idealia

Updated: May 12, 2025

Half an hour later he threaded his way like a Brazilian orchid-hunter through the palm forest in the tiled entrance hall of the "Idealia" apartment-house. One day the christeners of apartment-houses and the cognominators of sleeping-cars will meet, and there will be some jealous and sanguinary knifing.

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million

And soon the head waiter bowed before them, desolated to relate that the closing hour had already become chronologically historical; so out all trooped into the starry midnight, filling the street with gay laughter, to be barked at by hopeful cabmen and enviously eyed by the dull inhabitants of an uninspired world. Grainger left Mary at the elevator in the trackless palm forest of the Idealia.

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million