He Comes Up Smiling Author:Charles Sherman General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It... more » has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV AND WHEN I DINE HENRIETTA turned sidewise that she might the better converse with her guest. "I noticed by the papers that you always make it a point to spend Sundays in the country somewhere near New York, so that you can return quickly in your car. I suppose that you really need the rest and quiet for your week's work." "I never work when I can rest," said the Watermelon truthfully. "That's right, that's right," agreed the general, torn between a desire to talk to the phenomenal young financier, who in one night had set New York all agog, and to avoid a smash- up with the stone walls on either side of the road. "Men are altogether too eager to make money." "Yes," said Henrietta. "Everything nowadays is money, money, money." Then remembering who her guest was, she added quickly, "I think it is splendid in your getting away from it all and spending one day a week in the country, close to nature. They say that stock-brokers are never happy away from the Street." "But I am not a stock-broker," explained the Watermelon, with his candid, boyish smile. "I'm a lamb." Henrietta laughed. "But not fleeced," said she gaily. "Not yet," admitted the Watermelon, wondering if William Hargrave Batchelor was still enjoying his swim. "What you want to do, now that you have made your 'pile,'" advised the general, as the machine swerved dangerously near a tree, "is to leave the Street at once. Invest you...« less