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第1章 竹叶海之死，厉凡的反击！

　　"I'll not have anything to do with you," said Carrie. "I want toget off this train. Where are we going?"

　　"Carrie," he said, getting up once and coming over to her, "areyou going to stay with me from now on?"

　　When Minnie found the note next morning, after a night of mingledwonder and anxiety, which was not exactly touched by yearning,sorrow, or love, she exclaimed: "Well, what do you think ofthat?"

　　"Let's get in," said Carrie.

　　Hurstwood paid some little attention to this. Somehow, he felt alittle superior to these two--a little better off. To him thesewere ignorant and commonplace, poor sheep in a driver's hand.

　　It is curious to note how quickly a profession absorbs one.Carrie became wise in theatrical lore, hearing the gossip oflittle Lola. She learned what the theatrical papers were, whichones published items about actresses and the like. She began toread the newspaper notices, not only of the opera in which shehad so small a part, but of others. Gradually the desire fornotice took hold of her. She longed to be renowned like others,and read with avidity all the complimentary or critical commentsmade concerning others high in her profession. The showy worldin which her interest lay completely absorbed her.

　　"Nothing," she answered, a little drearily.

　　It got to where Hurstwood had seventy-five dollars up. The otherman really became serious. Perhaps this individual (Hurstwood)really did have a stiff hand.

　　"I did go part of the way, but I left the Party a mile down theroad."