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Updated: May 25, 2025
He first appeared at that seventh-story window; he was only half-dressed. Some men tried to seize him; but, bast! with the agility of a squirrel, he jumped out upon the roof, shrieking, 'Murder! murder! The recklessness of his conduct led me to suppose " The gossip stopped short in his narrative, very much surprised and vexed; his questioner had vanished.
Now these lovers like, if I mistake not, many other true lovers before and since when they were particularly happy, when some special piece of good luck had befallen them, could think of no better paradise than a little dinner together in their seventh-story heaven. 'Ah! wilderness were Paradise enow! To-night was obviously such an occasion. But, alas! where was the money to come from?
From a seventh-story window at Twenty-first Street he looked down on the procession in honour of Admiral Dewey. From a vantage point at Thirty-fifth Street he witnessed the passing of floats in the Hudson-Fulton celebration. But there was one day on the Avenue, perhaps the greatest and most inspiring of them all, in which he did not share.
"How is Wall Street these days?" she asked, and just then the machine struck a stone and she went up in the air. "Unsettled," answered Uncle Gilbert when she got back, and then there was an embarrassing silence. To try to hold a polite conversation, on a motor car in full flight is very much like trying to repeat the Declaration of Independence while falling from a seventh-story window.
'And they are gone: aye, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm. That seventh-story heaven once more leads a dull life as the office of a ship-chandler, and harsh voices grate the air where Beauty sang. The books and the flowers and the lovers' faces are gone for ever.
The granite and asphalt pavements of the down-town district reflected a dry, Turkish-bath-room heat. There was no air to speak of. The sky was a burning, milky blue, with the sun gleaming feverishly upon the upper walls of the tall buildings. Mr. Hand, in his seventh-story suite of offices in the Rookery Building, was suffering from the heat, but much more from mental perturbation.
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