Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 20, 2025
The girl turned, and, as on the night at the roof-garden, found the man's eyes upon her. "What name does your friend give to his work?" she asked. "He calls it 'The Unattainable." "And what is its meaning?" "Ambition, perfection, complete happiness anything striven for with one's whole soul." Florence was studying her companion now as steadily as he had been studying her a moment before.
It was rather early, and she was upon the roof-garden, on the third story of the house, where there was a commanding view of the city. Berenice was busy reading from a papyrus the Egyptian legend of the "Adventures of Sinuhit," translating into Greek as she read. Cleomenes broke in upon the reading. His face wore a mysterious smile.
Each child has his or her little plot of ground in the roof-garden, where they are taught the once wellnigh forgotten art of agriculture. The improvement of the tenement-house has gone hand in hand with that of the apartment-house. As nearly as the rate of interest on the landlord's investment will allow, the housing of the poor approaches in comfort that of the rich.
Blondin?" "Miss Nina and I want to know what day we may have our party?" Royal repeated. "The studio party?" "The roof-garden party. We're going to have it from half-past six to half-past seven only, because then it won't be too hot. We shall only ask the people we like! Gira Diable will come and dance for us, and Tilly will read something " "That's Unger Tillotson, the actor!"
Cross the western edge of the Rendezvous, and you are in the rotunda, the centre of the hotel's many activities and its very necessary hub. Whether bound for dining-room or parlors, for guest chamber or amusement room; whether attracted by the click of billiards below, or the brightness of the roof-garden above, all paths here intersect. On the first floor is the office.
There had been times when she had shown clearly enough that she was anxious to understand, anxious to believe in him. He clung to the memory of these; pushed into the background that faint impression he had had of her at the roof-garden, serene and proud, yet with a faint look of something like pain in her startled eyes. A large limousine passed him slowly, crawling up Fifth Avenue.
But he who came as a stranger could not feel within him the tenderness of old love, the sanctity of old tradition, and the desperation of kin in his blood as he gazed upon Jerusalem. Yonder was a roof-garden; to him, no more than that.
We'd go up on the terrace, where the potted palms grow, for our dinner, and the tables all around us would be full of people that would know Johnnie Doe and me, and they'd all make us drink drinks and tell us how glad they were to see us aboard again. And after dinner," said young Arthur Benham, with wide and smiling eyes "after dinner we'd go to see one of the roof-garden shows.
Nurses, physicians, and ward attendants are clothed in fur coats and gloves, the patients are kept muffled up to the ears, with only the face exposed; but instead of perishing from exposure, little, gasping, struggling tots, whose cases were regarded as practically hopeless in the wards below, often fall into the sleep that is the turning point toward recovery within a few hours after being placed in this winter roof-garden.
And an excellent dinner, mainly from the refrigerator, seemed to successfully back my judgment as to summer resorts. But North grumbled all during the meal, and cursed his lawyers and prated so of his confounded camp in the woods that I began to wish he would go back there and leave me in my peaceful city retreat. After dining we went to a roof-garden vaudeville that was being much praised.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking