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There was at that time, as I well knew, no state apartment in the city which in sheer splendor could for a moment compare with this secret abode of a woman practically unknown. Here certainly was European luxury transferred to our shores. This in simple Washington, with its vast white unfinished capitol, its piecemeal miles of mixed residences, boarding-houses, hotels, restaurants, and hovels!
The manners and customs of bourgeois boarding-houses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he was about to fall back into the fatal irresolution of persons without will, when the following advertisement met his eye: "To Let. A small lodging for seventy francs a month; suitable for an ecclesiastic. A quiet tenant desired.
Young women need to be reminded of this. They are in peril. Exposure lines the paths of those who pass from the factory, or from the workshop, to their little rooms and cheap boarding-houses. You see it in the leering look of depraved men, and in the atmosphere of crime that contaminates their shops. They show it by their themes of conversation.
The chief of a certain department was in ill health and wanted a deputy. It secures him from conscription, requires no oath, and pays a good salary. A mountain seemed lifted off my heart. Thursday, Sept. 18. Boarding-houses have all been broken up, and the army has occupied the few houses that were for rent. To-day H. secured a vacant room for two weeks in the only boarding-house.
"I shall not take offence at your severity of tone. I have but one thought now. Good morning!" He left the house, like one in a dream. Alice, homeless in the streets this bitter day, seeking for a home in poverty-stricken boarding-houses, asking for work from tailors or milliners, exposed to jeers, coarse compliments, and even to utter want! the thought was agony.
You wouldn't have me tell you to stay at my hotel and to compromise myself before all these people?" "These people! Those boarding-houses are driving me mad! That Miss Forman!" "I thought you liked her. You said she is good, 'a simple, kind person, without pretensions. And that is enough, according to yesterday's creed. Do you recant all this?"
"Stanton said that the usual live-stock accompaniment of operators' boarding-houses was absent; he thought the intense cold had caused them to hibernate. Stanton, when I was working in Cincinnati, left his position and went out on the Union Pacific to work at Julesburg, which was a cattle town at that time and very tough. I remember seeing him off on the train, never expecting to see him again.
"I kin get better board at Green Mountain Mills for three dollars a week, and folks are darned glad to accommodate you for that price. These chaps seem to think and act as if we were made of money." "I wish some of your Green Mountain Mills boarding-houses were here," said Tom. "I could save plenty of money then." "Well, gentlemen, do you want to stay here?" inquired the landlord.
Meet me in my study at nine this evening, and I will talk to you. When I came here I hardly hoped to find saints, but I did expect to find gentlemen. And I have not been disappointed." He addressed the others. "You will return to your boarding-houses, and quietly, if you please." The immediate and most noticeable effect of Lovell's expulsion was the loss of the next House match.
Drifts are opened in its coal seams, to which iron tracks shoot away from the main line; in the woods is seen the gleam of the engineer's level, is heard the rattle of heavily-laden wagons on the newly-made roads; tents are pitched, uncouth shanties have sprung up, great stables, boarding-houses, stores, workshops; the miner, the blacksmith, the mason, the carpenter have arrived; households have been set up in temporary barracks, children are already there who need a school, women who must have a church and society; the stagnation has given place to excitement, money has flowed in, and everywhere are the hum of industry and the swish of the goad of American life.
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