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That worthy, upon receipt of a considerable benefaction, expressed himself ready to serve the new tenant to the best of his ability. "Do you know when Mr. Perkins left the building?" "Yes, sir. This morning, early." "This morning! Sure it wasn't yesterday?" "Am I sure? Didn't I help him to the street-car and hand him his little package? That sick he was he couldn't hardly walk alone."
If they leave the farm for the cities, they will become street-car drivers, porters, janitors, day labourers. The time has passed when a country boy without education can go to the city, make a hit, and become President of the United States. Instead of that they are forced to accept the lowest society the city affords. They are the victims of its vices. "'Now listen to me.
"Well, to make a long story short, it so chanced that he happened along our street every night after that, and always found me, quite by chance, sitting out on the steps, and so he stopped for a chat. And now comes the most wonderful part of the affair. He is no real street-car conductor at all.
Will a central bank of issue, or some institution like it, establish the business of the country on a basis less likely to be disturbed by panics? Will a competing street-car line make for better and cheaper transportation in the city? In all such questions the only grounds for decision are practical, and founded in the prosperity and the convenience of the people who have the decision.
When he sees an interesting person in a street-car, he will wonder where that person has come from and whither he is going, what he has just done and what he is about to do; he will look before and after, and pine for what is not.
All the way home in the street-car he stared at the drawing, holding first one eye shut and then the other. But, like the coroner, he got nowhere. He folded the paper and put it in his note-book. "None the less, Mrs.
If she rides on a street-car she fully expects that the conductor will regard her admiringly and that the motorman will turn his head after her. She doesn't expect to marry either of these gentlemen; she does not particularly require their flattering attentions.... Gloria did not expect to marry Archie or Teddy or Mr.
She appealed to Nelly Croubel: "I'll bet he was a cool one. Don't you think he was, Nelly?" "I'm sure he was." Nelly's voice was like a flute. Mr. He tried to think of something modest yet striking to say, while Tom was arguing with Miss Mary Proudfoot, the respectable spinster, about the ethics of giving away street-car transfers. As they finished their floating custard Mr.
The thing she had been holding in her hands slipped to the floor. He stooped and picked it up stared at it with a sort of half awakened recognition. "I f found it," she explained, "among some old things Portia sent over when she moved. Do you know what it is? It's one of the note-books that got wet that first night when we were put off the street-car. And and, Roddy, look!"
Me number's 415" He was about handing me a greasy bit of paper, when I slammed the door in his face and retired to my own room to meditate on the strange accent and peculiar calling of this descendant of the "fine old French settler." My next choice, however, proved a fortunate one. I got into a street-car one evening late in the month of March.
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