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Updated: June 29, 2025
He pointed to the tarnished chrome entrance of one of the biggest and shabbiest of the buildings on the street. "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like North Hasbrouck Arms. It's the sleaziest, cheapest, most run-down tenement in one hemisphere, but I love it. It's a real palace."
So, as there wa'n't no way out of it, I drove down to Asaph's that afternoon. He lived off on a side road by the shore, in a little, run-down shanty that was as no account as he was. When I moored my horse to the "heavenly-wood" tree by what was left of the fence, I would have bet my sou'wester that I caught a glimpse of Brother Blueworthy, peeking round the corner of the house.
Two blocks across from her, seen through the rising walls of the new apartment-houses, were the drab windows of a group of run-down tenements, which broke the sleek respectability of the well-to-do quarter. In those windows Ruth observed foreign-looking, idle women, not very clean, who had nothing to do after they had completed half an hour of slovenly housework in the morning.
Toward Rue de la Goutte d'Or there were some gloomy shops with dirty windows. There were shoemakers, coopers, a run-down grocery, and a bankrupt cafe whose closed shutters were covered with posters. In the opposite direction, toward Paris, four-story buildings blocked the sky.
'Possum went up to their rooms to bed, but Mr. Crow said he would nap in his chair, so that if Mr. Savage Bear should arrive early he would be up to receive him. "Tell him I'm very sick," said Mr. 'Coon, "and too run-down and feeble to get up to make him welcome." "Tell him I'm dead," said Mr. 'Possum. "Say I died last week, and you're only waiting for the ground to thaw to bury me.
Pepper, "and I'll make Mrs. Atterson the same sixteen hundred dollars. It's a run-down farm, of course " "If Mrs. Atterson doesn't want to sell," interrupted Hiram, but here his employer intervened. "There's something more, Hi," she said, her face working "strangely. Tell him, you Pepper!" "Why, the old man gave me an option on the place, and I risked a twenty dollar bill on it.
"Jes see de 'fec's ob high libbin' on a nigger. Dar's muscle fer ye. All you needs, Bre'er Nimbus, is jest a few weeks ob good feed! Come up dar now an' wuk a farm on sheers, an' let Marse Sykes 'llowance ye, an' yer'll come out like me an' git some good clothes, too! Greatest place ter start up a run-down nigger yer ever seed. Jes' look at me, now.
She weighed two hundred and three pounds. At nine o 'clock that night some one took him home from the Essex Club, and Martha was in hysterics until the doctor, summoned with haste and vehemence, assured her that her husband was not dead. The approach of springtime found Eddie in a noticeably run-down condition.
The run-down estate of Newstead was yielding a meager income, but at Southwell one could be shabby and yet respectable. At Southwell Byron met John Pigot and his sister cultured people of a refined and quiet sort. Byron took to them at once, and they liked him.
After all, he would be unable to "make good" and to show people that he could make the old, run-down farm pay a profit to its owner. But Hiram Strong couldn't believe it.
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