The Half-Smart Set: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It was all so informal, so quiet, that Christopher found himself the next moment shaking hands with a gentle-faced, grey-haired lady in silver-coloured silk and white lace, before be quite realised that he was not only in the presence of, but actually surrounded on all sides by, members of the half-smart set of which he had spoken so contemptuously.

It was some moments before he recovered from the sort of bewilderment into which the introduction threw him. In the meantime he was only half-con scious that he was talking the usual nonsense to Mrs. Goldsmith and to her husband, who was absolutely like almost every other prosperous middle-aged City man that Christopher had ever met.

From his slightly bald head, his well-trimmed small beard and grey moustache, his rotund figure and plump hands, to his easy grey suit and Homburg straw hat, there was no salient feature about him whatever. He liked the noise and the fun, the chatter and the laughter, of the young people about him. But beyond the money article in the morning paper and a fixed idea that the Radicals were sending the country to the devil, he had no Opinions or interests worth mentioning.

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