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So far 's I can make out, there's a gurt wide street runnin' right down to the shore yonder, just in a line wi' thicky big white house atop of the hill; and if we was anchored in line wi' thicky street, our shot 'd sweep un from end to end and, unless I be greatly mistaken, would play havoc wi' some of they big buildin's, the tops of which you can see over t'other houses, and which I thinks may be Gov'ment buildin's of some sort ay, and I be right, too, for, look 'e there, dashed if they ain't hoistin' the Spanish flag upon the biggest of 'em now."
And here and there, jest where they wuz needed, to look the best, wuz statutes and banners and the most gorgeous fountain that ever dripped water. Then the broad flights of snowy marble steps risin' from the water to the green flowery terraces, and then above them the magnificent white wonders of the different buildin's.
Whether they have got any bigger ones in Mars, or Jupiter, or Saturn, I don't know; but I will say this if they have, and the Marites, and Jupiterians, and Satens, are made up as we be, and calculate to go through the buildin's, I am sorry for their legs.
And on, and on, we follered it dilligently; till for the land's sake! if it didn't lead us to another one of them openwork buildin's, fixed off beautiful, and we could see inside 2 big wells like, with acres of floor seemin'ly on each side of 'em, and crowds of folks a walkin' about and settin' at little tables and most all of 'em a drinkin'.
The deathy stillness of a town, and the barred windows, and shut shops, and empty streets, and great long lines of big brick buildin's look melancholy. It seems as if life had ceased tickin', but there hadn't been time for decay to take hold on there; as if day had broke, but man slept. I can't describe exactly what I mean, but I always feel kinder gloomy and wamblecropt there.
"But these men carry arquebuses and wear a livery. And these temples to what false gods are they set up?" "False gods!" exclaimed Rebecca. "Bless your simple heart, those ain't temples. They're jest the buildin's where the men hev their offices." Elizabeth sat in mute contemplation, vainly seeking to realize it all.
She had pondered over it day and night, she said, pondered over it, and prayed over it. And, come to think it over, I don't know as it wus so curius after all, when I thought how Paul had ruined himself, and broke her heart, and how her money wus bein' used now to keep grog-shops open, four of her buildin's rented to liquor-dealers, and she couldn't help herself.
"Um!... Have to be right of way, or jest land for railroad yards, or to build railroad buildin's on?" "Any land necessary to a railroad." "Um!... Who says if it's necessary?" "The courts." "How'd you git at it?" "Start what are called condemnation proceedings." "All right, Johnnie, start me some." "Against whom, and for what, Mr. Baines?"
An' I take the whole outfit an' start Wednesday of next week haulin' lumber for the buildin's, an' bricks for the kilns, an' all the rest. An' when they're ready for the clay I 'm the boy that'll give it to them. "But I ain't told you the best yet. I couldn't get the switch right away from Kenwood to Lawndale, and while I waited I went over my figures again.
The tall buildin's we looked at, one of 'em 260 feet high, 20 storys elevators that carry 40,000 passengers and a garden on the roof, a garden 260 feet in the air, where you can set and talk and eat nut-cakes, and fried oysters the idee! And then the block that Mr. Bolster said wuz the largest business block in the world, it accomidated 6000 people.
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