forever-and-ever-amen

Updated: May 8, 2025

Think of her living on and on in that deadly proper little hotel chuck full of primped and crimped and proud poor relations who don't dare draw a single full-sized breath without first considering whether such a daring act might not disturb the social standing of somebody over on Fifth Avenue or down here on Washington Square Oh, I say, mother, five more years of that life and Olivetta will be choked dessicated salted away a regular forever-and-ever-amen old maid.

Leroy Scott - No. 13 Washington Square