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The Von der Ruyslings still live in that little square about which so much has been said, and in which so little has been done. To-day you hear of Mr. Tilden's underground passage, and you hear Mr. Gould's elevated passage, and that about ends the noise in the world made by Gramercy Square. But once it was different.
All this is merely to convince you that the Von der Ruyslings were exactly the kind of poor aristocrats that turn down their noses at people who have money. Oh, well, I don't mean that; I mean people who have just money. One evening Pilkins went down to the red brick house in Gramercy Square, and made what he thought was a proposal to Alice v. d.
The Von der Ruyslings live there yet, and they received the first key ever made to Gramercy Park. You shall have no description of Alice v. d. R. Just call up in your mind the picture of your own Maggie or Vera or Beatrice, straighten her nose, soften her voice, tone her down and then tone her up, make her beautiful and unattainable and you have a faint dry-point etching of Alice.
"Old man," he said, "Miss Bedford will be much pleased to accept the hospitality of the lady you refer to." He formally introduced Mr. Pilkins to Miss Bedford. The girl looked at him sweetly and comfortably. "It's a lovely evening, Mr. Pilkins don't you think so?" she said slowly. Pilkins conducted them to the crumbly red brick house of the Von der Ruyslings.
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