blackballed

Updated: May 7, 2025

The next day Julian was blackballed at a philanthropic club at which he had allowed himself to be proposed merely from a sense of civic duty. Over the incident I know Anne wept. I heard her tears. "Oh, if I could have spared him that!" she said. My eyes were cold, but those of Mr. Granger, who came in while her eyelids were still red, were full of fire.

Various - O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920