A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete

Project Gutenberg's A Hazard of New Fortunes, by William Dean HowellsThis 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 atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: A Hazard of New FortunesAuthor: William Dean HowellsRelease Date: September 1, 2006 [EBook #4600]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES ***Produced by David WidgerA HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNESBy William Dean HowellsBIBLIOGRAPHICALThe following story was the first fruit of my New York life when I began to live it after my quarter of a century in Cambridgeand Boston, ending in 1889; and I used my own transition to the commercial metropolis in framing the experience whichwas wholly that of my supposititious literary adventurer. He was a character whom, with his wife, I have employed in somesix or eight other stories, and whom I made as much the hero and heroine of 'Their Wedding Journey' as the slight fablewould bear. In venturing out of my adoptive New England, where I had found myself at home with many imaginary friends,I found it natural to ask the company of these familiar acquaintances, but their company was not to be had at once for theasking. When I began speaking of them as Basil and Isabel, in the fashion of 'Their Wedding Journey,' they would notrespond with the effect of early middle age ...