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"I want to ask, sir, how much rent your conscience will allow you to demand for this pigeon-box of a house?" "Well, I had an idea of asking two hundred dollars for it. Cheap enough at that. You may have it for two hundred," said he, with a good-humored nod toward Beulah. "Very well, I will take it at that, provided Mrs. Williams likes it as well as I do. In a day or two I will determine."
"Well?" "We are right again in that respect." "Yes, thanks to my dear wife's good resolution and prompt action." "It was wrong to take so costly a house," said Anna. "I couldn't find a cheaper one that was genteel and comfortable." "I'm sure I wouldn't ask any thing more genteel and comfortable than Mrs. Tyler's house." "That pigeon-box!" Brainard spoke in, a tone of contempt.
"I spent the evening with our friend Tyler last week," said I. "His salary is the same as yours, and he told me that he found it not only sufficient for all his wants, but that he could lay by a couple of hundred dollars yearly." "I couldn't live as he does," said Brainard, a little impatiently. "Why not?" "Do you think I would be cooped up in such a pigeon-box of a place?"
She called the lad's name, but there was no answer. "Andrew! where are you?" The mother looked searchingly about the room. But she neither saw the boy nor heard his voice. Perceiving now that the back-window was open, she sprung to it with a sudden thrill of alarm. The first object that caught her sight, was Andrew suspended in the air on the pole that supported the pigeon-box.
We can get a house large enough for our own purposes at three dollars a week, or one hundred and fifty dollars a year, I am sure, thus saving five dollars a week there, and that money would buy all the plain food our whole family would eat." "But it will never do, Mary, for us to go to moving into a little bit of a pigeon-box of a house."
"Did they think we were going into that little pigeon-box, just under the shadow of Woodbine Lodge. If we have to come down so low, it will not be in this neighbourhood. There's too much pride in the Markland blood for that!" "We have but little to do with pride now," said Mrs. Markland. Her husband sighed. The remark of his sister had quickened his blood.
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