The alternative . right. I hate a pink nose. You d think he owned the club, the way he treats it,said another. Tell me about him, said a new member—from theWest. Hes the most elegant, the most fastidiousgentleman Ive ever seen. An old family? Rather! The Van Pyckcs are as old as BowlingGreen. Some of em came over in the Ark — or was itthe Mayflower ? Buzzy came over in the Lusitania last year, venturedone of them. The self-appointed historian, a drawler with ancestors inTrinity churchyard, went on : Buckets of blue blood inem. The old man there is the last of his type. His son,Buzzy, — Boswort
The alternative . right. I hate a pink nose. You d think he owned the club, the way he treats it,said another. Tell me about him, said a new member—from theWest. Hes the most elegant, the most fastidiousgentleman Ive ever seen. An old family? Rather! The Van Pyckcs are as old as BowlingGreen. Some of em came over in the Ark — or was itthe Mayflower ? Buzzy came over in the Lusitania last year, venturedone of them. The self-appointed historian, a drawler with ancestors inTrinity churchyard, went on : Buckets of blue blood inem. The old man there is the last of his type. His son,Buzzy, — Bosworth Van Pycke, — hes the chap who gavethe much-talked of supper for Carmen the other night —hes really a different sort. Or would be, I should havesaid, if he had half a chance. Buzzy s a good fellow—aregular — You bet he is ! exclaimed two or three approvingly. The old man s got queer ideas about Buzzy. Heinsists on his being a regular gentleman. Nothing queer in that, interrupted the Westerner.[5] .. The Alternative Except that he thinks a fellow cant be a gentlemanunless hes a loafer. He brought Buzzy up with theunderstanding that it was nt necessary for him to beanything but a Van Pycke. The Van Pycke name, andall that sort of rot. It would nt be so bad if the old manhad anything to back it up with. He has nt a soumarkee. Thats the situation. For the last twenty yearshe s lived in the clubs, owing everybody and always beinga gentleman about it. He has a small interest in thebusiness of Rubenstein, Rosenthal & Meyer, — logicalbut not lineal descendants of the Van Pyckes who weregentlemen in dread of a rainy day,— but he doesnt getmuch out of it. Five or six thousand a year, I d Buzzys maternal grandfather died, he left some-thing in trust for the boy. Fixed it in such a way that heis nt to have the principal until he s fifty. By that timethe old man over there will have passed in his the point ? It was done to keep the amiable son-in-law
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