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Excerpt from The Auction Block: A Novel of New York Life Isn't that just my luck? And me a Democrat for twenty years. There's nothing in politics, Jimmy. His son James smiled crookedly, with a languid tolerance bespeaking amusement and contempt. James prided him self upon his forbearance, and it was rarely indeed that he betrayed more than a hint of the superiority which he felt toward his parent. Politics is all right, provided you're a good picker, he said, with all the assurance of twenty-two, but you fell off the wrong side of the fence, and you're sore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.