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"'Do you know Mis' Jones, your next-door neighbor? he says. I allowed 't I had a speakin' acquaintance with her.
In nearby Nineteenth Street is still standing No. 35, a house where Horace Greeley lived, with William Allen Butler, the author of Nothing to Wear, for a next-door neighbor. Three blocks farther on is the big office building where Dr. Josiah Strong wrote most of Our Country, and where Hamilton W. Mabie has a study in the editorial rooms of The Outlook.
But to be made twice ridiculous even by the incarnation of snobbishness was galling. She was to be my next-door neighbor; we were likely to meet almost anywhere at any time. When I thought of this and of the two meetings which had already taken place I swore at the blue and white water-pitcher on my bureau because it did not contain water enough to drown me.
These preliminaries took place in the winter; I had plenty of time to prepare for the experiment which was to be made in the following May. 'Favier, I said, one day, to my assistant, 'I shall want some of those nests. Go and ask our next-door neighbour's leave and climb to the roof of his shed, with some new tiles and some mortar, which you can fetch from the builder's.
'I will get another spade, so he fetched the big spade out of the next-door garden tool-shed, and began to dig his nephew out. 'Mind you keep very still, he said, 'or I might chunk a bit out of you with the spade. Then after a while he said 'I confess that I am not absolutely insensible to the dramatic interest of the situation. My curiosity is excited.
Bronson Alcott was his next-door neighbor, almost too strong a contrast to him, and Emerson's house was half a mile away; so that these three families formed a group by themselves in that portion of Concord. Hawthorne wrote a letter to his sister Elizabeth, describing his new acquisition, and expressing satisfaction in it.
"This second Richard became in time a highly successful physician, a man honored and beloved by this community. There was no wildness in him, nor in his son, the third Richard. His granddaughter Sarah Hynds married Professor Doctor Max Jelnik, the celebrated Viennese alienist, whom she met abroad. Your next-door neighbor is Sarah's son, born somewhere in Hungary, I believe.
But this is wonderful to me oh, how wonderful! to see the tender and delicate woman among you, with her child at her breast, and a power, if she would wield it, over it, and over its father, purer than the air of heaven, and stronger than the seas of earth nay, a magnitude of blessing which her husband would not part with for all that earth itself, though it were made of one entire and perfect chrysolite: to see her abdicate this majesty to play at precedence with her next-door neighbour!
"I wish I could ride half as good as you do, Miss Frances." Frances smiled. "You did not begin young enough," she said. "My father took me in his arms when I was a week old and rode a half-wild mustang twenty miles across the ranges to exhibit me to the man who was our next-door neighbor in those days. You see, my tuition began early."
She made no attempt to get out of bed, and listened with absolute indifference when the morning feet of the next-door man pounded the stairs. Mary awakened her again and again, but each time, after saying "All right, dearie," she relapsed to a slumber which was more torpor than sleep.
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