years ago he, Silas Lapham, had come to\nBoston a little worse off than nothing at all, for he was in debt for",
"WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the \"Solid Men\nof Boston\" series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after",
"\"Silas Lapham is a fine type of the successful American. He has a\nsquare, bold chin, only partially concealed by the short reddish-grey",
"\"Well, then, I'll tell you just what it is, Silas Lapham. He came\nhere\"--she looked about the room and lowered her voice--\"to see you\nabout Irene, and then he hadn't the courage.\"",
"Mrs. Lapham dropped into a chair, and watched his bulk shaken with\nsmothered laughter. \"Silas Lapham,\" she gasped, \"if you try to get off\nany more of those things on me----\"",
"\"Well, Silas Lapham,\" returned his wife, \"I do believe you've got\nmineral paint on the brain. Do you suppose a fellow like young Corey,",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"\"So you want another partner after all?\" Mrs. Lapham could not forbear\nsaying.\n\n\"Yes, if that's your idea of a partner. It isn't mine,\" returned her\nhusband dryly.",
"\"You know as well as I do, Silas,\" said Mrs. Lapham, with an inquiring\nlook at him for what lay behind his words.",
"His wife began, \"Why, it's just this, Silas Lapham!\" and then she broke\noff to say, \"Well, you may wait, now--starting me wrong, when it's hard\nenough anyway.\"",
"\"No. But it puts him where he can make the advances without demeaning\nhimself, and it puts you where you can't. Now, look here, Silas Lapham!",
"relief that was almost triumph, lapsed again into severity. \"Silas\nLapham, if you was to die the next minute, is this what you started to\ntell me?\"",
"\"Pshaw! YOU scared, Silas Lapham?\" cried his wife proudly. \"I should\nlike to see the thing that ever scared you; or the knockdown that YOU\ncouldn't pick up from!\"",
"\"Don't you suppose I can see through you I declare, Silas Lapham, if I\ndidn't know different, I should say you were about the biggest fool!",
"\"Who is that girl you've got in your office, Silas Lapham?\" she\ndemanded, when her husband entered.\n\n\"Girl in my office?\"",
"\"Spend it, then,\" said his wife; \"don't throw it away! And how came\nyou to have so much more money than you know what to do with, Silas\nLapham?\" she added.",
"\"Well, Silas Lapham, if you can't see NOW that he's after Irene, I\ndon't know what ever CAN open your eyes. That's all.\"",
"The colossal fortune of Colonel Silas Lapham lay at the bottom of a\nhole which an uprooted tree had dug for him, and which for many years",
"Mrs. Lapham had a woman's passion for fixing responsibility; she could\nnot help saying, as soon as acquitted, \"I warned you against him,\nSilas. I told you not to let him get in any deeper with you.\"",
"\"All right, Silas,\" said Mrs. Lapham; \"I suppose you know what you're\nabout. Don't build on it for me, that's all.\""
],
[
"something, when he had thought it worth nothing; and when the\ntransaction was closed, he asked the purchaser rather eagerly if he\nknew where Rogers was; it was Lapham's secret belief that Rogers had",
"said Lapham. \"All I had to do was to keep quiet about that other\ncompany. It was Rogers and his property right over again. He liked",
"Rogers, but had heard of the patent in another way; and Lapham was\nastonished in the afternoon, when his boy came to tell him that Rogers\nwas in the outer office, and wished to speak with him.",
"After a moment Mrs. Lapham asked, \"Is it--Rogers?\"\n\n\"It's Rogers.\"\n\n\"I didn't want you should get in any deeper with him.\"",
"It was true that Lapham had defied Rogers to bring on his men, and had\nimplied his willingness to negotiate with them. That was before he had",
"Rogers came promptly at the appointed time, and Lapham handed him the\nletter. He must have taken it all in at a glance, and seen the",
"Lapham laughed, but she urged so many reasons for her belief in Rogers\nthat Lapham began to rekindle his own faith a little. He ended by",
"Once more Lapham turned his back, and Rogers, after looking\nthoughtfully into his hat a moment, cleared his throat, and quietly\nwithdrew, maintaining to the last his unprejudiced demeanour.",
"should like to know.\" But as Rogers made no sign of gratifying his\ncuriosity, and treated this last remark of Lapham's as of the",
"\"I knew that Mrs. Lapham would know what was going on,\" said Rogers\nmore candidly, but not more virtuously, for that he could not, \"and I",
"Lapham faced about once more, and sat looking up into the visage of\nRogers in silence. \"I wonder what you're up to,\" he said at last; \"I",
"Lapham had expected this answer, and he had expected or intended to\nbreak out in furious denunciation of Rogers when he got it; but he only\nfound himself saying, in a sort of baffled gasp, \"I wonder what your\ngame is!\"",
"place between him and Penelope. When Rogers came in about time of\nclosing, and shut himself up with Lapham in his room, the young man\nremained till the two came out together and parted in their",
"Lapham said nothing about Rogers and the Englishmen. He believed that\nhe had acted right in that matter, and he was satisfied; but he did not\ncare to have Bellingham, or anybody, perhaps, think he had been a fool.",
"of Rogers, now familiar to Lapham's clerks, showed itself among them.\n\"Has Colonel Lapham returned yet?\" he asked, in his dry, wooden tones,\nof Lapham's boy.",
"delicate, aesthetic pleasure in the heroism with which Lapham had\nwithstood Rogers and his temptations--something finely dramatic and\nunconsciously effective,--wrote him a letter which would once have",
"had dealt fairly by his partner in money; he had let Rogers take more\nmoney out of the business than he put into it; he had, as he said,\nsimply forced out of it a timid and inefficient participant in",
"\"I guess you're lying, Rogers,\" said Lapham, without looking round.\n\n\"Well, all that I have to ask is that you will not act hastily.\"",
"\"You lie,\" said Lapham, as quietly as if correcting him in a slight\nerror; and Rogers took the word with equal sang froid. \"You knew the",
"He went out, and Lapham remained staring at the door which closed upon\nhim. This was his reward for standing firm for right and justice to\nhis own destruction: to feel like a thief and a murderer."
],
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"them. You're a thief, Milton K. Rogers, and you stole money I lent\nyou.\" Rogers sat listening, as if respectfully considering the",
"When do you want I should begin to build on Beacon Street?\" He handed\nher the new cheque, where she stood over him, and then leaned back in\nhis chair and looked up at her.",
"the day they had driven out to Brookline. \"Milton K. Rogers is a\nrascal, if you want to know; or else all the signs fail. But I guess",
"He obeyed, and they walked silently on and on. In their aimless course\nthey reached the new house on the water side of Beacon, and she made",
"himself at Nantasket with the event so perceptibly on his mind that his\nwife asked: \"Well, Silas, has Rogers been borrowing any more money of",
"After a moment Mrs. Lapham asked, \"Is it--Rogers?\"\n\n\"It's Rogers.\"\n\n\"I didn't want you should get in any deeper with him.\"",
"Once more Lapham turned his back, and Rogers, after looking\nthoughtfully into his hat a moment, cleared his throat, and quietly\nwithdrew, maintaining to the last his unprejudiced demeanour.",
"The matter dropped, and the Laphams lived on as before, with joking\nrecurrences to the house on the water side of Beacon. The Colonel",
"\"No; you're requested to ring at the rear door, all the way down Beacon\nStreet and up Commonwealth Avenue. It's rather a blank reception for\nthe returning prodigal.\"",
"\"No; we have left Chicago. Mrs. Rogers has merely remained to finish\nup a little packing.\"\n\n\"Oh, indeed! Are you coming back to Boston?\"",
"\"We are building a house,\" she said, with a meaningless laugh.\n\n\"Oh, indeed,\" said Mr. Rogers, looking up at it.\n\nThen no one spoke again, and she said helplessly--",
"the state of the business would not bear looking into. He could raise\nfifteen thousand on his Nankeen Square house, and another fifteen on\nhis Beacon Street lot, and this was all that a man who was worth a",
"out of the ruin into which he was slipping. When she remembered that\nnight when Rogers came, she hated the place. Irene accepted her\nrelease from the house eagerly, and was glad to go before and prepare",
"something, when he had thought it worth nothing; and when the\ntransaction was closed, he asked the purchaser rather eagerly if he\nknew where Rogers was; it was Lapham's secret belief that Rogers had",
"trouble. He's harassed to death, and he was awake half the night,\ntalking about it. That abominable Rogers has got a lot of money away",
"\"Well,\" said his wife; and while they were making their way across the\ncity to the Milldam she answered certain questions he asked about some\npoints in the new house.",
"Rogers, but had heard of the patent in another way; and Lapham was\nastonished in the afternoon, when his boy came to tell him that Rogers\nwas in the outer office, and wished to speak with him.",
"A WEEK after she had parted with her son at Bar Harbour, Mrs. Corey\nsuddenly walked in upon her husband in their house in Boston. He was",
"\"We must, Si,\" returned his wife, with gentle gratitude. Lapham\ngroaned. \"Where does he live?\" she asked.\n\n\"On Bolingbroke Street. He gave me his number.\"",
"edifice on the water side of Beacon Street, it was just now the latter.\nSometimes, in driving in or out, he stopped at the house, and made"
],
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"\"I suppose we might as well go on,\" said Mrs. Lapham at last, as they\nreturned to the buggy. The Colonel drove recklessly toward the",
"Lapham started the mare up and drove swiftly homeward. At last his\nwife stopped crying and began trying to find her pocket. \"Here, take",
"Irene bustling about in the compartment, making her mother comfortable\nfor the journey; but Mrs. Lapham did not lift her head. The train\nmoved off, and he went heavily back to his business.",
"Lapham had no need to walk down through the crowd, gazing and\ngossiping, with shouts and cries and hysterical laughter, before the\nburning house, to make sure that it was his.",
"Mrs. Lapham was silent a while. \"No,\" she said finally; \"we've always\ngot along well enough here, and I guess we better stay.\"",
"went and dropped them into the fire. When Mrs. Lapham came into the\nroom in the morning, before he was down, she found a scrap of the",
"Lapham which she would have found hard to bear; but now she almost\nwelcomed them. At the end of three days Lapham returned, and his wife",
"AFTER a week Mrs. Lapham returned, leaving Irene alone at the old\nhomestead in Vermont. \"She's comfortable there--as comfortable as she",
"He went out, and Lapham remained staring at the door which closed upon\nhim. This was his reward for standing firm for right and justice to\nhis own destruction: to feel like a thief and a murderer.",
"They said that nothing remained of the building but the walls; and\nLapham, on his way to business, walked up past the smoke-stained shell.\nThe windows looked like the eye-sockets of a skull down upon the",
"By the time this letter came, Lapham had gone to his business, and the\nmother carried it to Penelope to talk over. \"What do you make out of",
"\"Never mind that now. What about Irene?\"\n\n\"She says she's going to Lapham to-morrow. She feels that she's got to\nget away somewhere. It's natural she should.\"",
"happened to look round at a new house some one was putting up, and I\nsaw the whole family in the window. It appears that Mr. Lapham is\nbuilding the house.\"",
"the house at Nankeen Square, with everything else he had, into the\npayment of his debts, and Mrs. Lapham found it easier to leave it for",
"Then he told of his encounter with the Lapham family in their new\nhouse. At the end his mother merely said, \"It is getting very common\ndown there,\" and she did not try to oppose anything further to his\nscheme.",
"the Laphams when they entered. The Coreys had once kept a man, but\nwhen young Corey began his retrenchments the man had yielded to the",
"Mrs. Lapham reported to her husband when he came home at night--he had\nleft his business to go and meet her, and then, after a desolate dinner",
"for the family at Lapham. Penelope was always ashamed of her\nengagement there; it must seem better somewhere else and she was glad",
"The foreman went about with Mrs. Lapham, showing her where the doors\nwere to be; but Lapham soon tired of this, and having found a pine",
"to think what would happen to him if he lost it. I know one thing,\"\nconcluded Mrs. Lapham. \"He shall not go back to the office to-day.\""
],
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"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"more sympathetic listener than his own son. The clear mind which\nproduced nothing but practical results reflected everything with\ncharming lucidity; and it must have been this which endeared Tom Corey",
"\"Why, I don't know exactly what you mean, mother. I suppose he likes\nme.\"\n\nMrs. Corey could not say just what she meant. She answered,\nineffectually enough--",
"\"Yes--yes, she is,\" said Mrs. Corey, at some cost.\n\n\"She's good, too,\" said Corey, \"and perfectly innocent and transparent.\nI think you will like her the better the more you know her.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said Bromfield Corey. \"Tom has had the pleasure which I hope\nfor of seeing you all. I hope you're able to make him useful to you",
"and he waited in jealous impatience to see if Tom Corey would offer his\narm to Irene. He gave it to that big girl they called Miss Kingsbury,",
"He started toward the door of the drawing-room to take leave of the\nladies; but Tom Corey was at his elbow, saying, \"I think Mrs. Lapham is",
"\"Yes,\" she said.\n\n\"They're very simple, nice girls,\" pursued Corey. \"I think you'll like\nthe elder, when you come to know her.\"",
"\"I'm afraid it wouldn't matter to Tom if he didn't; and I don't know\nthat I should care,\" said Corey, betraying the fact that he had perhaps",
"and Tom had both begged that there might be nothing of that kind; and\nthough none of the Coreys learned to know her very well in the week she",
"Corey's face. \"But don't be annoyed by it, Tom. It isn't a family\ndinner, you know, and everything can be managed without embarrassment.",
"\"Oh! I know it,\" sighed Mrs. Corey. \"I wish Tom would be a little\nopener with me.\"",
"\"But that drawing-room,\" pursued Corey; \"really, I don't see how Tom\nstands that. Anna, a terrible thought occurs to me! Fancy Tom being",
"These things continually happen in novels; and the Coreys, as they had\nalways promised themselves to do, made the best, and not the worst of\nTom's marriage.",
"\"Oh yes,\" sighed Mrs. Corey. \"It's natural, and it's right.\" But she\nadded, \"I suppose they're glad of him on any terms.\"",
"Bromfield Corey. If Tom Corey had ever said a witty thing, no one\ncould remember it; and yet the father had never said a witty thing to a",
"When you come to know her. The words implied an expectation that the\ntwo families were to be better acquainted.\n\n\"Then she is more intellectual than her sister?\" Mrs. Corey ventured.",
"\"Corey? Oh!\" said Lapham, affecting not to have thought she could mean\nCorey. \"He proposed it.\"\n\n\"Likely!\" jeered his wife, but with perfect amiability.",
"\"All boys of that tender age are noble,\" said Corey, \"and look like\nanybody you wish them to resemble. Is Leslie still home-sick for the\nbean-pots of her native Boston?\"",
"\"I've been reading that book since you were down at Nantasket.\"\n\n\"Book?\" repeated Corey, while she reddened with disappointment. \"Oh\nyes. Middlemarch. Did you like it?\""
],
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"that there had been no engagement between Corey and Penelope, and that\nit was she who had forbidden it. In the closeness of interest and\nsympathy in which their troubles had reunited them, they confessed to",
"from the misery to come--the misery which had come already to Penelope\nand herself, and that must come to Irene and her father. She started\nwhen she definitely thought of her husband, and thought with what",
"\"Well,\" said Penelope, \"his friend couldn't call often from Texas. You\nneedn't ask Mr. Corey to trouble about me, 'Rene. I think I can manage\nto worry along, if you're satisfied.\"",
"\"Oh, just some nonsense of hers with Mr. Corey. He gave it to her at\nthe new house.\" Penelope did not choose to look up and meet her\nmother's grave glance.",
"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"facts as she could from Penelope. She did not reproach him. Here was\na case in which his self-reproach must be sufficiently sharp without",
"\"Yes, that's true,\" she admitted, with a conscious flush. \"I hope he\nwon't think Pen's known about it all this while.\"\n\n\n\nXXIV.",
"In this view it did seem improbable, and Mrs. Lapham was shaken. She\ncould only say, \"Penelope felt just the way I did about it.\"",
"and questioning his face with a bewildered gaze. \"You MUST know--she\nmust have told you--she must have guessed----\" Penelope turned white,",
"Penelope were engaged to Corey that very minute, he would make her\nbreak with him.",
"dinner engagement. If she believed that Penelope would not finally\nchange her mind and go, no doubt Mrs. Lapham thought that Mrs. Corey",
"When they were alone again, Irene made a feint of scolding her for\nleaving her to entertain Mr. Corey.\n\n\"Why! didn't you have a pleasant call?\" asked Penelope.",
"\"Oh, I AM, Pen. When do you suppose he'll come again?\" Irene pushed\nsome of Penelope's things aside on the dressing-case, to rest her elbow",
"to supper. His wife could not help condoning the sin of disobedience\nin him at such a time. Penelope said that between the admiration she",
"Penelope recoiled from this terrible courage; she did not answer\ndirectly, and Irene went on, \"Because if you did, I'll thank you to",
"\"O Pen!\" she whispered, with her heart in her face; and Penelope had no\ntime for mockery before he was at the steps.",
"\"I will obey you, Penelope.\"\n\n\"As if you were never to see me again? As if I were dying?\"",
"\"I've wished a hundred times they hadn't asked us; but it's too late to\nthink about that now. The question is, what are we going to do about\nPenelope?\"",
"\"He is a great admirer of your house,\" said Mrs. Corey, keeping her\neyes very sharply, however politely, on Penelope's face, as if to",
"to them, she was sure. She glanced at her daughter for support, but\nPenelope was looking at Mrs. Corey, who doubtless saw her from the"
],
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"\"Oh, it was nothing. They sent a fellow down here to interview me, and\nhe got everything about as twisted as he could.\"",
"at the beginning of the interview. \"Oh! All right!\" he added, in\nresponse to something the young man said.",
"\"Oh yes, it will,\" returned Bartley, unabashed. \"You'll see; it'll\ncome out all right.\" And in fact it did so, in the interview which\nBartley printed.",
"\"That's going into the interview, Mr. Lapham, if nothing else does.\nGot a wife myself, and I know just how you feel.\" It was in the dawn of",
"\"Tell me about it, mamma,\" said Irene, dropping into a chair.\n\n\nMrs. Corey described the interview to her husband on her return home.\n\"Well, and what are your inferences?\" he asked.",
"\"They seem to be having rather a long interview with the carpenter\nto-day,\" said Irene, looking vaguely toward the ceiling. She turned",
"with a solid bulk, which on the day of our interview was\nunpretentiously clad in a business suit of blue serge. His head droops\nsomewhat from a short neck, which does not trouble itself to rise far",
"\"I don't know as I know just where you want me to begin,\" said Lapham.\n\n\"Might begin with your birth; that's where most of us begin,\" replied\nBartley.",
"a leading question will draw out a whole line of facts that a man\nhimself would never think of.\" He went on to put several queries, and\nit was from Lapham's answers that he generalised the history of his",
"\"Oh yes, I did,\" said Bartley. \"That's what I want. Tell all there is\nto tell, and I can boil it down afterward. A man can't make a greater",
"there for the purpose of interviewing his ancestry. But Bartley had\nlearned to practise a patience with his victims which he did not always",
"with her mother alone, and they were in the house, interviewing the\ncarpenter as before, when the Colonel jumped out of his buggy and cast",
"\"I guess you may put me down at the Events Office, just round the\ncorner here. I've got to write up this interview while it's fresh.\"",
"\"Oh, well, if you say he hasn't, what's the use of my telling you who?\"\n\n\"Oh, how can you treat me so!\" moaned the sufferer. \"What do you mean,\nPen?\"",
"\"Well, Persis is. I don't know as you saw an interview that fellow\npublished in the Events a while back?\"\n\n\"What is the Events?\"",
"The story made its impression, and Lapham saw it. \"Now I say,\" he\nresumed, as if he felt that he was going to do himself justice, and say",
"\"I should think she might have been,\" said Bartley, while he made a\nnote of the appearance of the jars.\n\n\"I don't know about your mentioning it in your interview,\" said Lapham\ndubiously.",
"\"It seems very delightful,\" said Corey, \"and very original.\"\n\n\"Yes, sir. That fellow hadn't talked five minutes before I saw that he\nknew what he was about every time.\"",
"\"I thought they were on fire. Well, I'll tell you what's happened.\"\nShe rose, and then fell back in her chair. \"Lock the door!\" she",
"The girl lifted herself on her elbow. \"What's that you say about\nfather?\" she demanded eagerly. \"Is he in trouble? Is he going to lose\nhis money? Shall we have to stay in this house?\""
],
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"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"\"Mr. Lapham,\" he wrote, \"passed rapidly over the story of his early\nlife, its poverty and its hardships, sweetened, however, by the",
"Up to a certain point in their prosperity Mrs. Lapham had kept strict\naccount of all her husband's affairs; but as they expanded, and ceased",
"out. Then, besides, Lapham has been into several things outside of his\nown business, and, like a good many other men who try outside things,",
"prosperity had been so gross and palpable; and he had now a burning\ndesire to know exactly how, at the bottom of his heart, Lapham still",
"appeared, Lapham had regarded it with very mixed feelings. At first it\ngave him a glow of secret pleasure, blended with doubt as to how his",
"and works at Lapham. The transfer relieved Lapham of the load of debt\nwhich he was still labouring under, and gave him an interest in the",
"\"Silas Lapham is a fine type of the successful American. He has a\nsquare, bold chin, only partially concealed by the short reddish-grey",
"a leading question will draw out a whole line of facts that a man\nhimself would never think of.\" He went on to put several queries, and\nit was from Lapham's answers that he generalised the history of his",
"\"I should think I had,\" said Lapham. \"I've used up about a hundred and\nfifty thousand dollars trying.\"",
"Lapham was proud of his wife, and when he married her it had been a\nrise in life for him. For a while he stood in awe of his good fortune,",
"horses, and Lapham spent it; his wife spent on rich and rather ugly\nclothes and a luxury of household appointments. Lapham had not yet",
"interesting to the public than if you hadn't a dollar; and you know\nthat as well as I do, Mr. Lapham. There's no use beating about the\nbush.\"",
"Mrs. Lapham told her husband of the arrival of the paper, treating the\nfact with an importance that he refused to see in it.\n\n\"How do you know the fellow sent it, anyway?\" he demanded.",
"himself, but out of the dust, alone knows when that struggle will end.\nThe time had been when Lapham could not have imagined any worldly\nsplendour which his dollars could not buy if he chose to spend them for",
"him into the business. Ten years ago he, Silas Lapham, had come to\nBoston a little worse off than nothing at all, for he was in debt for",
"As Sewell afterwards told his wife, he could see that the loss of his\nfortune had been a terrible trial to Lapham, just because his",
"\"Tom,\" cried his mother, \"why do you think Mr. Lapham has taken you\ninto business so readily? I've always heard that it was so hard for\nyoung men to get in.\"",
"He said all this, and much more, to Mr. Sewell the summer after he sold\nout, when the minister and his wife stopped at Lapham on their way",
"WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the \"Solid Men\nof Boston\" series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after"
],
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"happened to look round at a new house some one was putting up, and I\nsaw the whole family in the window. It appears that Mr. Lapham is\nbuilding the house.\"",
"When the spring opened Colonel Lapham showed that he had been in\nearnest about building on the New Land. His idea of a house was a",
"to these new acquaintances, and wrought them into the novel point of\nview which they were acquiring. When Mrs. Lapham returned home, she",
"their differences of opinion and all their disputes about the house.\nHe knew just where to insist upon his own ideas, and where to yield.\nHe was really building several other houses, but he gave the Laphams",
"delighted and secretly surprised to find the fellow there; and at\nsomething Seymour said the talk spread suddenly, and the pretty house\nhe was building for Colonel Lapham became the general theme. Young",
"\"I suppose we might as well go on,\" said Mrs. Lapham at last, as they\nreturned to the buggy. The Colonel drove recklessly toward the",
"Lapham started the mare up and drove swiftly homeward. At last his\nwife stopped crying and began trying to find her pocket. \"Here, take",
"Irene bustling about in the compartment, making her mother comfortable\nfor the journey; but Mrs. Lapham did not lift her head. The train\nmoved off, and he went heavily back to his business.",
"Then he told of his encounter with the Lapham family in their new\nhouse. At the end his mother merely said, \"It is getting very common\ndown there,\" and she did not try to oppose anything further to his\nscheme.",
"The foreman went about with Mrs. Lapham, showing her where the doors\nwere to be; but Lapham soon tired of this, and having found a pine",
"Nothing gave Lapham so much satisfaction in the whole construction of\nhis house as the pile-driving. When this began, early in the summer, he",
"Up to a certain point in their prosperity Mrs. Lapham had kept strict\naccount of all her husband's affairs; but as they expanded, and ceased",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"from the cottage. A hospitable smell of supper filled the air, and\nMrs. Lapham was on the veranda, with that demand in her eyes for her",
"Mrs. Lapham was silent a while. \"No,\" she said finally; \"we've always\ngot along well enough here, and I guess we better stay.\"",
"horses, and Lapham spent it; his wife spent on rich and rather ugly\nclothes and a luxury of household appointments. Lapham had not yet",
"There was not really a great deal to look at when Lapham arrived on the\nground in his four-seated beach-wagon. But the walls were up, and the",
"LAPHAM and his wife continued talking after he had quelled the\ndisturbance in his daughters' room overhead; and their talk was not\naltogether of the new house.",
"Lapham which she would have found hard to bear; but now she almost\nwelcomed them. At the end of three days Lapham returned, and his wife",
"hardly known it till the summer before this story opens, when Mrs.\nLapham and her daughter Irene had met some other Bostonians far from\nBoston, who made it memorable. They were people whom chance had"
],
[
"Bartley saw his opportunity at the word paint, and cut in. \"And you\nsay, Mr. Lapham, that you discovered this mineral paint on the old farm\nyourself?\"",
"\"Well, Silas Lapham,\" returned his wife, \"I do believe you've got\nmineral paint on the brain. Do you suppose a fellow like young Corey,",
"\"Probably carousing with the boon Lapham somewhere. He left me\nyesterday afternoon to go and offer his allegiance to the Mineral Paint\nKing, and I haven't seen him since.\"",
"him into the business. Ten years ago he, Silas Lapham, had come to\nBoston a little worse off than nothing at all, for he was in debt for",
"\"Well, what is it, Silas?\" asked his wife when the time came. \"Any\nmore big-bugs wanting to go into the mineral paint business with you?\"\n\n\"Something better than that.\"",
"paint. And Mis' Lapham was with me every time. No hang back about\nHER. I tell you she was a WOMAN!\"",
"but this scheme of going into the mineral-paint business shows that you\nhave inherited something of my feeling for colour.\"",
"he could put in a certain sum for this purpose, they would go in with\nhim. He should run the works at Lapham and manage the business in",
"\"I shouldn't at all mind its having a little mineral paint on it. I'll\nuse my influence with Colonel Lapham--if I ever have any--to have his\npaint scraped off the landscape.\"",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"instinctively kept out of everything of the kind. But he has got to do\nsomething. What shall he do? He says mineral paint, and really I don't",
"what I think it is, I'm going to work it. And if father hadn't had\nsuch a long name, I should call it the Nehemiah Lapham Mineral Paint.",
"roared Bartley. \"It's PAINT! It's mineral paint--Lapham's paint!\"",
"that didn't have 'Lapham's Mineral Paint--Specimen' on it in the three\ncolours we begun by making.\" Bartley had taken his seat on the",
"other mineral paint out of the market. Why' says he, 'it'll drive 'em\nright into the Back Bay!' Of course, I didn't know what the Back Bay",
"By the time this letter came, Lapham had gone to his business, and the\nmother carried it to Penelope to talk over. \"What do you make out of",
"Lapham lifted his head and looked at the young man, deeply moved.\n\n\"It's the best paint in God's universe,\" he said with the solemnity of\nprayer.",
"paint, might recover and he could start again. Lapham had not agreed\nwith him. When his reverses first began it had seemed easy for him to",
"With that competition, you know what your plant at Lapham would be\nworth, and what the shrinkage on your manufactured stock would be.\nBetter sell out to them,\" he concluded, \"if they will buy.\"",
"and talked paint with Mr. Lapham till midnight. We didn't settle\nanything till this morning coming up on the boat.\""
],
[
"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"\"No, no, my dear,\" he argued; \"merely imaginative. And I can even\nimagine that little thing finding Tom just the least bit slow, at",
"\"She is very pretty, and she is well-behaved; but there is nothing of\nher. She is insipid; she is very insipid.\"\n\n\"But Tom seemed to like her flavour, such as it was?\"",
"praises one woman, you still think he's in love with another. Do you\nmean that because Tom didn't praise the elder sister so much, he HAS\nspoken to HER?\"",
"\"It seems to me that the way has been found already. Tom has told his\nlove to the right one, and the wrong one knows it. Time will do the\nrest.\"",
"\"We can't ignore Tom's intimacy with them--it amounts to that; it will\nprobably continue even if it's merely a fancy, and we must seem to know",
"\"I wish you were. And yet I can't say that I do. Those things are\nvery serious with girls. I shouldn't like Tom to have been going to\nsee those people if he meant nothing by it.\"",
"\"Oh, she'll be an affectionate little thing with Tom too, you may be\nsure,\" said Nanny. \"And that characterless capability becomes the most",
"certain sort of bringing up. I should prefer Tom to marry a girl with\nanother sort, and this business venture of his increases the chances\nthat he won't. That's all.\"",
"\"Oh, I'm sure of that, Tom. I'm sure that we shall all be fond of\nher,--for your sake at first, even--and I hope she'll like us.\"",
"\"Tom doesn't get on with such people.\"\n\n\"Oh, you wish him to marry her, I see.\"\n\n\"No, no.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said Bromfield Corey. \"Tom has had the pleasure which I hope\nfor of seeing you all. I hope you're able to make him useful to you",
"\"I don't see how. I dare say Mamma Lapham knows whether Tom is in love\nwith her daughter or not; and no doubt Papa Lapham knows it at second",
"in support of the life of idleness. It appears that he wishes to do\nsomething--to do something for himself. I am afraid that Tom is\nselfish.\"",
"\"Oh, she's a merry little grig, you can see that, and there's no harm\nin her. I can understand a little why a formal fellow like Tom should",
"all follow. He dangles because he must, and doesn't know what to do\nwith his time, and because they seem to like it. I dare say that Tom",
"These things continually happen in novels; and the Coreys, as they had\nalways promised themselves to do, made the best, and not the worst of\nTom's marriage.",
"money for her charity, and then seeming to drop it. Besides, it seemed\nto her that she ought somehow to recognise the business relation that\nTom had formed with the father; they must not think that his family",
"and he waited in jealous impatience to see if Tom Corey would offer his\narm to Irene. He gave it to that big girl they called Miss Kingsbury,",
"more sympathetic listener than his own son. The clear mind which\nproduced nothing but practical results reflected everything with\ncharming lucidity; and it must have been this which endeared Tom Corey"
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"himself. He perceived how far apart in all their experiences and\nideals the Lapham girls and his sisters were; how different Mrs. Lapham",
"\"Perhaps he has, after all.\"\n\n\"No,\" said Mrs. Lapham. \"She pleases him when he sees her. But he\ndoesn't try to see her.\"",
"\"I don't see how. I dare say Mamma Lapham knows whether Tom is in love\nwith her daughter or not; and no doubt Papa Lapham knows it at second",
"\"I fancy that's the way with the Lapham family,\" said the young man,\nsmilingly. \"But they are very good people. The other daughter is\nhumorous.\"",
"both have preferred to have Tom marry in his own set; the Laphams are\nabout the last set we could have wished him to marry into. They ARE",
"\"Well,\" said Lapham, tacitly granting this point, and leaning back in\nhis chair in supreme content. \"Did you ever see much nicer girls\nanywhere?\"",
"\"She is very pretty, and she is well-behaved; but there is nothing of\nher. She is insipid; she is very insipid.\"\n\n\"But Tom seemed to like her flavour, such as it was?\"",
"talk like her.\" She gave the shaving a little toss from her, and took\nthe parasol up across her lap. The unworldliness of the Lapham girls",
"straight, I don't know what would become of me.\" \"My other daughter,\"\nsaid Lapham, indicating a girl with eyes that showed large, and a face",
"\"Tom,\" cried his mother, \"why do you think Mr. Lapham has taken you\ninto business so readily? I've always heard that it was so hard for\nyoung men to get in.\"",
"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"\"Well, then, I'll tell you just what it is, Silas Lapham. He came\nhere\"--she looked about the room and lowered her voice--\"to see you\nabout Irene, and then he hadn't the courage.\"",
"\"Well, mother,\" he said promptly, \"I have made an engagement with Mr.\nLapham.\"\n\n\"Have you, Tom?\" she asked faintly.",
"\"Tchk!\" Mrs. Lapham fell back against the carriage cushions. \"I\ndeclare, to see her willing to take the man that we all thought wanted\nher sister! I can't make it seem right.\"",
"\"I do,\" said Mrs. Lapham. \"And I want him to see her without any of\nyour connivance, Silas. I'm not going to have it said that I put my",
"\"Then, of course, it will be very handsome. I suppose the young ladies\nare very much taken up with it; and Mrs. Lapham.\"",
"Mrs. Lapham did not hasten to return to her guest. In her own girlhood\nit was supposed that if a young man seemed to be coming to see a girl,",
"Lapham glanced at the bay-window in the reception-room, where he sat\nwith his girls on the trestles when Corey first came by; and then he",
"\"Yes, it's about Miss Lapham. I am greatly attached to her--you'll\nexcuse my saying it; I couldn't excuse myself if I were not.\"",
"They were people who could value Lapham's behaviour as Tom reported it\nto them. They were proud of him, and Bromfield Corey, who found a"
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"that there had been no engagement between Corey and Penelope, and that\nit was she who had forbidden it. In the closeness of interest and\nsympathy in which their troubles had reunited them, they confessed to",
"\"Yes, that's true,\" she admitted, with a conscious flush. \"I hope he\nwon't think Pen's known about it all this while.\"\n\n\n\nXXIV.",
"from the misery to come--the misery which had come already to Penelope\nand herself, and that must come to Irene and her father. She started\nwhen she definitely thought of her husband, and thought with what",
"\"Oh no. He hasn't fallen in love with Irene at all. If he had, it\nwouldn't matter about the intellect.\"\n\nPenelope let the self-contradiction pass.",
"facts as she could from Penelope. She did not reproach him. Here was\na case in which his self-reproach must be sufficiently sharp without",
"\"I haven't seen Pen so much like herself since it happened. I declare,\nwhen I see the way she came out to-night, just to please you, I don't\nknow as I want you should get over all your troubles right away.\"",
"\"It has indeed! But there's no mistake about my loving you, Penelope,\"\nhe said; and the old-fashioned name, at which she had often mocked, was\nsweet to her from his lips.",
"In this view it did seem improbable, and Mrs. Lapham was shaken. She\ncould only say, \"Penelope felt just the way I did about it.\"",
"He was silent; then he said desperately--\n\n\"Penelope, she is very young; and perhaps--perhaps she might meet----\"",
"more ever since. She hasn't mind enough.\" \"I didn't know that a man\nfell in love with a girl's intellect,\" said Penelope quietly.",
"and questioning his face with a bewildered gaze. \"You MUST know--she\nmust have told you--she must have guessed----\" Penelope turned white,",
"\"Wait. We must understand each other,\" said Penelope, rising from her\nseat to prevent an advance he was making from his; \"I want you to",
"\"No, no, my dear,\" he argued; \"merely imaginative. And I can even\nimagine that little thing finding Tom just the least bit slow, at",
"the car; and whenever he was going to say yes, he could not open his\nlips. At the same time he could not help feeling that Penelope had a",
"\"O Pen!\" she whispered, with her heart in her face; and Penelope had no\ntime for mockery before he was at the steps.",
"\"He hasn't kept coming a great deal, yet,\" suggested Penelope.\n\n\"No; I know he hasn't. But if he--if he should?\"\n\n\"Then I should think he wanted to.\"",
"\"I've wished a hundred times they hadn't asked us; but it's too late to\nthink about that now. The question is, what are we going to do about\nPenelope?\"",
"\"Well, Pen, I wouldn't use you so,\" she whimpered.\n\nPenelope threw herself on the bed beside her.",
"the comfort we had in the beginning; we can't help ourselves; and we\nshould only make bad worse by trying. Unless we can look to Tom's\ninamorata herself for help.\"",
"myself the other night that they were not to be dreaded.\" She rose, and\nput her arm round his neck. \"And I wish you joy, Tom! If she's half as"
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"them. You're a thief, Milton K. Rogers, and you stole money I lent\nyou.\" Rogers sat listening, as if respectfully considering the",
"the day they had driven out to Brookline. \"Milton K. Rogers is a\nrascal, if you want to know; or else all the signs fail. But I guess",
"Rogers. And I told him so last night.\"",
"Rogers, but had heard of the patent in another way; and Lapham was\nastonished in the afternoon, when his boy came to tell him that Rogers\nwas in the outer office, and wished to speak with him.",
"The Colonel laughed scoffingly. \"Well, when Milton K. Rogers don't\nknow which side his bread's buttered on! I don't understand,\" he added",
"After a moment Mrs. Lapham asked, \"Is it--Rogers?\"\n\n\"It's Rogers.\"\n\n\"I didn't want you should get in any deeper with him.\"",
"\"If you think I'm going to help you whip the devil round the stump,\nyou're mistaken in your man, Milton Rogers,\" said Lapham, lighting a",
"have made anybody else rich. But you can't make Milton K. Rogers rich,\nany more than you can fat a hide-bound colt. It ain't in him. He'd",
"it's going to build car-works right by those mills, and it may want\nthem. And Milton K. Rogers knew it when he turned 'em in on me.\"",
"meetings. He went back to his first connection with Rogers, and he put\nbefore Sewell hypothetically his own conclusions in regard to the\nmatter.",
"arranged the whole thing with Rogers, and I hope you'll be satisfied to\nknow that he owes me twenty thousand dollars, and that I've got",
"Rogers looked compassionately at him, but he answered, with unvaried\ndryness, \"I did not think that necessary.\"",
"\"Oh, indeed!\" said Rogers; \"I think he will see ME!\" and he pressed\nforward.",
"something, when he had thought it worth nothing; and when the\ntransaction was closed, he asked the purchaser rather eagerly if he\nknew where Rogers was; it was Lapham's secret belief that Rogers had",
"about Rogers, I might trust you a little. But I see I can't. I presume\nas long as you live you'll have to be nosed about like a perfect--I\ndon't know what!\"",
"trouble. He's harassed to death, and he was awake half the night,\ntalking about it. That abominable Rogers has got a lot of money away",
"Rogers came promptly at the appointed time, and Lapham handed him the\nletter. He must have taken it all in at a glance, and seen the",
"desperate pretext to see Penelope; but when he opened the door he saw,\nwith a certain absence of surprise, that it was Rogers. He was",
"\"I'm glad to be let live,\" said Lapham stubbornly, \"but I hadn't\nanything to make up to Milton K. Rogers. And if God has let me live\nfor that----\"",
"It was perfectly true. Any lawyer would have told him the same. He\ncould not help admiring Rogers for his ingenuity, and every selfish"
],
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"\"I do,\" said Mrs. Lapham. \"And I want him to see her without any of\nyour connivance, Silas. I'm not going to have it said that I put my",
"After a moment Mrs. Lapham asked, \"Is it--Rogers?\"\n\n\"It's Rogers.\"\n\n\"I didn't want you should get in any deeper with him.\"",
"Lapham laughed, but she urged so many reasons for her belief in Rogers\nthat Lapham began to rekindle his own faith a little. He ended by",
"\"You know as well as I do, Silas,\" said Mrs. Lapham, with an inquiring\nlook at him for what lay behind his words.",
"\"I knew that Mrs. Lapham would know what was going on,\" said Rogers\nmore candidly, but not more virtuously, for that he could not, \"and I",
"Mrs. Lapham had a woman's passion for fixing responsibility; she could\nnot help saying, as soon as acquitted, \"I warned you against him,\nSilas. I told you not to let him get in any deeper with you.\"",
"This answer satisfied Mrs. Lapham rather with the fact than with her\nhusband. \"Well, I guess I wouldn't brag, Silas,\" she said.",
"\"Perhaps he has, after all.\"\n\n\"No,\" said Mrs. Lapham. \"She pleases him when he sees her. But he\ndoesn't try to see her.\"",
"Mrs. Lapham was silent a while. Then she said: \"Well, I hope you're\nsatisfied now.\"",
"\"Truly, Si? Well, I'm satisfied,\" said Mrs. Lapham, with a deep\ntremulous breath. \"The Lord has been good to you, Silas,\" she",
"Mrs. Lapham rose and said, with her face from him, as she turned\ntowards the door, \"It's all right, Silas. I shan't ever bring it up\nagainst you.\"",
"\"Well, I should think it would be a pleasure to him,\" said Mrs. Lapham\njudicially.",
"\"Well, then, I'll tell you just what it is, Silas Lapham. He came\nhere\"--she looked about the room and lowered her voice--\"to see you\nabout Irene, and then he hadn't the courage.\"",
"\"All right, Silas,\" said Mrs. Lapham; \"I suppose you know what you're\nabout. Don't build on it for me, that's all.\"",
"Si,\" said Mrs. Lapham, recurring to the parlance of her youth in her\npathos at her husband's kindness. She sighed anxiously, for she felt",
"\"And I'm set she shall,\" said Lapham with the loud obstinacy of a man\nwhose women always have their way.\n\nMrs. Lapham was not supported by the sturdiness of his proclamation.",
"This seemed to satisfy Mrs. Lapham as to her husband, and she said in\ndefence of Corey, \"Why, I don't see what HE'S done. It's all been our\ndoing.\"",
"Mrs. Lapham sat discomfited. All that she could say was, \"Well, I want\nyou should ask yourself whether Rogers would ever have gone wrong, or",
"said Lapham. \"All I had to do was to keep quiet about that other\ncompany. It was Rogers and his property right over again. He liked",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham."
],
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"\"No; you had better face the truth, Silas. It was no chance at all.\nYou crowded him out. A man that had saved you! No, you had got greedy,",
"Silas. You had made your paint your god, and you couldn't bear to let\nanybody else share in its blessings.\"",
"As Sewell afterwards told his wife, he could see that the loss of his\nfortune had been a terrible trial to Lapham, just because his",
"as the last expression of his sense of success. \"O Silas!\"",
"After a silence which he did not seem inclined to break, \"Silas,\" she\nasked, \"who is 'Mrs. M.'?\"\n\nHe stared at her. \"I don't know what you're talking about.\"",
"\"No. You didn't want I should press him either; and I had to do one or\nthe other. And so I got in deeper.\"\n\n\"Silas,\" said his wife, \"I'm afraid I made you!\"",
"In the middle of the night she called to him, in a voice which the\ndarkness rendered still more deeply troubled: \"Are you awake, Silas?\"\n\n\"Yes; I'm awake.\"",
"She tore it in two. \"I will take a cheque for a hundred, Silas,\" she\nsaid.\n\n\"Why?\" he asked, looking up guiltily at her.",
"himself at Nantasket with the event so perceptibly on his mind that his\nwife asked: \"Well, Silas, has Rogers been borrowing any more money of",
"The colossal fortune of Colonel Silas Lapham lay at the bottom of a\nhole which an uprooted tree had dug for him, and which for many years",
"\"O Silas,\" she faltered, \"they'll think you set it on fire to get the\ninsurance!\"",
"\"We must, Si,\" returned his wife, with gentle gratitude. Lapham\ngroaned. \"Where does he live?\" she asked.\n\n\"On Bolingbroke Street. He gave me his number.\"",
"He went out, and Lapham remained staring at the door which closed upon\nhim. This was his reward for standing firm for right and justice to\nhis own destruction: to feel like a thief and a murderer.",
"\"Oh, let me cry, Silas! It'll help me. I shall be all right in a\nminute. Don't you mind.\" She sobbed herself quiet. \"It does seem too",
"\"Well, then, I'll tell you just what it is, Silas Lapham. He came\nhere\"--she looked about the room and lowered her voice--\"to see you\nabout Irene, and then he hadn't the courage.\"",
"Perhaps because the process of his ruin had been so gradual, perhaps\nbecause the excitement of preceding events had exhausted their capacity\nfor emotion, the actual consummation of his bankruptcy brought a",
"\"Spend it, then,\" said his wife; \"don't throw it away! And how came\nyou to have so much more money than you know what to do with, Silas\nLapham?\" she added.",
"\"Silas,\" she asked, after a long gaze at him, \"why didn't you tell me\nyou had Jim Millon's girl there?\"",
"relief that was almost triumph, lapsed again into severity. \"Silas\nLapham, if you was to die the next minute, is this what you started to\ntell me?\"",
"perfectly bewitched with that fellow! You've lost your head, Silas\nLapham, and if you don't look out you'll lose your money too.\""
],
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"happened to look round at a new house some one was putting up, and I\nsaw the whole family in the window. It appears that Mr. Lapham is\nbuilding the house.\"",
"When the spring opened Colonel Lapham showed that he had been in\nearnest about building on the New Land. His idea of a house was a",
"neighbourhood in to tea, as her mother had done in the country in her\nyounger days. Lapham's idea of hospitality was still to bring a",
"delighted and secretly surprised to find the fellow there; and at\nsomething Seymour said the talk spread suddenly, and the pretty house\nhe was building for Colonel Lapham became the general theme. Young",
"their differences of opinion and all their disputes about the house.\nHe knew just where to insist upon his own ideas, and where to yield.\nHe was really building several other houses, but he gave the Laphams",
"Nothing gave Lapham so much satisfaction in the whole construction of\nhis house as the pile-driving. When this began, early in the summer, he",
"Then he told of his encounter with the Lapham family in their new\nhouse. At the end his mother merely said, \"It is getting very common\ndown there,\" and she did not try to oppose anything further to his\nscheme.",
"Mrs. Lapham was silent a while. \"No,\" she said finally; \"we've always\ngot along well enough here, and I guess we better stay.\"",
"\"Well, I don't want to build on Beacon Street, Si,\" said Mrs. Lapham\ngently.\n\n\"Just as you please, Persis. I ain't in any hurry to leave.\"",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"from the cottage. A hospitable smell of supper filled the air, and\nMrs. Lapham was on the veranda, with that demand in her eyes for her",
"hardly known it till the summer before this story opens, when Mrs.\nLapham and her daughter Irene had met some other Bostonians far from\nBoston, who made it memorable. They were people whom chance had",
"\"I suppose we might as well go on,\" said Mrs. Lapham at last, as they\nreturned to the buggy. The Colonel drove recklessly toward the",
"The foreman went about with Mrs. Lapham, showing her where the doors\nwere to be; but Lapham soon tired of this, and having found a pine",
"of the house, and he showed himself such a master in regard to all the\npractical details that Mrs. Lapham began to feel a motherly affection",
"were going directly into the country instead of to the seaside first;\nbut Lapham, who usually remained in town long after they had gone, knew\nall the difference. For his nerves there was no mechanical sense of",
"not care to have the broker name him or describe the house definitely\nunless parties meant business. Again the broker said yes; and he\nadded, as a joke Lapham would appreciate, that he had half a dozen",
"There was not really a great deal to look at when Lapham arrived on the\nground in his four-seated beach-wagon. But the walls were up, and the",
"\"We must, Si,\" returned his wife, with gentle gratitude. Lapham\ngroaned. \"Where does he live?\" she asked.\n\n\"On Bolingbroke Street. He gave me his number.\"",
"him now, and the fellow did nothing to disturb this impression. He\nentered into that brief but intense intimacy with the Laphams which the\nsympathetic architect holds with his clients. He was privy to all"
],
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"him into the business. Ten years ago he, Silas Lapham, had come to\nBoston a little worse off than nothing at all, for he was in debt for",
"\"Silas Lapham is a fine type of the successful American. He has a\nsquare, bold chin, only partially concealed by the short reddish-grey",
"\"Well, Silas Lapham,\" returned his wife, \"I do believe you've got\nmineral paint on the brain. Do you suppose a fellow like young Corey,",
"WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the \"Solid Men\nof Boston\" series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after",
"\"Well, then, I'll tell you just what it is, Silas Lapham. He came\nhere\"--she looked about the room and lowered her voice--\"to see you\nabout Irene, and then he hadn't the courage.\"",
"The colossal fortune of Colonel Silas Lapham lay at the bottom of a\nhole which an uprooted tree had dug for him, and which for many years",
"\"Spend it, then,\" said his wife; \"don't throw it away! And how came\nyou to have so much more money than you know what to do with, Silas\nLapham?\" she added.",
"\"No. But it puts him where he can make the advances without demeaning\nhimself, and it puts you where you can't. Now, look here, Silas Lapham!",
"Mrs. Lapham dropped into a chair, and watched his bulk shaken with\nsmothered laughter. \"Silas Lapham,\" she gasped, \"if you try to get off\nany more of those things on me----\"",
"anywhere, five minutes a day are something in the course of a year.\nSimple, clear, bold, and straightforward in mind and action, Colonel\nSilas Lapham, with a prompt comprehensiveness and a never-failing",
"\"Pshaw! YOU scared, Silas Lapham?\" cried his wife proudly. \"I should\nlike to see the thing that ever scared you; or the knockdown that YOU\ncouldn't pick up from!\"",
"His wife began, \"Why, it's just this, Silas Lapham!\" and then she broke\noff to say, \"Well, you may wait, now--starting me wrong, when it's hard\nenough anyway.\"",
"\"Don't you suppose I can see through you I declare, Silas Lapham, if I\ndidn't know different, I should say you were about the biggest fool!",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"relief that was almost triumph, lapsed again into severity. \"Silas\nLapham, if you was to die the next minute, is this what you started to\ntell me?\"",
"prosperity had been so gross and palpable; and he had now a burning\ndesire to know exactly how, at the bottom of his heart, Lapham still",
"Up to a certain point in their prosperity Mrs. Lapham had kept strict\naccount of all her husband's affairs; but as they expanded, and ceased",
"As Sewell afterwards told his wife, he could see that the loss of his\nfortune had been a terrible trial to Lapham, just because his",
"Bartley saw his opportunity at the word paint, and cut in. \"And you\nsay, Mr. Lapham, that you discovered this mineral paint on the old farm\nyourself?\"",
"\"Mr. Lapham,\" he wrote, \"passed rapidly over the story of his early\nlife, its poverty and its hardships, sweetened, however, by the"
],
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"They were people who could value Lapham's behaviour as Tom reported it\nto them. They were proud of him, and Bromfield Corey, who found a",
"This seemed to satisfy Mrs. Lapham as to her husband, and she said in\ndefence of Corey, \"Why, I don't see what HE'S done. It's all been our\ndoing.\"",
"\"Corey? Oh!\" said Lapham, affecting not to have thought she could mean\nCorey. \"He proposed it.\"\n\n\"Likely!\" jeered his wife, but with perfect amiability.",
"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"\"I don't wish to help it, Tom,\" said Mrs. Corey, with a cheerfullness\nwhich the thought of the Laphams had never brought her before. \"I am",
"Lapham gathered himself together as well as he could. He had not yet\nforgiven Corey for Mrs. Lapham's insinuation that he would feel himself",
"\"They're distant acquaintances of mine,\" returned Mrs. Lapham quietly;\n\"and this young Corey is a clerk of yours. And I want we should hold",
"both have preferred to have Tom marry in his own set; the Laphams are\nabout the last set we could have wished him to marry into. They ARE",
"\"Perhaps he has, after all.\"\n\n\"No,\" said Mrs. Lapham. \"She pleases him when he sees her. But he\ndoesn't try to see her.\"",
"\"I don't see how. I dare say Mamma Lapham knows whether Tom is in love\nwith her daughter or not; and no doubt Papa Lapham knows it at second",
"and the handsome old fellow whom Mrs. Corey had introduced as her\ncousin took Irene out. Lapham was startled from the misgiving in which",
"\"I don't believe young men can tell whether girls are conscious or\nnot,\" said Mrs. Corey. \"But I am not saying the Miss Laphams are",
"Lapham,\" but Mrs. Lapham had her doubts whether it would not be a\nservile imitation to say \"Dear Mrs. Corey\" in return; and she was",
"\"Oh, that was nothing!\" cried Lapham. \"There's nothing Mrs. Lapham\nlikes better than a chance of that sort. Mrs. Corey and the young\nladies well?\"",
"\"Well, Silas Lapham,\" returned his wife, \"I do believe you've got\nmineral paint on the brain. Do you suppose a fellow like young Corey,",
"He was in this successful mood when word came to him that Mrs. Lapham\nwas going; Tom Corey seemed to have brought it, but he was not sure.",
"Lapham silently turned his whip over and over in his hand and waited.\n\n\"Did you suppose,\" she asked at last, \"that that young Corey had been\ncoming to see Irene?\"",
"When the latter turned from Irene to make one of these excursions into\nthe general talk, young Corey talked to her; and Lapham caught some",
"\"Yes,\" said Mrs. Corey, without assenting.\n\n\"I mean the Colonel and myself,\" explained Mrs. Lapham.\n\n\"Oh yes--yes!\" said Mrs. Corey.",
"\"Oh yes, I began it,\" confessed Mrs. Lapham. \"Pen,\" she broke out,\n\"what do you suppose he means by it?\"\n\n\"Who? Mr. Corey's father? What does the Colonel think?\""
],
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"\"I hinted nothing,\" said Mrs. Corey, descending to the weakness of\ndefending herself. \"But I saw quite enough to convince me that the\ngirl is in love with Tom, and the mother knows it.\"",
"\"I'm afraid it wouldn't matter to Tom if he didn't; and I don't know\nthat I should care,\" said Corey, betraying the fact that he had perhaps",
"He started toward the door of the drawing-room to take leave of the\nladies; but Tom Corey was at his elbow, saying, \"I think Mrs. Lapham is",
"more sympathetic listener than his own son. The clear mind which\nproduced nothing but practical results reflected everything with\ncharming lucidity; and it must have been this which endeared Tom Corey",
"\"Why, I don't know exactly what you mean, mother. I suppose he likes\nme.\"\n\nMrs. Corey could not say just what she meant. She answered,\nineffectually enough--",
"\"Yes,\" said Bromfield Corey. \"Tom has had the pleasure which I hope\nfor of seeing you all. I hope you're able to make him useful to you",
"\"Yes--yes, she is,\" said Mrs. Corey, at some cost.\n\n\"She's good, too,\" said Corey, \"and perfectly innocent and transparent.\nI think you will like her the better the more you know her.\"",
"conscience against it, and I rather like him for it. I married for\nlove myself,\" said Corey, looking across the table at his wife.",
"\"Yes, it has; it has continued the same,\" said Mrs. Corey, again\nexpressing the fact by a contradiction in terms. \"I think I must ask\nTom outright.\"",
"\"If Tom must go into such a business,\" said Mrs. Corey, \"I'm glad James\napproves of it.\"",
"\"You make me very happy,\" said Bromfield Corey. \"Very happy indeed.\nI've always had the idea that there was something in my son, if he",
"\"Yes,\" said Mrs. Corey.\n\n\"Well,\" demanded her husband, at their first meeting after her\ninterview with their son, \"what did you say to Tom?\"",
"These things continually happen in novels; and the Coreys, as they had\nalways promised themselves to do, made the best, and not the worst of\nTom's marriage.",
"\"Oh! I know it,\" sighed Mrs. Corey. \"I wish Tom would be a little\nopener with me.\"",
"\"It seems to me that the way has been found already. Tom has told his\nlove to the right one, and the wrong one knows it. Time will do the\nrest.\"",
"\"I've been reading that book since you were down at Nantasket.\"\n\n\"Book?\" repeated Corey, while she reddened with disappointment. \"Oh\nyes. Middlemarch. Did you like it?\"",
"\"Tom needn't earn his living,\" said Mrs. Corey, refusing her husband's\njest. \"There's still enough for all of us.\"",
"excellences. Some of the more nervous and excitable said that Tom\nCorey was as sweet as he could live; but this perhaps meant no more\nthan the word alone. No man ever had a son less like him than",
"hands, now open and now shut, and breathing hard. He heard quiet\ntalking beyond the portiere within, and presently Tom Corey came out.",
"\"That is true,\" answered Corey, with meek conviction. \"I never thought\nof that.\""
],
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"\"Tom,\" cried his mother, \"why do you think Mr. Lapham has taken you\ninto business so readily? I've always heard that it was so hard for\nyoung men to get in.\"",
"paint, might recover and he could start again. Lapham had not agreed\nwith him. When his reverses first began it had seemed easy for him to",
"him into the business. Ten years ago he, Silas Lapham, had come to\nBoston a little worse off than nothing at all, for he was in debt for",
"Lapham lifted his head and looked at the young man, deeply moved.\n\n\"It's the best paint in God's universe,\" he said with the solemnity of\nprayer.",
"\"I guess he believes in something else besides the paint,\" said Mrs.\nLapham.\n\n\"What do you mean?\"",
"\"Well, Silas Lapham,\" returned his wife, \"I do believe you've got\nmineral paint on the brain. Do you suppose a fellow like young Corey,",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"paint. And Mis' Lapham was with me every time. No hang back about\nHER. I tell you she was a WOMAN!\"",
"\"What then?\" echoed Lapham. \"Well, then, the fellow set down and told\nme, 'You've got a paint here,' says he, 'that's going to drive every",
"Bartley saw his opportunity at the word paint, and cut in. \"And you\nsay, Mr. Lapham, that you discovered this mineral paint on the old farm\nyourself?\"",
"Lapham acquiesced in the return to business. \"I didn't discover it,\"\nhe said scrupulously. \"My father found it one day, in a hole made by a",
"\"There ain't money enough in this country to buy out my paint,\" said\nLapham, buttoning up his coat in a quiver of resentment. \"Good",
"he could put in a certain sum for this purpose, they would go in with\nhim. He should run the works at Lapham and manage the business in",
"Lapham which she would have found hard to bear; but now she almost\nwelcomed them. At the end of three days Lapham returned, and his wife",
"By the time this letter came, Lapham had gone to his business, and the\nmother carried it to Penelope to talk over. \"What do you make out of",
"\"We're about ninety miles from Brandon. The Brandon's a good paint,\"\nsaid Lapham conscientiously. \"Like to show you round up at our place\nsome odd time, if you get off.\"",
"business. What is he afraid of?\" demanded Lapham angrily. \"Does he\nthink I'm going to jump at a chance to get in with him, if he gives me",
"in support of the life of idleness. It appears that he wishes to do\nsomething--to do something for himself. I am afraid that Tom is\nselfish.\"",
"Lapham gathered himself together as well as he could. He had not yet\nforgiven Corey for Mrs. Lapham's insinuation that he would feel himself",
"\"Don't hurry,\" said Lapham. \"Sit still! I want to tell you about this\npaint,\" he added, in a voice husky with the feeling that his hearer"
],
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"\"I fancy that's the way with the Lapham family,\" said the young man,\nsmilingly. \"But they are very good people. The other daughter is\nhumorous.\"",
"straight, I don't know what would become of me.\" \"My other daughter,\"\nsaid Lapham, indicating a girl with eyes that showed large, and a face",
"himself. He perceived how far apart in all their experiences and\nideals the Lapham girls and his sisters were; how different Mrs. Lapham",
"American Woman, and to redeem it from the national reproach of Daisy\nMillerism. Of Colonel Lapham's family, we will simply add that it\nconsists of two young lady daughters.",
"Mrs. Lapham could not help putting in on behalf of her daughters: \"I\nguess if it was left to the girls to say, we shouldn't leave it at all.\"",
"Lapham?\" she said, shaking hands in quick succession with Mrs. Lapham\nand Irene, and now addressing herself to him.",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"talk like her.\" She gave the shaving a little toss from her, and took\nthe parasol up across her lap. The unworldliness of the Lapham girls",
"\"Mrs. Lapham, yes. I don't think the young ladies care so much about\nit.\"",
"years. If Mrs. Lapham had rung in the parlour, her second girl would\nhave gone to the street door to see who was there. She went upstairs",
"Mrs. Lapham attempted to say something, and could not. She went out\nand opened Irene's door. The girl lifted her head drowsily from her",
"It was she and her daughters who would be chiefly annoyed by the Lapham\nconnection; she knew that. But she had to begin to bear the burden by",
"\"No,\" said his mother. \"Is Mrs. Lapham well? And her daughter?\"",
"\"I don't think that is exactly the case with the Lapham family,\" said\nthe son, smiling. \"The father and mother rather apologised about not\ngetting time to read, and the young ladies by no means scorned it.\"",
"Lapham which she would have found hard to bear; but now she almost\nwelcomed them. At the end of three days Lapham returned, and his wife",
"hardly known it till the summer before this story opens, when Mrs.\nLapham and her daughter Irene had met some other Bostonians far from\nBoston, who made it memorable. They were people whom chance had",
"\"Irene Lapham.\"",
"LAPHAM and his wife continued talking after he had quelled the\ndisturbance in his daughters' room overhead; and their talk was not\naltogether of the new house.",
"Lapham,\" but Mrs. Lapham had her doubts whether it would not be a\nservile imitation to say \"Dear Mrs. Corey\" in return; and she was",
"\"Penelope?\" asked Mrs. Lapham, eased a little. \"She is at home. I\nwill go and call her.\" The Laphams had not yet thought of spending"
],
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"happened to look round at a new house some one was putting up, and I\nsaw the whole family in the window. It appears that Mr. Lapham is\nbuilding the house.\"",
"\"We must, Si,\" returned his wife, with gentle gratitude. Lapham\ngroaned. \"Where does he live?\" she asked.\n\n\"On Bolingbroke Street. He gave me his number.\"",
"When the spring opened Colonel Lapham showed that he had been in\nearnest about building on the New Land. His idea of a house was a",
"Then he told of his encounter with the Lapham family in their new\nhouse. At the end his mother merely said, \"It is getting very common\ndown there,\" and she did not try to oppose anything further to his\nscheme.",
"Lapham started the mare up and drove swiftly homeward. At last his\nwife stopped crying and began trying to find her pocket. \"Here, take",
"from the cottage. A hospitable smell of supper filled the air, and\nMrs. Lapham was on the veranda, with that demand in her eyes for her",
"LAPHAM and his wife continued talking after he had quelled the\ndisturbance in his daughters' room overhead; and their talk was not\naltogether of the new house.",
"delighted and secretly surprised to find the fellow there; and at\nsomething Seymour said the talk spread suddenly, and the pretty house\nhe was building for Colonel Lapham became the general theme. Young",
"\"I suppose we might as well go on,\" said Mrs. Lapham at last, as they\nreturned to the buggy. The Colonel drove recklessly toward the",
"Mrs. Lapham repeated their name. Lapham nodded his head. \"Do you know\nthem? What business is he in?\"\n\n\"I guess he ain't in anything,\" said Lapham.",
"years. If Mrs. Lapham had rung in the parlour, her second girl would\nhave gone to the street door to see who was there. She went upstairs",
"By the time this letter came, Lapham had gone to his business, and the\nmother carried it to Penelope to talk over. \"What do you make out of",
"\"Well, I don't want to build on Beacon Street, Si,\" said Mrs. Lapham\ngently.\n\n\"Just as you please, Persis. I ain't in any hurry to leave.\"",
"\"Then, of course, it will be very handsome. I suppose the young ladies\nare very much taken up with it; and Mrs. Lapham.\"",
"not care to have the broker name him or describe the house definitely\nunless parties meant business. Again the broker said yes; and he\nadded, as a joke Lapham would appreciate, that he had half a dozen",
"Lapham which she would have found hard to bear; but now she almost\nwelcomed them. At the end of three days Lapham returned, and his wife",
"The matter dropped, and the Laphams lived on as before, with joking\nrecurrences to the house on the water side of Beacon. The Colonel",
"Mrs. Lapham suffered him to enjoy the sight twenty or thirty times\nbefore she said, \"Well, now drive on, Si.\"",
"AFTER dropping Bartley Hubbard at the Events building, Lapham drove on\ndown Washington Street to Nankeen Square at the South End, where he had",
"There was not really a great deal to look at when Lapham arrived on the\nground in his four-seated beach-wagon. But the walls were up, and the"
],
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"\"I fancy that's the way with the Lapham family,\" said the young man,\nsmilingly. \"But they are very good people. The other daughter is\nhumorous.\"",
"When you come to know her. The words implied an expectation that the\ntwo families were to be better acquainted.\n\n\"Then she is more intellectual than her sister?\" Mrs. Corey ventured.",
"straight, I don't know what would become of me.\" \"My other daughter,\"\nsaid Lapham, indicating a girl with eyes that showed large, and a face",
"himself. He perceived how far apart in all their experiences and\nideals the Lapham girls and his sisters were; how different Mrs. Lapham",
"\"Perhaps he has, after all.\"\n\n\"No,\" said Mrs. Lapham. \"She pleases him when he sees her. But he\ndoesn't try to see her.\"",
"\"Well,\" said Lapham, tacitly granting this point, and leaning back in\nhis chair in supreme content. \"Did you ever see much nicer girls\nanywhere?\"",
"The next day, at the first moment of finding herself alone with her\neldest daughter, Mrs. Lapham asked, as if knowing that Penelope must",
"talk like her.\" She gave the shaving a little toss from her, and took\nthe parasol up across her lap. The unworldliness of the Lapham girls",
"Mrs. Lapham smiled ruefully. \"She isn't really equal to him, Pen. I\nmisdoubted that from the first, and it's been borne in upon me more and",
"\"She's got sense enough. But she ain't so practical as Irene. She's\nmore up in the clouds--more of what you may call a dreamer. Irene's",
"than she had been, and helpfuller with him and her mother. Now and\nthen Lapham opened his troubled soul to her a little, letting his",
"Mrs. Lapham could not help putting in on behalf of her daughters: \"I\nguess if it was left to the girls to say, we shouldn't leave it at all.\"",
"The whole family joined in the discussion, and it appeared that they\nall had their opinions of the plays and actors. Mrs. Lapham brought\nthe talk back to literature. \"I guess Penelope does most of our\nreading.\"",
"any of them; she was just as bright; and Lapham was aware that Irene\nwas not as bright, though when he looked at her face, triumphant in its",
"Bartley laughed. \"That's the sort most of us marry.\"\n\n\"No, we don't,\" said Lapham. \"Most of us marry silly little girls\ngrown up to LOOK like women.\"",
"years. If Mrs. Lapham had rung in the parlour, her second girl would\nhave gone to the street door to see who was there. She went upstairs",
"It was she and her daughters who would be chiefly annoyed by the Lapham\nconnection; she knew that. But she had to begin to bear the burden by",
"By the time this letter came, Lapham had gone to his business, and the\nmother carried it to Penelope to talk over. \"What do you make out of",
"\"I don't think that is exactly the case with the Lapham family,\" said\nthe son, smiling. \"The father and mother rather apologised about not\ngetting time to read, and the young ladies by no means scorned it.\"",
"Penelope had gone to her room, without waiting to be asked to advise or\ncriticise; but Irene had decided upon the paper, and on the whole, Mrs.\nLapham's note made a very decent appearance on the page."
],
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"\"I fancy that's the way with the Lapham family,\" said the young man,\nsmilingly. \"But they are very good people. The other daughter is\nhumorous.\"",
"\"Well,\" said Lapham, tacitly granting this point, and leaning back in\nhis chair in supreme content. \"Did you ever see much nicer girls\nanywhere?\"",
"straight, I don't know what would become of me.\" \"My other daughter,\"\nsaid Lapham, indicating a girl with eyes that showed large, and a face",
"\"Then, of course, it will be very handsome. I suppose the young ladies\nare very much taken up with it; and Mrs. Lapham.\"",
"\"Perhaps he has, after all.\"\n\n\"No,\" said Mrs. Lapham. \"She pleases him when he sees her. But he\ndoesn't try to see her.\"",
"talk like her.\" She gave the shaving a little toss from her, and took\nthe parasol up across her lap. The unworldliness of the Lapham girls",
"himself. He perceived how far apart in all their experiences and\nideals the Lapham girls and his sisters were; how different Mrs. Lapham",
"Mrs. Lapham could not help putting in on behalf of her daughters: \"I\nguess if it was left to the girls to say, we shouldn't leave it at all.\"",
"answered, with what composure she could, \"I will take your sisters,\"\nand then she made some natural inquiries about Lapham's affairs. \"Oh,",
"American Woman, and to redeem it from the national reproach of Daisy\nMillerism. Of Colonel Lapham's family, we will simply add that it\nconsists of two young lady daughters.",
"The next day, at the first moment of finding herself alone with her\neldest daughter, Mrs. Lapham asked, as if knowing that Penelope must",
"Lapham leaned a little toward Mrs. Corey, and said of a picture which\nhe saw on the wall opposite, \"Picture of your daughter, I presume?\"",
"than she had been, and helpfuller with him and her mother. Now and\nthen Lapham opened his troubled soul to her a little, letting his",
"the inevitable. I think a Lapham dinner would be delightful.\" He\nlooked at her with delicate irony in his voice and smile, and she",
"years. If Mrs. Lapham had rung in the parlour, her second girl would\nhave gone to the street door to see who was there. She went upstairs",
"beautiful, as pretty as all the rest of them put together, but she was\nnot talking, and Lapham perceived that at a dinner-party you ought to",
"When you come to know her. The words implied an expectation that the\ntwo families were to be better acquainted.\n\n\"Then she is more intellectual than her sister?\" Mrs. Corey ventured.",
"\"She's a wonderful complexion,\" said the son unsatisfactorily. \"I\nshall want to be by when father and Colonel Lapham meet,\" he added,\nwith a smile.",
"There was a barb in this that rankled after the ladies had gone; and on\ncomparing notes with her daughter, Mrs. Lapham found that a barb had\nbeen left to rankle in her mind also.",
"and Mrs. Lapham, while keeping a more youthful outline, showed the\nsharp print of the crow's-foot at the corners of her motherly eyes, and"
],
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"them. You're a thief, Milton K. Rogers, and you stole money I lent\nyou.\" Rogers sat listening, as if respectfully considering the",
"the day they had driven out to Brookline. \"Milton K. Rogers is a\nrascal, if you want to know; or else all the signs fail. But I guess",
"The Colonel laughed scoffingly. \"Well, when Milton K. Rogers don't\nknow which side his bread's buttered on! I don't understand,\" he added",
"Rogers, but had heard of the patent in another way; and Lapham was\nastonished in the afternoon, when his boy came to tell him that Rogers\nwas in the outer office, and wished to speak with him.",
"have made anybody else rich. But you can't make Milton K. Rogers rich,\nany more than you can fat a hide-bound colt. It ain't in him. He'd",
"After a moment Mrs. Lapham asked, \"Is it--Rogers?\"\n\n\"It's Rogers.\"\n\n\"I didn't want you should get in any deeper with him.\"",
"it's going to build car-works right by those mills, and it may want\nthem. And Milton K. Rogers knew it when he turned 'em in on me.\"",
"Rogers. And I told him so last night.\"",
"\"If you think I'm going to help you whip the devil round the stump,\nyou're mistaken in your man, Milton Rogers,\" said Lapham, lighting a",
"\"I'm glad to be let live,\" said Lapham stubbornly, \"but I hadn't\nanything to make up to Milton K. Rogers. And if God has let me live\nfor that----\"",
"\"Oh, indeed!\" said Rogers; \"I think he will see ME!\" and he pressed\nforward.",
"Rogers looked compassionately at him, but he answered, with unvaried\ndryness, \"I did not think that necessary.\"",
"about Rogers, I might trust you a little. But I see I can't. I presume\nas long as you live you'll have to be nosed about like a perfect--I\ndon't know what!\"",
"meetings. He went back to his first connection with Rogers, and he put\nbefore Sewell hypothetically his own conclusions in regard to the\nmatter.",
"arranged the whole thing with Rogers, and I hope you'll be satisfied to\nknow that he owes me twenty thousand dollars, and that I've got",
"Rogers came promptly at the appointed time, and Lapham handed him the\nletter. He must have taken it all in at a glance, and seen the",
"It was perfectly true. Any lawyer would have told him the same. He\ncould not help admiring Rogers for his ingenuity, and every selfish",
"something, when he had thought it worth nothing; and when the\ntransaction was closed, he asked the purchaser rather eagerly if he\nknew where Rogers was; it was Lapham's secret belief that Rogers had",
"\"Please to sit down,\" he said; \"he'll see you pretty soon;\" and, with\nan air of some surprise, Rogers obeyed. His sere, dull-brown whiskers",
"Lapham laughed, but she urged so many reasons for her belief in Rogers\nthat Lapham began to rekindle his own faith a little. He ended by"
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"Where does the Lapham family build their new home?",
"What does Tom Corey do in order to no longer rely on his fathers's savings?",
"Who does Tom Corey reveal he loves?",
"Who is Silas Lapham's former business partner?",
"What happens as a result of Lapham's dealings with Rogers?",
"What happens to the new home on Beacon Street after Milton K. Rogers reappears asking for money?",
"Where do the Laphams have to move after the new home burns down?",
"Who does everyone think Tom Corey is attracted to?",
"Who does Penelope fear she will betray if she acts on her feelings for Tom Corey?",
"Who is being interviewed at the beginning of the story?",
"In what profession does Lapham gain his wealth?",
"Where do the Laphams build their new home?",
"Who joins the mineral paint business with the Laphams?",
"Who does everyone assume Tom is romantically interested in?",
"Which of the Lapham girls is Tom really interested in?",
"Why does Penelope fear becoming romantically involved with Tom?",
"Who is Milton Rogers?",
"Why does Mrs. Lapham encourage Silas to financially support Rogers' endeavors?",
"What causes Silas significant financial loss at the end of the story?",
"What neighborhood did the Laphams decide to build theiir house in?",
"How did Silas Lapham make his fortune?",
"Who do the Laphams think Tom Corey is attracted to?",
"Who does Tom Corey profess his love for?",
"Who joins the Lapham's paint business in order to not rely on his father's support?",
"What are the names of the Lapham's daughters?",
"What street will the Lapham's new house be located on?",
"Which of the Lapham's daughters is described as being more intelligent?",
"Which of the Lapham's daughters is said to be the more comely of the two?",
"Who is Milton K. Rogers?"
] |
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],
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],
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],
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"Silas Lapham."
],
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],
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"Back Bay"
],
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],
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],
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],
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"She does not want to hurt her sister"
],
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],
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"They were business partners but Silas pushed Rogers out of the company."
],
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],
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],
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