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@@ -1,36 +1,4 @@ -Project Gutenberg's The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Beautiful and Damned - -Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald - -Release Date: October 22, 2003 [EBook #9830] -Last updated: January 29, 2020 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED *** - - - - -Produced by Stan Goodman, Audrey Longhurst, and Project -Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders - - - - - - - +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 9830 *** @@ -44,9 +12,6 @@ BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD - - - _Novels_ THE LAST TYCOON @@ -212,7 +177,7 @@ infinitesimally on his grandson Anthony. Early in his career Adam Patch had married an anemic lady of thirty, Alicia Withers, who brought him one hundred thousand dollars and an -impeccable entré into the banking circles of New York. Immediately and +impeccable entré into the banking circles of New York. Immediately and rather spunkily she had borne him a son and, as if completely devitalized by the magnificence of this performance, she had thenceforth effaced herself within the shadowy dimensions of the nursery. The boy, @@ -639,7 +604,7 @@ then paused in his tracks with the cigarette two inches from his mouth--which fell faintly ajar. His eyes were focussed upon a spot of brilliant color on the roof of a house farther down the alley. -It was a girl in a red negligé, silk surely, drying her hair by the +It was a girl in a red negligé, silk surely, drying her hair by the still hot sun of late afternoon. His whistle died upon the stiff air of the room; he walked cautiously another step nearer the window with a sudden impression that she was beautiful. Sitting on the stone parapet @@ -772,7 +737,7 @@ his finger as a signal--lifts it as though it were a soft and friendly claw.)_ Here y'are, Caramel. A NEW VOICE: _(Fiercely)_ Hello, Maury. Hello, Anthony Comstock Patch. -How is old Adam's grandson? Débutantes still after you, eh? +How is old Adam's grandson? Débutantes still after you, eh? _In person_ RICHARD CARAMEL _is short and fair--he is to be bald at thirty-five. He has yellowish eyes--one of them startlingly clear, the @@ -1105,7 +1070,7 @@ girls were casting their eyes, with license at last to do so, upon a society of young Tammany politicians, pious undertakers, and grown-up choirboys. -And, naturally, the city caught the contagious air of entré--the working +And, naturally, the city caught the contagious air of entré--the working girls, poor ugly souls, wrapping soap in the factories and showing finery in the big stores, dreamed that perhaps in the spectacular excitement of this winter they might obtain for themselves the coveted @@ -1166,7 +1131,7 @@ Anthony grunted and withdrew his arm gently. "I mean," continued Richard Caramel gravely, "that on paper your first paragraph contains the idea you're going to damn or enlarge on. In -conversation you've got your vis-à-vis's last statement--but when you +conversation you've got your vis-à -vis's last statement--but when you simply _ponder_, why, your ideas just succeed each other like magic-lantern pictures and each one forces out the last." @@ -1317,7 +1282,7 @@ Somewhat mollified, Dick rejoined: "I've often said you were a Philistine at heart." -It was a crackling dusk when they turned in under the white façade of +It was a crackling dusk when they turned in under the white façade of the Plaza and tasted slowly the foam and yellow thickness of an egg-nog. Anthony looked at his companion. Richard Caramel's nose and brow were slowly approaching a like pigmentation; the red was leaving the one, the @@ -1691,13 +1656,13 @@ They drifted from letters to the curiosities of each other's day. "People named Abercrombie." -"Why'd you stay late? Meet a luscious débutante?" +"Why'd you stay late? Meet a luscious débutante?" "Yes." "Did you really?" Anthony's voice lifted in surprise. -"Not a débutante exactly. Said she came out two winters ago in Kansas +"Not a débutante exactly. Said she came out two winters ago in Kansas City." "Sort of left-over?" @@ -1738,7 +1703,7 @@ Anthony rocked in glee. "My God! Whose legs?" "Hers. She talked a lot about hers. As though they were a sort of choice -bric-à-brac. She aroused a great desire to see them." +bric-à -brac. She aroused a great desire to see them." "What is she--a dancer?" @@ -1948,7 +1913,7 @@ Meaninglessness of Life. As aides and ministers, pages and squires, butlers and lackeys to this great Khan there were a thousand books glowing on his shelves, there was his apartment and all the money that was to be his when the old man up the river should choke on his last -morality. From a world fraught with the menace of débutantes and the +morality. From a world fraught with the menace of débutantes and the stupidity of many Geraldines he was thankfully delivered--rather should he emulate the feline immobility of Maury and wear proudly the culminative wisdom of the numbered generations. @@ -2245,7 +2210,7 @@ Carefully, Gloria considered several locations, and rather to Anthony's annoyance paraded him circuitously to a table for two at the far side of the room. Reaching it she again considered. Would she sit on the right or on the left? Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made -her choice, and Anthony thought again how naïve was her every gesture; +her choice, and Anthony thought again how naïve was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter. @@ -2559,7 +2524,7 @@ many babies, and float helpless and uncontent in a colorless sea of drudgery and broken hopes. They name these brummagem cabarets after Pullman cars. The "Marathon"! -Not for them the salacious similes borrowed from the cafés of Paris! +Not for them the salacious similes borrowed from the cafés of Paris! This is where their docile patrons bring their "nice women," whose starved fancies are only too willing to believe that the scene is comparatively gay and joyous, and even faintly immoral. This is life! @@ -2608,7 +2573,7 @@ passing to the next with unconcealed enjoyment, and to Anthony were made plain the different values of her profile, the wonderfully alive expressions of her mouth, and the authentic distinction of face and form and manner that made her like a single flower amidst a collection of -cheap bric-à-brac. At her happiness, a gorgeous sentiment welled into +cheap bric-à -brac. At her happiness, a gorgeous sentiment welled into his eyes, choked him up, set his nerves a-tingle, and filled his throat with husky and vibrant emotion. There was a hush upon the room. The careless violins and saxophones, the shrill rasping complaint of a child @@ -2716,7 +2681,7 @@ same smells, though he fancied that these grew more profuse and diverse as the months passed. His eventual conclusions about the expediency of service were vague, but concerning his own relation to it they were abrupt and decisive. Any amiable young man, his head ringing with the -latest crusade, could accomplish as much as he could with the débris of +latest crusade, could accomplish as much as he could with the débris of Europe--and it was time for him to write. He had been living in a down-town Y.M.C.A., but when he quit the task of @@ -2742,7 +2707,7 @@ overpowering him, until he walked haggard and conquered in its shadow. Not only to Anthony and Maury did he pour out his hopes and boasts and indecisions, but to any one who could be prevailed upon to listen. He called on polite but bewildered publishers, he discussed it with his -casual vis-à-vis at the Harvard Club; it was even claimed by Anthony +casual vis-à -vis at the Harvard Club; it was even claimed by Anthony that he had been discovered, one Sunday night, debating the transposition of Chapter Two with a literary ticket-collector in the chill and dismal recesses of a Harlem subway station. And latest among @@ -3117,7 +3082,7 @@ gin, and absinthe for a proper stimulant. Geraldine Burke, usher at Keith's, had been an amusement of several months. She demanded so little that he liked her, for since a lamentable -affair with a débutante the preceding summer, when he had discovered +affair with a débutante the preceding summer, when he had discovered that after half a dozen kisses a proposal was expected, he had been wary of girls of his own class. It was only too easy to turn a critical eye on their imperfections: some physical harshness or a general lack of @@ -3304,7 +3269,7 @@ trees in the distance, the vineyards, quiet and green, freshening wide miles before him. He leaned his elbows on the window casement and gazed at the winding road. -"Now, as it happened, Thérèse, a peasant girl of sixteen from a +"Now, as it happened, Thérèse, a peasant girl of sixteen from a neighboring village, was at that moment passing along this same road that ran in front of the monastery. Five minutes before, the little piece of ribbon which held up the stocking on her pretty left leg had @@ -3323,7 +3288,7 @@ soft powdery sound--and, first headlong, then head over heels, finally in a vast and impressive revolution tumbled the Chevalier O'Keefe, bound for the hard earth and eternal damnation. -"Thérèse was so much upset by the occurrence that she ran all the way +"Thérèse was so much upset by the occurrence that she ran all the way home and for ten years spent an hour a day in secret prayer for the soul of the monk whose neck and vows were simultaneously broken on that unfortunate Sunday afternoon. @@ -3354,7 +3319,7 @@ she stood for a moment in the doorway. "You _will_ get married," she was insisting, "you wait and see." Anthony was playing with an ancient tennis ball, and he bounced it -carefully on the floor several times before he answered with a soupçon +carefully on the floor several times before he answered with a soupçon of acidity: "You're a little idiot, Geraldine." @@ -3688,7 +3653,7 @@ they stepped into the empty elevator: "I've been biting 'em all day. A bit nervous, you see. Excuse the pun. It was unintentional--the words just arranged themselves. Gloria Gilbert, the female wag." -Reaching the ground floor they naïvely avoided the hotel candy counter, +Reaching the ground floor they naïvely avoided the hotel candy counter, descended the wide front staircase, and walking through several corridors found a drug-store in the Grand Central Station. After an intense examination of the perfume counter she made her purchase. Then @@ -3778,9 +3743,9 @@ gone from the iron and the glow from the coal. Along the shelves of Anthony's library, filling a wall amply, crept a chill and insolent pencil of sunlight touching with frigid disapproval -Thérèse of France and Ann the Superwoman, Jenny of the Orient Ballet and +Thérèse of France and Ann the Superwoman, Jenny of the Orient Ballet and Zuleika the Conjurer--and Hoosier Cora--then down a shelf and into the -years, resting pityingly on the over-invoked shades of Helen, Thaïs, +years, resting pityingly on the over-invoked shades of Helen, Thaïs, Salome, and Cleopatra. Anthony, shaved and bathed, sat in his most deeply cushioned chair and @@ -3883,7 +3848,7 @@ wiser than he, they haply sought to recapture that picture done in cream and shadow they had seen on the hushed Avenue the night before. And they might, ah, they might! A thousand taxis would yawn at a thousand corners, and only to him was that kiss forever lost and done. In a -thousand guises Thaïs would hail a cab and turn up her face for loving. +thousand guises Thaïs would hail a cab and turn up her face for loving. And her pallor would be virginal and lovely, and her kiss chaste as the moon.... @@ -4489,7 +4454,7 @@ was in evening dress. "Well, I'll be hurrying on. I'm going to dinner with Miss Gilbert." Death looked suddenly out at him from two blue eyes. Had he announced -himself as his vis-à-vis's prospective murderer he could not have struck +himself as his vis-à -vis's prospective murderer he could not have struck a more vital blow at Anthony. The younger man must have reddened visibly, for his every nerve was in instant clamor. With tremendous effort he mustered a rigid--oh, so rigid--smile, and said a conventional @@ -5136,7 +5101,7 @@ annoyance Gloria publicly boasted that she had never read "The Demon Lover," and didn't intend to until every one stopped talking about it. As a matter of fact, she had no time to read now, for the presents were pouring in--first a scattering, then an avalanche, varying from the -bric-à-brac of forgotten family friends to the photographs of forgotten +bric-à -brac of forgotten family friends to the photographs of forgotten poor relations. Maury gave them an elaborate "drinking set," which included silver @@ -5433,7 +5398,7 @@ pails by the bookcases._ THE FIRST YOUNG MAN: By golly! Believe me, in my next book I'm going to do a wedding scene that'll knock 'em cold! -THE SECOND YOUNG MAN: Met a débutante th'other day said she thought your +THE SECOND YOUNG MAN: Met a débutante th'other day said she thought your book was powerful. As a rule young girls cry for this primitive business. THE THIRD YOUNG MAN: Where's Anthony? @@ -5679,7 +5644,7 @@ that usually steadied him when he thought he was observed. The trait first showed itself in a dozen incidents of little more than nervousness--his warning to a taxi-driver against fast driving, in -Chicago; his refusal to take her to a certain tough café she had always +Chicago; his refusal to take her to a certain tough café she had always wished to visit; these of course admitted the conventional interpretation--that it was of her he had been thinking; nevertheless, their culminative weight disturbed her. But something that occurred in a @@ -5852,9 +5817,9 @@ Anthony subsided helplessly. "We'll go somewhere else," he suggested. "I don't _want_ to go anywhere else. I'm tired of being trotted around -to a dozen cafés and not getting _one thing_ fit to eat." +to a dozen cafés and not getting _one thing_ fit to eat." -"When did we go around to a dozen cafés?" +"When did we go around to a dozen cafés?" "You'd _have_ to in _this_ town," insisted Gloria with ready sophistry. @@ -6063,7 +6028,7 @@ banana-peels, flung them valiantly in the direction of the Potomac. SENTIMENT -Simultaneously with the fall of Liège, Anthony and Gloria arrived in New +Simultaneously with the fall of Liège, Anthony and Gloria arrived in New York. In retrospect the six weeks seemed miraculously happy. They had found to a great extent, as most young couples find in some measure, that they possessed in common many fixed ideas and curiosities and odd @@ -6273,7 +6238,7 @@ evidently to show that the house would not immediately collapse, no matter how convincingly it gave that impression. They gazed through windows into interiors furnished either "commercially" with slab-like chairs and unyielding settees, or "home-like" with the melancholy -bric-à-brac of other summers--crossed tennis rackets, fit-form couches, +bric-à -brac of other summers--crossed tennis rackets, fit-form couches, and depressing Gibson girls. With a feeling of guilt they looked at a few really nice houses, aloof, dignified, and cool--at three hundred a month. They went away from Rye thanking the real estate agent very @@ -6530,7 +6495,7 @@ dangerous way." "What way?" -"It seems he had some naïve conception of a woman 'fit to be his wife,' +"It seems he had some naïve conception of a woman 'fit to be his wife,' a particular conception that I used to run into a lot and that always drove me wild. He demanded a girl who'd never been kissed and who liked to sew and sit home and pay tribute to his self-esteem. And I'll bet a @@ -6966,14 +6931,14 @@ appreciation made her happier in his company than in any one's else. She definitely enjoyed him--she loved him. So the summer began very much as had the one before. -There was, however, one radical change in ménage. The icy-hearted +There was, however, one radical change in ménage. The icy-hearted Scandinavian, whose austere cooking and sardonic manner of waiting on table had so depressed Gloria, gave way to an exceedingly efficient Japanese whose name was Tanalahaka, but who confessed that he heeded any summons which included the dissyllable "Tana." Tana was unusually small even for a Japanese, and displayed a somewhat -naïve conception of himself as a man of the world. On the day of his +naïve conception of himself as a man of the world. On the day of his arrival from "R. Gugimoniki, Japanese Reliable Employment Agency," he called Anthony into his room to see the treasures of his trunk. These included a large collection of Japanese post cards, which he was all for @@ -7002,7 +6967,7 @@ After three-quarters of an hour Anthony was released with the warm assurance that they would have other nice chats in which Tana would tell "how we do in my countree." -Such was Tana's garrulous première in the gray house--and he fulfilled +Such was Tana's garrulous première in the gray house--and he fulfilled its promise. Though he was conscientious and honorable, he was unquestionably a terrific bore. He seemed unable to control his tongue, sometimes continuing from paragraph to paragraph with a look akin to @@ -7069,7 +7034,7 @@ feet and made an elaborate bow to his hostess. In a minute he was following Gloria down a garden-walk between tall rose-bushes, her parasol brushing gently the June-blooming leaves. Most inconsiderate, he thought, as they reached the road. He felt with -injured naïvete that Gloria should not have interrupted such innocent +injured naïvete that Gloria should not have interrupted such innocent and harmless enjoyment. The whiskey had both soothed and clarified the restless things in his mind. It occurred to him that she had taken this same attitude several times before. Was he always to retreat from @@ -7086,7 +7051,7 @@ that seemed infinitely desirable. "Let's go over to see the Barneses," he said without looking at her. "I don't feel like going home." ---Mrs. Barnes, née Rachael Jerryl, had a summer place several miles from +--Mrs. Barnes, née Rachael Jerryl, had a summer place several miles from Redgate. "We went there day before yesterday," she answered shortly. @@ -7596,7 +7561,7 @@ of leisure." "Yes, you ought to do something," she admitted, being in an agreeable and loquacious humor. This was not the first of these discussions, but -as they usually developed Anthony in the rôle of protagonist, she had +as they usually developed Anthony in the rôle of protagonist, she had come to avoid them. "It's not that I have any moral compunctions about work," he continued, @@ -7709,7 +7674,7 @@ hear that Mary Pickford makes a million dollars annually." "You could, you know," said Bloeckman. "I think you'd film very well." -"Would you let me, Anthony? If I only play unsophisticated rôles?" +"Would you let me, Anthony? If I only play unsophisticated rôles?" As the conversation continued in stilted commas, Anthony wondered that to him and Bloeckman both this girl had once been the most stimulating, @@ -8034,7 +7999,7 @@ He remembered a time when in going on a "party" with his two best friends, he and Maury had invariably paid more than their share of the expenses. They would buy the tickets for the theatre or squabble between themselves for the dinner check. It had seemed fitting; Dick, with his -naïveté and his astonishing fund of information about himself, had been +naïveté and his astonishing fund of information about himself, had been a diverting, almost juvenile, figure--court jester to their royalty. But this was no longer true. It was Dick who always had money; it was Anthony who entertained within limitations--always excepting occasional @@ -8107,7 +8072,7 @@ trip that had to do with seeing some man in Wall Street (whom, incidentally, he failed to see), and Richard Caramel had been half persuaded, half tricked into joining them. They had condescended to a wet and fashionable wedding on Monday afternoon, and in the evening had -occurred the dénouement: Gloria, going beyond her accustomed limit of +occurred the dénouement: Gloria, going beyond her accustomed limit of four precisely timed cocktails, led them on as gay and joyous a bacchanal as they had ever known, disclosing an astonishing knowledge of ballet steps, and singing songs which she confessed had been taught her @@ -10716,9 +10681,9 @@ murmur casually "I guess I'll have just one high-ball myself--" Then they were off for two days--realizing on a wintry dawn that they had been the noisiest and most conspicuous members of the noisiest and -most conspicuous party at the Boul' Mich', or the Club Ramée, or at +most conspicuous party at the Boul' Mich', or the Club Ramée, or at other resorts much less particular about the hilarity of their -clientèle. They would find that they had, somehow, squandered eighty or +clientèle. They would find that they had, somehow, squandered eighty or ninety dollars, how, they never knew; they customarily attributed it to the general penury of the "friends" who had accompanied them. @@ -12377,9 +12342,9 @@ gasp, half a cry, Anthony hurried from the headquarters building. Outside, under the stars that dripped like silver tassels through the trees of the little grove, he stood motionless, hesitating. Had she meant to kill herself?--oh, the little fool! He was filled with bitter -hate toward her. In this dénouement he found it impossible to realize +hate toward her. In this dénouement he found it impossible to realize that he had ever begun such an entanglement, such a mess, a sordid -mélange of worry and pain. +mélange of worry and pain. He found himself walking slowly away, repeating over and over that it was futile to worry. He had best go back to his tent and sleep. He @@ -12547,7 +12512,7 @@ Dot's, that she had called out to him and made some sort of disturbance. He decided this just previous to the expiration of his sentence, when the cloud that oppressed him had lifted, leaving him in a deep, dispirited lethargy. As the conscious mediator, the monitor who kept -that fearsome ménage of horror, grew stronger, Anthony became physically +that fearsome ménage of horror, grew stronger, Anthony became physically weaker. He was scarcely able to get through the two days of toil, and when he was released, one rainy afternoon, and returned to his company, he reached his tent only to fall into a heavy doze, from which he awoke @@ -12706,7 +12671,7 @@ on the table. "Gloria!" -He ran into the bedroom, the bath. She was not there. A negligée of +He ran into the bedroom, the bath. She was not there. A negligée of robin's-egg blue laid out upon the bed diffused a faint perfume, illusive and familiar. On a chair were a pair of stockings and a street dress; an open powder box yawned upon the bureau. She must just @@ -14703,7 +14668,7 @@ miracle of the loaves and fishes. He admitted, under pressure, that he gave full credence to the stroll upon the water. Finishing her first drink, Gloria got herself a second. After slipping -on a negligée and making herself comfortable on the lounge, she became +on a negligée and making herself comfortable on the lounge, she became conscious that she was miserable and that the tears were rolling down her cheeks. She wondered if they were tears of self-pity, and tried resolutely not to cry, but this existence without hope, without @@ -15364,7 +15329,7 @@ obtain some money and get home before he became too sodden to find his way. Then, glancing over toward the Biltmore, he saw a man standing directly -under the overhead glow of the porte-cochère lamps beside a woman in an +under the overhead glow of the porte-cochère lamps beside a woman in an ermine coat. As Anthony watched, the couple moved forward and signalled to a taxi. Anthony perceived by the infallible identification that lurks in the walk of a friend that it was Maury Noble. @@ -15911,7 +15876,7 @@ Gloria and Dick came in at five and called his name. There was no answer--they went into the living room and found a chair with its back smashed lying in the doorway, and they noticed that all about the room there was a sort of disorder--the rugs had slid, the pictures and -bric-à-brac were upset upon the centre table. The air was sickly sweet +bric-à -brac were upset upon the centre table. The air was sickly sweet with cheap perfume. They found Anthony sitting in a patch of sunshine on the floor of his @@ -16017,374 +15982,4 @@ whispered to himself. up and I came through!" - - - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Beautiful and Damned, by F. 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