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In the evening after supper her father and mother left her and her brother August in charge, and took their usual stroll for exercise and for the profound delight of a look at their flat-houses those reminders of many years of toil and thrift. They had spent their youth, she as cook, he as helper, in one of New York's earliest delicatessen shops.
"It is a great condescension for me. Working people ugh!" As he strolled up town he was spending in fancy the income from at least two, perhaps all three, flat-houses "The shop's enough for the old people and that dumb ass of a brother. I'll elevate the family. Yes, I think I'll run away with Hilda to-morrow that's the safest plan." Otto had guessed close to the truth about Feuerstein's affairs.
From that time on I devoted myself to the study of New York real estate and watched for opportunities to make similar investments. In spite of two or three speculations which did not turn out well, I have been remarkably successful. Today I am the owner and part-owner of several flat-houses.
"I'd I'd hate to have to go away to an orphan's home now," she whispered and there were tears in her blue eyes. He looked down at her and coughed before he answered. "No, I haven't heard anything." "If you see him today will you tell him of that friendly house I was telling you about? That there are flat-houses in Waloo where children can live?
"Her father has a delicatessen in Avenue A. He's very rich owns three flat-houses. They must bring him in at least ten thousand net, not to speak of what he makes in the store. They're fine people, those Brauners; none nicer anywhere." "A beautiful creature," said Feuerstein, who was feeling like a prince who, for reasons of sordid necessity, had condescended to a party in Fifth Avenue.
Hartley pressed the "McComus" button. The door latch clicked spasmodically now hospitably, now doubtfully, as though in anxiety whether it might be admitting friends or duns. Hartley entered and began to climb the stairs after the manner of those who seek their friends in city flat-houses which is the manner of a boy who climbs an apple-tree, stopping when he comes upon what he wants.
The second is composed of men who gamble to retrieve their losses, or those who try to deceive and lull their grief through the exciting diversions that pervade these seductive "hells." The Last Ingenious Scheme to Fool the Police Flat-Houses Turned into Gambling Houses "Stud-Horse Poker," and "Hide the Heart."
But WERE such apparitions unwonted on Selden's stairs? Miss Bart was not familiar with the moral code of bachelors' flat-houses, and her colour rose again as it occurred to her that the woman's persistent gaze implied a groping among past associations. But she put aside the thought with a smile at her own fears, and hastened downward, wondering if she should find a cab short of Fifth Avenue.
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