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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Doubleday, Page Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It 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 A Debtor To His Profession "the greater the place the greater the success " yes, and the greater the failure also. Anthony Dilke walked up and down in his office in New York. His head was bent, and from time to time he twisted the ends of his moustache into his mouth. " Hard luck!" he muttered. And hard luck indeed it was. Here was a man of promise, educated in the best medical schools, who now, at thirty, almost the term of average mortal life, found himself without a patient. He tried to keep up his mother's courage, but his own was ebbing fast. He found a certain grim amusement in his mother's warnings against overwork. Moreover, other troubles than those of poverty harassed Dilke's soul. To draw upon his mother's slender income would be impossible. To disappoint her assurance of his success, to have Pieria know that he had failed, would be gall and wormwood to his pride. In a great city one is merged in a crowd indifferent to individual success or failure; but not so in a town where everyone knows the affairs of everyone else, and where an ever-open eye and ear glean every detail of a fellow-townsman's career. To fail, Dilke felt, was to disappoint his friends and gratify his enemies. Failure was the one thing which he had never contemplated when he left Pieria, and he would not admit for an instant that he had shaken the dust of that town off his feet only to wear it on his head, with an admixture . of ashes as a s...