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They are prone to habits, they frequent reading-rooms, insurance-offices, they walk the same streets at the same hours, so that one becomes familiar with their faces and persons, as a part of the street-furniture. There is one curious circumstance, that all city-people must have noticed, which is often illustrated in our experience of the slack-water gentry.
They are prone to habits, to frequent reading-rooms, insurance-offices, to walk the same streets at the same hours, so that one becomes familiar with their faces and persons, as a part of the street-furniture. There is one curious circumstance, that all city-people must have noticed, which is often illustrated in our experience of the slack-water gentry.
They are prone to habits, they frequent reading-rooms, insurance-offices, they walk the same streets at the same hours, so that one becomes familiar with their faces and persons, as a part of the street-furniture. There is one curious circumstance, that all city-people must have noticed, which is often illustrated in our experience of the slack-water gentry.
But being kept at home by uncomfortable toes, no suspicious mortal, such as abound in the lounging-rooms of insurance-offices and other resorts of business-men in town, happened ingeniously to put his suspicions on a scent, and he did not come within a league of the thought that Chip Dartmouth could have had anything to do with the strange and blamable conduct of the wires.
Consequently its daily papers reach the controlling minds of the country. They are found in all reading-rooms, exchanges, bank parlors, insurance-offices, counting-rooms, hotels, and wherever else the ruling men of the country congregate. But, above all, they are, and must be, in all newspaper offices, subject to the scissors. This is the chief source of their importance.
He tells them that they have nothing to do but dance and sing, and twine roses in their hair, and gather a train of lovers, and that the world will always be like an illuminated ball-room. And Time goes to the Commercial News- Room, and visits the insurance-offices, and stands at the corner of Essex and St. Peter's Streets, talking with the merchants.
Sidney suspected that the block was intentionally set on fire to defraud the insurance-offices. Without any aid or knowledge of other parties, he began an investigation, and ascertained that the buildings were insured far beyond their value.