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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Hey, country! Have your mud splashers shined? Only a nickel." "I'll shine your nose with my fist, if you don't let me alone," said Ralph, with so fierce a scowl that the boy edged away. The mountain lad, though but half comprehending the bootblack's meaning, was aware that he was being made game of.
I had now reached the second block on the south side of the street, that which contained the vacant lots and the overshadowing trees, beneath which the bootblack's stand was placed by day; and here again I paused and listened, in the hope that in the quiet about me I might hear and recognise Lossing's slow, even step. But no step was heard, and I moved on.
He stopped to chuckle over a lithograph of the Parthenon at the window of a Greek bootblack's stand. Stars steamer temples, all these were his. He owned them now. He was free. Lee Theresa sat waiting for him in the basement livingroom till ten-thirty while he was flirting with trainboards at the Grand Central. Then she went to bed, and, though he knew it not, that prince of wealthy suitors, Mr.
We exchanged greetings at the entrance, and I had walked some distance before it occurred to me to wonder how it came about that Monsieur Voisin, whom I had last seen at the bootblack's stand, two blocks north and east, happened to be approaching Miss Jenrys' residence from the south.
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