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Updated: June 15, 2025
"You mean we'll be in some horrible boardinghouse, in a still more horrible hall bedroom, looking out on a dingy back yard." "It isn't a horrible boardinghouse, Anne-girl. Here's our cab. Hop in the driver will get your trunk. Oh, yes, the boardinghouse it's really a very nice place of its kind, as you'll admit tomorrow morning when a good night's sleep has turned your blues rosy pink.
For eight long years he had struggled and labored; changing his occupation several times, but always living in the city; always making his home in a boardinghouse or a hotel. His pluck and energy had had its reward, and for the past three years he had held a responsible and well-paid position in a mercantile house.
A significant incident occurred in connection with the examination in Bengali. Romesh, who had touched little on that subject, called me back one morning as I was leaving the boardinghouse on my way to the examination hall. "There is Romesh shouting for you," a classmate said to me impatiently. "Don't return; we shall be late at the hall." Ignoring the advice, I ran back to the house.
He did, and conversed most interestingly on the way. Our travelers felicitated themselves upon falling into such good hands, but when they reached the hotel designated it had such a gloomy and in fact boardinghouse air that they hesitated, and thought they would like to walk on a little farther and see the town before settling.
In these dreams she was always being pursued by a lover. "And then I woke up, screaming." Neither she nor the sewing girls knew what she was revealing in these confidences of hers. But Aunt Sophy, the shrewd, somehow sensed it. "You're alone too much, evenings. That's what comes of living in a boardinghouse. You come over to me for a week.
After walking about aimlessly for a short time, as if to see whether he was watched, he had proceeded some distance along the quay, and had then gone into a large house used as a tavern and sailors' boardinghouse, but which did but a small trade, the landlord having a bad name in the place.
In Harmony, when she started alone to the wicked city to study art, they said she was a mad, reckless, headstrong girl. In New York, when she first took her seat at a West Side boardinghouse table, the boarders asked: "Who is the nice-looking old maid?"
Here the boardinghouse analogy breaks, breaks so signally that I was lately moved to ask a distinguished editor why a book of short stories usually failed and a magazine usually succeeded because of them.
They are a fine old couple, and I don't like to think of them herding with Freshmen in a shine boardinghouse. Black always was a swine." Peter spent fully ten minutes getting to the cable office. "Just learned," he cabled his father, "Gilman dismissed because flunked me consider this outrageous please see he is reinstated." The answer, which arrived the next day, did not satisfy Peter.
They must have come from somebody who has been in the retail dry-goods business, or something of that nature. I have certain vague reminiscences that carry me back to the early times of this boardinghouse. -Johnny. -Landlady knows his father well. -Boarded with her, no doubt. -There was somebody by the name of John, I remember perfectly well, lived with her.
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