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Updated: June 18, 2025
Gamblers, as a class, are very superstitious, and the white policy-player is hardly less so than his colored brother. The latter dreams a good deal, while the former divides his time between trying to guess the lucky numbers and avoiding evil omens. Bad luck walks arm in arm with him beneath every ladder, and below every safe that is being hoisted to a top-floor room.
Do you remember how we sat, in the twilight of a rainy day, in our top-floor room, at the Lion d'Or, in the wide window-seat, which brought us just at a level with that dear tympanum, with its primitive stone carving of David and Goliath, and all those wonderful animals sitting up so bravely on the lacework of the parapet?
She had so well done this that Robin had gone home later only remembering the brightly transitory episode as she recalled others as brief and bright, when she had stared at a light and lovely figure standing on the nursery threshold and asking careless questions of Andrews, without coming in and risking the freshness of her draperies by contact with London top-floor grubbiness.
She manoeuvered him into calling on her at her home, into studying her books and plays on the top-floor sitting-room, into hearing her sing. Once fully in his arms, the rest was easy by suggestion.
At this juncture persons begin jumping out of the top-floor windows, holding cooking stoves in their arms, and a team runs away and plunges through a plate-glass window into a tinware and crockery store.
I threaded three valleys, and then I knew. In all three there had been dormer windows on either hand, that on the square side leading into the loft; the other, or others, forming a sort of skylight to some top-floor room. Suddenly I struck one of these standing very wide open, and trod upon a rope's end curled like a snake on the leads.
If I had gone upstairs to my own top-floor room, I'm sure, being a prim person, she would have considered it improper to summon me down, and I should have missed a heavenly half hour. "A gentleman has called, Miss, and could he come up for five minutes? The name is Captain March." It was true! It was he! And he hadn't even met Diana yet. She had been dancing.
Maybe I do and maybe I don't, but just the same so positive I am he didn't done it, I'm going right down to Henry D. Feldman, and I will fix that feller Linkheimer he should work a poor half-starved yokel for five dollars a week and a couple of top-floor tenement rooms which it ain't worth six dollars a month. Wait! I'll show that sucker."
"We've two rooms in the basement, sir living-room and kitchen and two rooms on the top floor a bedroom and a bathroom." "On the top-floor. How many floors are there?" "Well, sir, there's the basement then there's this then there's two floors that's used by the clerks then there's ours." "That's to say there are two floors between your bedroom and this ground floor?" "Yes, sir two." "Very well.
"I've been in New York these twelve years. Violet says you ast for a top-floor room?" "I did that," said Clo. "Well, a top-floor room is the only wan I've got vacant. How long would ye be wanting it for?" "Oh, a few days, and maybe more." "You can come and have a look. I don't boast of the room. It's last choice. I charge seven dollars with board."
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