...too coarse a texture ever to have been purchased from the shelves of a fashionable city mechanic. Yet that same form had been arrayed in richer apparel,...been a wealthy merchant in the city of New York ; but to whom misfortune in business had suddenly befallen, and had stripped him of all his fortune. While...

...failure had done to his father. In his story "The Rifle" he gave a brief but revealing description of "a gentleman who had formerly been a wealthy merchant in the city of New York; but whom misfortune had suddenly befallen, and stripped of all his possessions. While surrounded by affluence, he had been...