By Louis Auchincloss
An insider's examine a secretive international at the back of the closed doorways of a renowned ny legislations enterprise. via interwoven stories of relations, consumers, and such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and the Astors, additionally an intimate portrait of a poignant friendship among males the yankee grasp Louis Auchincloss bargains an intimate glance at the back of the closed doorways of a favourite big apple legislation firm.Nearing the top of his days, Adrian Suydam, part the partnership of the legislation enterprise of Suydam & Saunders, displays on his lifelong friendship and enterprise dating with Ernest Saunders, a sad and intricate guy incapable of thoroughly loving someone. during this perceptive novel, set opposed to the backdrop of outdated big apple, Auchincloss exposes the enticements and vicissitudes that thrust his characters towards unexpected fates.Drawing on his profession as a wills-and-trusts lawyer, Auchincloss elegantly brings to existence a stratum of society that few have obvious. via interwoven stories of family, consumers, and such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and the Astors, readers get an insider’s examine a secretive global. Touching, comical, and erudite, final of the outdated defend is either a revealing heritage of a high-profile legislation enterprise and an intimate portrait of a poignant friendship among males
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ISBN: 978-0-547-15275-2 1. Lawyers—Fiction. 2. Law firms—Fiction. 3. Practice of law—Fiction. 4. Law partnership—Fiction. 5. Male friendship—Fiction. 6. )—Fiction. I. Title. 1012 TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER, Lily Sloane Auchincloss 1 THE DEATH OF MY famous law partner, Ernest Saunders, my lifelong friend and exact contemporary, two years ago, in 1942, at the age of eighty-four, has left me the prey, not only of a peculiar loneliness, the perverse kind that waits on one who is still surrounded by a persistently friendly world, but also the kind that is flooded by the ungovernable tide of mixed reminiscence that inundates the emptiness of old age.
Drinking port with me one night after my mother and sister had left the dining room, he offered this unconventional consolation to my supposed misfortune. "Let me tell you something, Adrian. And you don't have to say a word in response. I have learned in my life that it is a sacred principle in most people to believe that their feelings of love and grief are a good deal deeper than they actually are. You don't have to be ashamed at the speed with which you may recover from the tender hold that Miss Lowry had over you.
Call me what you will. I cannot, at any rate, miss the opportunity of giving a small picture of Theodore at his best. He was indisputably a great man, but he was not without faults. He took criticism badly: there were few of his male friends with whom he did not quarrel—sometimes permanently—at one point or another in his lifetime. I have always attributed his splitting his party in the Bull Moose campaign as much to wounded ego as to dislike of Taft. And he might have split with me had I told him so.
