The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life

A BRIEF GLIMPSE OF MR. AUGUSTUS RICHARDS

And as Miss Flora Henderson represented in every way the ideal of Mr. Augustus Richards, so did he represent hers.  He had the physical beauty of Miles Dawson, and was quite the equal of the latter in the matter of wealth.  So many horses he had not, but he owned a sufficient number of them.  He was not horsemad, nor did he yawn over Shelley or despise aesthetic pleasures.  In truth, in the pursuit of aesthetic delights he was as eager as Henry Webster.  He was in all things the sort of man to whom our heroine of Boston would have been willing to intrust her hand and her heart.