so young, so pretty, so charming! But when it came to a matter of shrewd bargaining, you couldn’t beat her. Her squeezing of the other fellow’s price was clever–she could have wrung juice from a raw quince. Her big husband was entirely dominated by his tall, slender wife;…
Lower East and Lower West were both rented to brides. The brides sat in their living-rooms with only a wall dividing; they looked out at the same view. They did not know each other. In the East flat, the young husband was trying to accommodate himself to…
There were four western maple trees growing in the lot upon which I built my house. Two were in the strip of front lawn, clear of foundations, but when the builders came to overhead wiring they found one of the trees interfered. The line-men cut it down.
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