Word: ruysdyck
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...delight of Manhattan street-cleaners thwarts the destiny of Mr. Walker. In Honduras there is a final "spectacle"-a firing squad . . . the limp body of the destiny-man ... a clatter of hoofs . . . the sparing of Peter, who returns to Manhattan, to the waiting arms of Lydia van Ruysdyck. They marry. He leaves for the Civil War. Says Lydia,: "I think des- tiny is just another word for life. ..." The author has handled the personages of 1855-60 with a casual ease that his own creations lack. In addition to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Walker, it is Journalist Horace Greeley, Shipowner "Liveoak...
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