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I daresay the owners of them find a dismal kind of satisfaction in considering the depressing influence their dreary piles of bricks-and-mortar must exercise on the minds of strangers; may be a sort of compensation for being obliged to live in such a gaol of a place."
A few minutes later I was inquiring my way to a house which it took me another twenty or twenty-five to find. A Secret Service This house also was on the river, but it was very small bricks-and-mortar compared with the other two.
The conservation of historic buildings, whenever possible, the planting of trees along our streets, the laying out of gardens, the insistence upon a proportional amount of air and open space to new buildings would go a long way towards making our bricks-and-mortar joyless wildernesses into something human and habitable.
'I would not sell my home, she reflected, 'and here is the consequence of refusal. She wished she had yielded and she could perceive how unimportant, comparatively, bricks-and-mortar might be but she did not blame herself for not having yielded. She merely regretted her sensitive obstinacy as a misfortune for both of them.
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