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Updated: June 16, 2025
In the first place there was no house, which demanded the service and the protection of a strong male, merely a partitioned-off corner in a ten-story brick box, where no man was necessary even to shake the furnace or lock the front door.
Here, too, was where the undertaker sold the clothes of the man who stepped off a ten-story building in the morning and was laid out that same night in Digwell's back room, his friends depositing a fresh suit for him to be buried in, telling the undertaker to do with the old one as he pleased.
I have had my balloon catch fire in mid air, I have hung on the cornice of a ten-story house, I have dropped like a bullet for six hundred feet when a parachute was slow in opening; but never have I felt so weak and faint and sick as when I staggered toward the unscratched boy and gripped him by the arm. "Tommy Dermott," I said, when I had got my nerves back somewhat.
They did not turn up town to the club and residence quarter, but descended towards the river, passing on their way the massive skeleton of the ten-story building that was to house, when completed, the Parrott and Price business. It rose in the smoky sunset, stretching out spidery tendons of steel to the heavens, and from its interior came a mighty clangor.
My kind neighbors have handed me a ten-story apartment-house, with a minimum rental per suite of three thousand dollars a year. I'm going to build their neighborhood ornament and fill it with high-toned niggers!" Mrs. Slosher smiled. She was a beautiful young woman. To youth belongs much. Johnny Gamble, caught amidships, as it were, snorted. "Well, I don't live out there," he said. Mr.
"Max," she asked, quite suddenly, "how much light do you have in your office?" "Floods of it," replied Max, promptly. "I have to wear a shade sometimes." "Daylight?" "Bless your soul, no! What do you think a ground-floor banking house gets, between a lot of ten-story buildings? Electrics, of course, are the only things possible." "Then you don't have the daylight at all?"
Most of us who were born here have quite lost our hold on the earth; for instance, here we are, Kate and I, treed in a ten-story hotel on ground from which we used to gather huckleberries, and therein lies the history of many another New York family." Viola looked round the spacious and handsome dining-room. "I think this way of living is beautiful.
"Well, the thing I'd like to have explained is come over here to the window a minute, will you, Algy?" Mr. Spofford came, and gazed down upon a dispiriting area of rain-swept street and bedraggled wayfarers. "See that ten-story office building across the way?" pursued Average Jones.
"The town council has already passed resolutions restricting the height of the buildings to six stories. They ain't going to take the chance that New York does, and have some of these big tall ten-story affairs topple over into their streets. "All the yaps out in that neighborhood are lining out for the spring plowing now while the yaps here are lining out for the spring millinery openings.
But I don't care!" she added with vivacity. "I'd rather live alone in a ten-story house than have missed that Exhibition!" "Yes," mused Laura Ann thoughtfully, "it was a beautiful one. I'm glad I didn't miss it. When I think of what it stood for " She broke off suddenly and slipped her hand into Billy's arm. Another short silence.
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