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He continued to build, and dispose of handsome dwellings, until a different class of citizens entirely, was attracted to that quarter of the town, among them, one of the oldest and most respectable and wealthy citizens, an ex-Alderman.
Seriously speaking, did you ever see a countenance so expressive of the most hopeless extreme of heavy dulness, or behold a form so strangely put together? He is no great speaker: but when he does address the House, the effect is absolutely irresistible. The small gentleman with the sharp nose, who has just saluted him, is a Member of Parliament, an ex-Alderman, and a sort of amateur fireman.
The patronizing fussiness of the ex-alderman struck a keen sense of the ridiculous, which was strong in his character. "If you insist," he said. "But you are too generous." "Not at all, not at all. When Alderman Stacy does a thing, he does it handsomely. This way, this way!" Hepworth seated himself in the carriage where Mrs.
A lesson in mankind and the making had been coming to Garrison, and in that short walk down Broadway he appreciated it to the uttermost. "Think I had the mange or the plague," he mused grimly, as a plethoric ex-alderman passed and absent-mindedly forgot to return his bow an alderman who had been tipped by Garrison in his palmy days to a small fortune.
The babel of sound continued to grow worse in spite of the rain, and swelled louder and louder, till at last the Jackson roughs, headed by an ex-alderman, made a rush for the committee room where their opponents were assembled. Some of them were armed with clubs, and others with knives, which they brandished fiercely as they burst into the room.
Lady Clara was in her own room scolding, persuading, and comforting Caroline, when a card was brought to her, and she read, with astonishment, the name of "Matthew Stacy, Esq., Ex-Alderman, New York." "Who is this person?" she inquired. "Haven't the least hidea, my lady; he asked for yer leddyship, and would, on no account, see any one else, yer leddyship." "Where is he now?"
He was standing on the steps at Morley's, with a white vest on and his heavy chain glittering over it like a golden rivulet. "What! No! yes! On my soul I believe it is Miss Maggie!" cried the ex-alderman, stepping forward and reaching out his hand. "Miss Casey, I am in ecstasies of of in short, I am glad to see you."
"Down the level road they drove at a good pace toward the King's Highway, which crosses the boulevard about two and a half miles from the Park, and just north of John Kelly's hospitable road house. A short distance before this point was reached ex-Alderman Ruggles of Brooklyn came bowling along at a 2.40 gait, and he gave the young man who was driving Mrs.
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