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Updated: June 12, 2025
August Viele had yesterday registered the transfer of the lot, 25 x 75 feet, at the corner of Warren and Hudson Streets, to J. F. Slawson for the sum of $57,000. "Our lease expires when?" asked Hurstwood, thinking. "Next February, isn't it?" "That's right," said Shaughnessy. "It doesn't say what the new man's going to do with it," remarked Hurstwood, looking back to the paper.
I promised Mrs. Sherman you'd come, an' I couldn't break my word to her, now could I? I'd be like to lose my own job if I did, an' I'm sure you wouldn't ast that o' me!" "But," said Claire, troubled, "you told me Radcliffe is so unmanageable." Mrs. Slawson devoted herself to her chocolate and buns for a moment or two. "O, never you fear about Radcliffe," she announced at length.
"O, dear, no!" said Martha Slawson suavely. "Any place is good enough for me. Don't trouble yourself. I'm not particular where I am." Unbidden, she drew out a chair from its place beside one of the uninviting tables, and sat down on it deliberately. It creaked beneath her weight. "O oh! Miss Lang!" said Mrs. Daggett, surprised, seeing her young lodger now, for the first time. Martha nodded.
Claire's pale, pinched face flushed hotly. "No, I don't," she confessed, without lifting her downcast eyes. Her companion appeared to ponder this for a moment, then quite abruptly she let it drop. "My name's Slawson," she observed. "Martha Slawson. I go out by the day. Laundry-work, housecleaning, general chores. What's your name, if I may make so bold?" "Claire Lang.
Slawson has a lady come to board with her for a spell, that's fixin' for chills or somethin', onless she can be kep' warm an' comfortable, an' the radianator in the boarder's room don't send out much heat to speak of. Talk up polite, Sammy; d'you hear me? An' be sure you don't let on Snyder might be keepin' a better fire in his furnace if he didn't begrutch the coal so.
"No, I haven't made it, that is, not yet. But I'm not discouraged. I don't mean to give up. Things look pretty dark just now, but I'm not going to let that discourage me No, indeed! I'm going to be brave and courageous, and never say die, even if even if " "Turn 'round, an' pertend you're lookin' out of the winder," suggested Mrs. Slawson confidentially.
I always was fond o' Mr. Ronald myself. I never thought he was as hard an' stern with a body as some thinks. Some thinks he's as hard as nails, but " "O, I'm sure he's not," cried Claire with unexpected loyalty. "His manner may seem a little cold and proud sometimes, but I know he's very kind and generous." "Certaintly. So do I know it," said Mrs. Slawson.
Why don't you have some style about you an' land him one, where it'll do the most good, or else leave him? But no, you wouldn't do that I know you wouldn't! Some women has to cling to somethin', no matter if they have to support it themselves." Mrs. Langbein's inarticulate sobbing had passed into a spasmodic struggle for breathless utterance. "He don't mean no harm, Mis' Slawson.
Sherman glanced up languidly from the book she was reading, and inquired with pointed irony, "You didn't find it convenient to come to me directly I sent for you, did you, Martha?" Mrs. Slawson closed the door behind her gently, then stood planted like some massive caryatid supporting the frame.
It meant so much that tears were very near the surface all that day, and even at night, when Martha was holding forth to her brood, they were not altogether to be suppressed. "Easter comes early this year," Mrs. Slawson observed. "'M I going to have a new hat?" inquired Cora. "What for do you need a new hat, I should like to know?
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