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"It'll be less in a little while. Models don't last. The work's too hard." "I can see that." "And anyhow it means tenement house." "Yes. Tenement house." "Well what then? What's your plan?" "I haven't any." "Haven't a plan yet want to get on! Is that good sense? Did ever anybody get anywhere without a plan?" "I'm willing to work. I'm going to work. I am working." "Work, of course.
She never argued with him when she wished to carry her point. She now said: "It seems to me that, in our own interest, we ought to do what we can to make the poor live better. As you say, it's positively dangerous to go about in the tenement part of town and those people are always coming among us.
Ex-missionary Dawson passed through the station; and I was unfortunate in missing the former. 'Effuenta House' is a long narrow tenement of bamboo and thatch, divided into six or seven rooms, and built upon a platform of stone and swish raised seven feet off the ground. All the chambers open upon a broad verandah, which shades the platform.
A bone in a boy's mind for him to gnaw and worry, corrects the vagrancies and promotes the healthy activities, whether there be marrow in it or not. Supposing it furnishes only dramatic entertainment in that usually vacant tenement, or powder-shell, it will be of service.
But on the contrary he teaches the universality of law, in this life and in all lives. For Hindus of most schools of thought, metempsychosis means the doctrine that the immortal soul passes from one bodily tenement to another, and is reborn again and again: karma is the law which determines the occurrence and the character of these births.
He felt dismayed at his unthinking precipitation, he had, in his fancy, actually associated her, so full of radiant health and beauty, with what was probably a mouldering corpse in that hermetically sealed tenement of stone! This idea was unpleasant, and jarred upon his feelings. Surely she, that golden-haired nymph of the Fjord, had nothing to do with death!
On the corner of Anthony street and the Points, in New-York, there stands, like a grim savage, the house of the Nine Nations, a dingy wooden tenement, that for twenty years has threatened to tumble away from its more upright neighbor, and before which the stranger wayfarer is seen to stop and contemplate.
Throughout the day the babel of crowded tenement strife; the crying of fishwives and fagot-venders in the court; the striking of the hours; the boom of the time gun and sweet clamor of music bells; the failing of the light and the soaring note of the bugle he watched motionless beside his master. Very late at night shuffling footsteps came up the stairs.
They passed out of the little tenement house they inhabited into the dark cold street, and the door closed with a loud bang behind them, shut to by the angry wind. The rain began to fall more heavily, and the small slight figure of the waif and stray he had befriended seemed to the Cardinal to look more lonely and piteous than ever in the driving fog and darkness.
Her little sister had been killed in a massacre. Her parents had gone in one direction, and she and her two other sisters had fled in another to America. Here in New York she lived in a tenement, sharing a room with two other girls, and, besides working in the shirt-waist factory, did her own washing, made her own waists, and went to night school.
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