hobucken

Updated: May 13, 2025

"Ain't you a teeny bit lonesome away out here sometimes?" she asked. "I should think you'd be scared nights, all alone with your daughter." "Oh, no, I ain't," said Mrs. Hochmuller. "You see I take in washing dat's my business and it's a lot cheaper doing it out here dan in de city: where'd I get a drying-ground like dis in Hobucken? And den it's safer for Linda too; it geeps her outer de streets."

Edith Wharton - Bunner Sisters