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"Who said anybody wanted to change it?" He patted her arm again very closely. "You're a wonderful girl, Clara." They turned up the stoop of Mrs. Schulem's boarding-house, strictly first-class. How they flourish in the city, these institutions of the Not Yet, the Never Was, the Never Will Be, and the Has Been!
And yet, if there exists such a paradox as an aristocracy among boarding-houses, Mrs. Schulem's was of it. None of the boiled odors lay on her hallways, which were not papered, but a cream-colored fresco of better days. There was only one pair of bisques, no folding-bed, and but the slightest touch of dried grasses in her unpartitioned front parlor.
"Whatever you paid, it's worth the money. It sets you off like a gipsy queen." "None of that, Sam! Mush is fattening." "Mush nothing! It's the truth." "Hurry. Schulem's got a new rule no reserving the guest-table."
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