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He had been poor, discredited, a convict on parole. Now he wore good clothes, traveled in a Pullman, ate in the diner, was a man of consequence, and, at least on paper, was on the road to wealth. He would put up at the Albany instead of a cheap rooming-house, and he would meet on legitimate business some of the big financial men of the West.

Perhaps later on he would be able to face the situation, but just now his one desire was to get away from everything connected with his unhappiness. In beating about in his mind for a temporary refuge, he remembered a downtown rooming-house to which he had once gone with Dirks, the foreman at Bartlett & Bangs.

"If you will happen round to the palace about noon to-morrow, Señor Pesquiera, you will be admitted to the presence by the court flunkies. When you're inquiring for the whereabouts of the palace, better call it room 14, Gold Nugget Rooming-House." He excused himself and stepped lightly across to his companion in the adventure, who had by this time recovered consciousness. "How goes it, Tom?

She had passed from the narrowest poverty of the Alton side street to the prodigal ease of Herndon Hall, from the environment of an inferior "rooming-house" to companionship with the rich daughters of "our very best people," from an unformed child to the full physical estate of womanhood, all within three short years; but she had accommodated herself to these great transitions with as little inward change as possible.

Bell desired to give lectures in New York City, but was not certain that his apparatus would operate at that distance over the lines available. The laboratory was on the third floor of a rooming-house, and Watson shouted so loud in his efforts to make his voice carry that the roomers complained. So he took blankets and erected a sort of tent over the instruments to muffle the sound.

By the middle of July he was confined to his bed with a heavy bronchial cold and a temperature that boded ill. Once down and defenseless, he became a prey to all the feminine solicitude of the rooming-house. The old lady next door pottered in and out, putting mustard plasters on his chest and forgetting to take them off, and feeding him nauseous concoctions that she brewed over a coal-oil stove.

And they had only the fifteen dollars in Matilda's black bag. "It seems to me, ma'am," ventured Matilda, "that a rooming-house or a boarding-house would be cheapest." "A boarding-house!" exclaimed Mrs. De Peyster. "But where?" Matilda remembered and reached into her slit pocket. "Yesterday I happened to pick up the card of a boarding-house in the library I've no idea how it came there.

He secured her former address from the police, a three-story brick rooming-house in the local tenderloin, and waited rather uncomfortably for the mistress of the place to see him. She came at last, a big woman, vast and shapeless and with an amiable loose smile, and she came in with the light step of the overfleshed, only to pause in the doorway and to stare at him. "My God!" she said.

It ain't Saturday night." At the stoop of her rooming-house they lingered. A honey-colored moon hung like a lantern over the block-long row of shabby-fronted houses. On her steps and to her fermenting fancy the shadow of an ash-can sprawled like a prostrate human being. "Charley!" She clutched his arm. "Whatcha scared about, Sweetness?" "Oh, Charley, I I feel creepy to-night."

Men like me won't get married, nor have children to slave for the rich." "What do the girls do?" Adelle asked, thinking of her own fate if she had been left in the Church Street rooming-house. The mason shrugged his shoulders and came out with another brutality. "Some of 'em go into the houses for your men to use there's always that for 'em," he added, with a disagreeable laugh.