The morning of August eighteenth, 190-, was a memorable one to me. For two months I had had a run of bad luck. During that time I had failed to score in at least three affairs of unusual importance, and the result was a decided loss in repute as well as great financial embarrassment. As I had a mother and two sisters to support and knew but one way to do it, I was in a state of profound discouragement. This was before I took up the morning papers. After I had opened and read them, not a man in New York could boast of higher hopes or greater confidence in his power to rise by one bold stroke from threatened bankruptcy to immediate independence. The paragraph which had occasioned this amazing change must have passed under the eyes of many of you. It created a wide-spread excitement at the time and raised in more than one breast the hope of speedy fortune. It was attached to, or rather introduced, the most startling feature of the week, and it ran thus:

メディア	書籍 Paperback Book (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本)
リリース済み	2007年12月1日
ISBN13	9781421896137
出版社	1st World Library - Literary Society
ページ数	264
寸法	140 × 216 × 15 mm · 340 g
言語	英語
寄稿者	1stworld Library