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Updated: May 17, 2025
The basement's big, unused front room must be finished in durable burlaps and grass matting for Uncle Chester; there must be a bath upstairs; two rooms for Aunt May and the girls, one for Grandma, one for Julia and little Anna. So much for externals. But what of changing the tenants to suit the house? Would time and patience ever transform Mrs. Torney into a busy, useful woman?
And above it all, insistent as a bugle note, reaching the basement's breadth, from hardware to candy, from human hair to white goods, the tinny voice of the piano gay, rollicking.
"A thimbleful o' brandy might do the Admiral good," suggested the prisoner. "Brandy?" cried Lord Rattley. "The air reeks of brandy! Where the ?" "The basement's swimmin' with it, m' lord." The fellow touched his hat. "Two casks stove by the edge o' the table. I felt around the staves, an' counted six others, hale an' tight.
"Well, if you ever need a home, the basement's vacant and there ain't a better basement in Our Square." Annie Oombrella began to cry quietly, and Schepstein went on about his business.
It was that third hole, burned in the floor; for there it opened, shoulder wide, almost under their startled faces, free to the basement's floor and actually with the rough ladder yet standing in it which had been used in putting out the fire. That such luck could last a night was too much to hope. Yet it lasted. The songs were hushed. The room whence they had come was without an audible stir.
And above it all, insistent as a bugle-note, reaching the basement's breadth, from hardware to candy, from human hair to white goods, the tinny voice of the piano gay, rollicking.
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