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Updated: June 16, 2025
But the labors of the chorus, and even of the sextette, shrank very much in proportion to the work of the principals. Nearly all the changes that were made were in the direction of compressing the chorus and giving the principals more room. She wakened automatically at half past seven and was down-town by half past eight, to do whatever shopping the work of the previous day revealed the need of.
A lady visitor at the hospital was kind, and found her a place where she did housework; but she was so weak they couldn't keep her. Then she got a job as waitress in a down-town lunch-room, but one day she fainted while she was handing a dish, and that evening when they paid her they told her she needn't come again. Hawkins, and he stopped and asked me what the trouble was.
Yorke dreamed, and, a trifle anxious over Alice's persistent reference to the charms of Spring woods and a Southern climate, after a week or two of driving down-town and eager choosing of hats and wearying fitting of dresses, started off with the girl on the yacht of Mr. Lancaster, a wealthy, dignified, and cultivated friend of her husband's.
It was all we could do from breaking in and interfering, especially when Sam went off his feed and began to throw out ugly talk about going to the Philippines or some place where fever can be gotten cheap. But one morning Sam came down-town, and the first man who saw his face called up his wife and told her the good news. Talk about extra editions for distributing news!
It was partly to escape from this question that he hurried down-town, and decided to spend with the Leightons the hour remaining on his hands before it was time to go to the reception for which he was dressed. It seemed to him important that he should see Alma Leighton. After all, it was her charm that was most abiding with him; perhaps it was to be final.
However negligible her mother seemed from down-town, she loomed gigantic as Una approached their flat and assured herself that she was glad to be returning to the dear one. The flat was on the fifth floor. It was a dizzying climb particularly on this hot afternoon. §
"My daddy's mad at me," she observed dispassionately. "Why? But I want to know just why it's impossible for an American to be gracefully idle" his words gathered conviction "it astonishes me. It it I don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work, certainly not altruistic work."
Get out, and leave Miss Bartlett alone in the future." Fowle needed no second bidding. "As for me?" inquired Carshaw, with arched eyebrows. "May I drop you in Madison Avenue?" said Clancy. Once the police car was speeding down-town he grew chatty. "Wish I had seen you trimming Fowle," he said pleasantly. "I've a notion he had a finger in the pie of Winifred Bartlett's dismissal." "It may be."
"Why, I shall be disguised too, you know." "Oh, what delicious nonsense you do talk! Sit down here and tell me what you are going to wear." She tried to pull him back to the sofa. "What character shall you go in?" "No, no," he said, resisting the gentle traction. "I can't; I have urgent business down-town." "Oh! Business in Florence!"
There's a big crowd in the station at Reuton. They're waiting for you, sir; they've heard you're on this train. This lying newspaper, Mr. Cargan, it's been telling tales I guess you know about that. There's a big mob. You better get off here, sir, and go down-town on a car." If the mighty Cargan had looked limp and beaten for a moment he looked that way no more.
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