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When I see these children growing up thus into fair men and women with such sur-roundings, I know that every babe is born a child of God, not of the devil." They climbed a dark stairway and knocked at the back door of a double-decker tenement.
But it was inconceivable to me that it had discovered the Nautilus at such a distance, still less that it knew what this underwater machine really was. Soon the Canadian announced that the craft was a big battleship, a double-decker ironclad complete with ram. Dark, dense smoke burst from its two funnels. Its furled sails merged with the lines of its yardarms.
Indeed, in a few moments the Nautilus had submerged some meters below the surface of the waves. I understood this maneuver. It was too late to take action. The Nautilus wasn't going to strike the double-decker where it was clad in impenetrable iron armor, but below its waterline, where the metal carapace no longer protected its planking.
Packing-box tenement built for revenue only. 5. The limit; the air shaft first concession to tenant. 6. The double-decker, where the civic conscience began to stir in 1879. 7. Evolution of double-decker up to date. 8. 3 two-room apartments 3 three-room apartments 2 four-room apartments As for the rents, he will put them as high as he can, no doubt. They were too high always, for what they bought.
If the house was a double-decker, as Baranof Castle at Sitka, powder was stored in the cellar. Counting-rooms, mess room, and fur stores occupied the first floor. Sleeping quarters were upstairs, and, above all, a powerful light hung in the cupola, to guide ships into port at night.
The air shaft that was a narrow slit between towering walls has become a "court," a yard big enough for children to run in. Thirty per cent of the tenement-house lot must be open to the sun. The double-decker has had its day, and it is over. A man may still build a tenement on a twenty-five-foot lot if he so chooses, but he can hardly pack four families on each floor of it and keep within the law.
When that latter has been grasped so by the tenant that a little extra brass and plate-glass does not tempt him over into the enemy's camp, the usurious rents may yet follow the double-decker, as they have clung to it in the past.
We talked little, being too keyed up. Ned Land was all for jumping overboard. I forced him to wait. As I saw it, the Nautilus would attack the double-decker on the surface of the waves, and then it would be not only possible but easy to escape. At three o'clock in the morning, full of uneasiness, I climbed onto the platform. Captain Nemo hadn't left it.
'He's the man who was in the trap with Macdougal of Boobyalla the other day in Swanston Street. 'The swell in the choker and double-decker? 'Yes. For some reason his face impressed me. I couldn't mistake it. 'Didn't notice it; but if he's own brother to Governor Latrobe himself, I'll take my affie he's a lag.
"A ferryboat!" shrieked Grace. "Oh, Hans!" "I mean von of dem double-decker ferrypoats vot runs from New York to Chersey City dem kind vot has got blate-glass vinders und looking-glasses der sthairs on," explained the German cadet. "Da vos peauties, too." "If we don't enjoy this trip it will be our fault," said Fred.
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