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And yet deep down in my heart I enjoyed Thackeray more than I did Dickens, It was at the East Side branch of the Young Men's Hebrew Association that I obtained my books. It was a sort of university settlement in which educated men and women from up-town acted as "workers."
"Of course I tried to dress correctly for my up-town friends, when I was with them. But it was not they who made me careful, though they helped me to find a good tailor, when I decided that I must dress better." "Then it was the big law practice, eh? Must keep up appearances?" "I fancy my dressing would no more affect my practice, than does the furnishing of my office." "Then who is she?
To this desk, then, Peter betook himself the moment he had hung his gray surtout on its hook in the closet and disposed of his hat and umbrella. This was his up-town office, really, and here his letters awaited him.
The hotels, to be sure, were full of travelers, and the club-houses had more habitues than usual, and were more needed by the members whose families had gone into the country. Notwithstanding the silence and vacation aspect of up-town, the public conveyances were still thronged, and a census would have shown no such diminution of population as seemed.
And now, just as I am writing this, they are putting the finishing touches to a real woman's hotel up-town which will not be a failure, though it will hardly reach the same class which the remodellers of the Big Flat had in mind. However, we shall get there, too, now we know the way. Slowly, with many setbacks, we battled our way into the light.
At a fashionable up-town kennel he found exactly what he wanted, in the shape of a Pekingese a playful, pedigreed pocket dog scarcely larger than his two fists. It was a creature to excite the admiration of any woman; its family tree was taller than that of a Spanish nobleman, and its name was Ying.
It is emerging on every hand from comparative meanness and commonplace. At no point can one as yet say, "This prospect is finer than anything Europe can show." But everywhere there are purple patches of architectural splendour; and one can easily foresee the time when Fifth Avenue, the whole circuit of Central Park, and the up-town riverside region will be magnificent beyond compare.
As the messenger passed up the street, a smallish man who had come down-town on the same car with him, and had been reading a newspaper on the street for some little time, crossed over and accosted him. "Can you take a note for me?" "Where to?" "Up-town. Where are you going?" The boy showed his note. "Um hum! Well, my note will be right on your way." He scribbled a line.
Whom else had she for a beau in this multitude of strangers? So she laughed encouragingly. "All right. You're elected. Gimme the address." Skip wrote it on one of the business cards of the bakery. He added: "Another thing: I know a good expressman will rustle your trunk over from Where you boardin' at now?" Kedzie flushed. She could hardly tell him that she had boarded in a park up-town somewhere.
Some of the magazine writers in the district got hold of a copy, had a peep at Joe, heard of his fame, and then took copies up-town to the respectable editors and others, and spread a rumor of "that idiot, Joe Blaine, who runs an underground paper down on Tenth Street."
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