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In here is a large room, with tables; rather more comfortable than these 'cuddy-holes, as you call them." "Only not nice," said Prudy. "O, Horace, if you should go once to an oyster saloon in Boston, you'd see the difference!" "The probability is, I've been in Boston saloons twice to your once, ma'am." Which was correct. She had been once, and he twice.
Sutton's return with the physician, she perceived that her niece had not awaited her coming in sentimental idleness. A thick woollen coverlet was wrapped about the prostrate figure, and Mabel, upon her knees on the dusty hearth, was applying the candle to a heap of waste paper and bits of board she had ferreted out in closets and cuddy-holes.
On little charcoal stoves stood coffee-pots; and there was a great clattering of plates and cups and saucers, which men were washing in little pans, and wiping on rather dark towels. "It strikes me I should enjoy going into one of those cuddy-holes and eating my dinner," said Horace. "I feel about starved." "You have a right to be hungry. It is two o'clock. How would you like some oysters?
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