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eastern chapter the eastern district of at avenue and twenty first street in philadelphia where was now to serve his sentence of four years and six months was a large structure or wall and prison ten acres in extent solemn and momentous in its mien not at all unlike the palace of the at although not so distinguished ...	43
small office presenting ds prisoner before a small chest high desk where stood i prison officer in uniform of blue the latter the of the prison a thin practical person with narrow gray eyes and light hair the paper which the s handed him and it this was his authority for receiving ii his turn he handed a slip showing ...	43
then was what society did to the criminal he thought to himself it took him and tore away from his body and his life the of his state and left him these he felt sad and grim and try as he would he could not help showing it for a moment it was always his business and his intention to conceal his real feelings but now it...	43
into it rats and other this and it gave off an unpleasant which filled the cell the floor was of stone s clear seeing eyes somewhat touched with regret at his took it all in at a glance he also took in mr the homely good natured cell whom he now saw for the first time a large heavy man rather dusty and looking whose u...	43
always tell how the plans we think so fine are coming out you re here now an i suppose you re sorry certain things didn t come out just as you thought but if you had a chance i don t suppose you d try to do just as you did before would no mr i wouldn t exactly said truly enough though i believed i was light in everythi...	43
one comer and that discouraged him it was possible that rats might come up here it looked that way no pictures no books no scene no person no space to walk just the four bare walls and silence which would probably be shut in tight at night by the thick door what a horrible fate he sat down and contemplated his situat...	43
yet save the organization he had begun but this as he now looked upon it was almost impossible it had been and complicated by evil circumstances he might as pointed out to him string out these proceedings for years out one and another but in the meanwhile the properties involved were being seriously interest charges an...	43
you will one man respects another they are like wolves and that run best in they may eat one another ultimately but never so long as there is anything else to eat never having seen did not know who was looking at him but on the instant he suspected it must be the this isn t mr is it he asked courteously and pleasantly ...	43
tasks of bed making dressing eating rising at and retiring at nine washing his several dishes each meal etc the food he found was such a fall that to which he had been accustomed that he ht he would never get used to it breakfast as has said was at six thirty and consisted of coarse black i made of and some white flou...	43
as had told him he was removed from the manners to a cell in block on the ground floor which was like all the others in size ten by sixteen but to which was attached the small yard of the same size that had been mentioned as possibly coming to him came up two days before he was transferred and had another short convers...	43
paper but no self respecting man if he could help it would endure them was not allowed at all and were as indicating rank nevertheless they were brought in if a prisoner had the price and was willing to see that secured something for his trouble almost anything would be the privilege of being sent into the general yard...	43
me replied i think i know what most of the rules are now i ll try not to break any of them went away and was left to himself contemplating the years that were before him here he must get and and his father and others to work hard in order to get him out it was intolerable to him to think that he should be compelled to ...	43
usually came at four after business and in the morning when he came at all she w as very ous over this strange adventure leaving the some distance away and walking up a side street the cold weather and the gray walls under a gray sky gave her a sense of defeat but she had worked ver hard to look nice in order to cheer ...	43
fire the panic the political situation which had him and sent him here now he was quite alone still fighting to win but alone his friends had almost deserted him his family and home life were practically outside of the business he was trying to build up with day by day he had nothing really was with him no longer bel...	43
sent him cheerfully on his way showed how to use edward and joseph to the best advantage and by considerable effort finally got senior a place as a clerk the old gentleman of a in a bank to see old bustling off from his new but very much reduced home at half after seven in the morning in order to reach the small bank w...	43
became very trivial in view of these things and he found himself asking whether it was all really of any significance or importance he shook these moods off with ease however for the man was possessed of a sense of grandeur largely in relation to himself and his affairs and his temperament was essentially material and...	43
and the children properly as he saw that his means would permit ver liberally no doubt later on but just now she must let him go set him free so that when he came out of prison he would be at liberty to do as he chose thi was the very important business in hand ril tell you how it is he said tm not sure that y are go...	43
very he did not think half so badly of his future as he said ril not do it declared mrs i ll never do it never so there you can say what choose you owe it to me to stick by me and the children after all i ve done for you and i ll not do it you needn t ask me any more i ll not do it the very well replied quietly getting...	43
must in a manner one must under many circumstances look and dramatic but always dignified and refined on this occasion did so on the instant what is it he says about my sister what right has he to mention her name here anyhow he doesn t know her now don t get mad please don t i beg you pleaded feeling himself to be the...	43
was done until the march following butler s death when both and had been thirteen months a length the of r qui e to the anger c r r a i in this period had r j r e change and mentally ir s v r e ac ha a n of the minor v r il tr n ei in ways by his h d l i fc him and ha he bad been given as it were hj li of ihe place an...	43
and decided to come along to the cell to see how he would take his the four thus arrived together finding hard at work on his task the c on the way commented on the i hat he had always been a model prisoner he k a garden out there in that yard of his he v r od to walter whom introduced to j v he had and and out c v and...	43
about things in general and then he was going to resume some such duties as he had had in his own concern with co he was going to secure a seat on change again through his friends and to escape the effect of the prejudice of those who might care to do business with an ex he was going to act as general outside man and f...	43
of co in spite of its significance as a and concern was a most affair four stories and a half in height of gray stone and red brick sixty by one hundred in size and most as to its height and general air space it had never been deemed a handsome or comfortable house er had been there often wharf rats as long as the of a...	43
two hundred thousand dollars more that afternoon between three and seven he spent his trades and between seven and one in the morning without anything to eat in gathering as much additional information as he could and la his plans for the saturday morning came and he repeated his performance of the day before following...	43
ed for the day when the issue might be tried out physically here the thames was especially delightful the french have made much of the one of the thousands upon thousands of on the of paris these places were crowded with a gay and throng i looked to a distant table to see the figure he indicated my heavens how well she...	43
ride the day we sailed of the suicide of a friend of mine a brilliant man he had fallen on hard lines his wife had decided to desert him he was badly in debt i knew him well i had known his history here on this morning when i was sailing for europe quite in the flush of a momentary literary victory he was lying in deat...	43
they are of it women the women of ambition artistic act anyhow all the time they lie like anything they never show their true colors or very rarely if you want to know the truth you must see through their pretty petty back to the actual conditions behind them which are and driving them very few if any have a real gr...	43
i could feel represented our raw american force a foreigner will not i am afraid understand exactly what i mean but there is something about the american climate its soil rain winds race spirit which produces a raw direct of soul in its children they are strong erect elated enthusiastic they look you in the eye cut you...	43
coming to me mile by mile as i stood there a bell over me struck eight times another farther off sounded the same number then a voice at the called all s well and another aloft on that little called the crow s nest echoed it all s well the second voice was weak and something came up in my throat a quick lump of emotio...	43
better than and fixed motion i hope i trust the universe is not mechanical but blind miss x let s hope it s a vague uncertain but divine idea wc know it is beautiful it must be so the wind up of this day occurred in the lounging or reception room where after dinner we all retired tc listen to the music and then began o...	43
live and what do they do when they live i asked what do they call living oh having a nice country house within a short distance of london or paris and being able to dine at the best and visit the best once or twice a week to go to paris or or or two or th or four or as many times a year as they please to wear good clot...	43
rejoiced together singing and then we fought there is a between experienced which a at forty waves aside all she had seen a lot of life so had i she said she thought she would like to walk a little and we strolled back along the heaving deck to the end of the first cabin section and then to the stern when we reached th...	43
rusty car wheel and somehow it with a lone rocky coast here they were their little feet coral red their gray their bodies snowy white or sober gray and crying my heart remembers how i looked at them and that old intense sensation of joy came back the wish to fly the wish to be young the wish to be happy the wish to b...	43
on me as an and as some one who should be put off the train instead of assisted in going anywhere american are american and train hands are grand at least a porter is little less than a and a hotel clerk god forbid that we should mention him in the same breath with any of the foregoing however as i was going on to say...	43
leap up as i thought of our own george and what he would have done with these scenes and what the english has done though he preferred as a rule another key at four thirty one of the charming english came and asked if we would have tea in the dining car we would we arose and in a few moments were entering one of those ...	43
at forty could see that it might be just as well or better to call a ticket office a office or to have three classes of carriages instead of two as with us or to have carriages instead of cars or instead of street or lifts instead of what difference does it make life is the same old thing nevertheless there was a treme...	43
thought of cock crow in that tragedy i slept morning came and with it a knocking on the door i called come in in came the maid neat bringing a large tin basin very much wider than an american tub but not so deep a large water can full of hot water and the like she put the tub and water can down drew a rack from the w...	43
surely live and learn i thought and went on my way smiling this house interested me from so many other points of view being particularly english and new that i was never weary of it i had a conversation with the gardener one morning concerning his duties and found that he had an exact of the family which covered every ...	43
and set down in a narrow angle off the strand and lighted by small lead windows which in america would strongly of days in fact we have scarcely any such buildings left s private offices were on the second floor up a small dingy staircase and the room itself was so small that it surprised me by its i could not call it...	43
me the policeman s under his chin was new and in the stores the clerks first attracted my attention but i may say the stores and shops themselves after new york seemed small and old new a glimpse of london york is so new the space given to the more important shops is so considerable in london it struck me that the spac...	43
i reached the house of mrs w which was in one of those lovely squares that constitute such a striking feature of the west end i was ushered upstairs to the drawing room where i found my host a rather practical shrewd looking and his less obviously wife oh mr exclaimed my hostess on sight as she came forward to greet me...	43
certain social you know the type how like a sympathetic i thought to pick a lady of this character to associate with one always finds these opposing types together the thing that interested me was to see this charming little keeping up as smart a social form as her means would permit and stiu hoping after years of effo...	43
ears i remember writing this somewhere about the fourth or fifth day of my stay it was delicious the sense of novelty and wonder it gave me i am one of those who have been raised on and and lamb but i must confess i found little to the world of vague impressions i had formed novels are a mere expression of temperament ...	43
it was endless and that there were no high buildings nothing over four or five stories as a rule though now and then you actually find eight and nine story buildings and that it was and simple and sad in some respects i remember thinking how gloomy were some of the figures i saw here and there in the smoke streets a...	43
some one told me had been staring me in the face over a stretch of park space and intervening buildings on such evenings as parliament was in and i frequently with myself whether i should trouble to go or not even if some one invited me i grow so weary of standard completed things at times however i did go it came abo...	43
vital importance i can see him bustling away in his long frock coat his in his hand ready to be counted yea or nay as the case might be afterwards when he had for me a tour in ireland which i must sometime take he took us up into the members gallery of the in order to see how wonderful it was and we sat as solemn as co...	43
to think that i was in the of so much that was old but for the exact details i confess i cared little here the thames was especially delightful it presented such odd i watched the tumbling tide of water whipped by wind where moderate sized and were going by in the mist and rain it was delicious artistic far more signif...	43
curiosity of the religious ideal in another section of the city where i walked and still another seven kings i found conditions which i thought those in the new york in in and elsewhere i could not see any difference between the lines of store front apartment houses in seven kings and and shepherd s bush for that m...	43
i remember going into one where an inn might once have been and finding in there a shop a tin shop a store room of some kind and a stable all invisible from the street do you recall description of busy inn scenes you came into this one under the chamber belonging to a house which was built over the entry way there was ...	43
s rather curious to me it s one of the poorest i know certainly the poorest i stop at there is no life to speak of here at all if you want to see a typical english town where there s more life and business you want to see or no no you mustn t judge england by this i suppose you re to see things you re not english i see...	43
used as a country club or meeting house than as in our case a resort if there were drunken men or women in any of the this night i did not see them my scotch friend assured me that he believed them ordinarily to be fairly respectable not knowing my way through the woods adjacent and having spent much time in this way i...	43
bright shop windows london s display of and gold and silver ornaments interests me intensely it was and i had no umbrella yet that situation soon ceases to annoy one in england i walked on into street and stopped under an arc light to watch the home crowds the clerks men and women the boys and girls the thought was wi...	43
looking she was pleasant and brisk and her whole attitude reassured me at once she did not look like a person who would to rob and i had good reason to think more clearly of this as we came out later this way said my street girl we go up here and i followed her up two flights of stairs into a small dingy room it was cl...	43
should say or better yet a world in which never had a chance to grow the women were the birds of prey cold weary angry dull sad perhaps the men were victims of desire without the ability to understand how weary and disgusted the women were who sought to satisfy them no clear understanding of life on either side no sug...	43
governed the policeman must be an immense power in london vice yes poverty yes i saw young boys and girls with bodies which seemed to me to be but half made up by nature half done they were low yes in many cases filthy yes savage or dangerous not at all i noticed the large number of cheap cloth caps worn by the m...	43
this after a long conversation with my guide whose principal was that they were a worthless lot and that you had to watch them all the time if you don t he said in english they won t keep things clean you can t teach em scarcely how to do things right now and then they gets their hands caught he was referring to the wa...	43
poised nervous manner oh yes so you re new to england i envy you your early impression i am for the future the extreme pleasure of reading you these little opening always amuse me we are all on the stage and we play our parts whether we do so or not it appeared that the had to be provided for sir had to be given a has...	43
more enthusiastic and aware as you reach the top at least it has been so he said but now and the newspapers are beginning to break up this lovely of simplicity and ignorance into something that is not so nice people want to get on now he declared they want each to be greater than the other they must have and and and th...	43
cannot over the weakness of a humanity that will alternately be low and high shabby and gorgeous narrow and vast the last thing we saw were some very old portions of christ college which had been inhabited by i believe in their day and this thrilled and delighted me quite as much as anything i forgot all about the rain...	43
to have me do them all just that way that is day by day as i experienced them i found that quite impossible however once he wanted to know if i had any special preference in or and i knew very well why he asked another time he overheard me make the statement that i had always longed to eat rich cheese from germany done...	43
christmas morning with the children christmas in england the day broke clear and bright and there we all were it was not cold and as is usual there was little if any wind i remember looking out of my window down into the valley toward and admiring the green upon the trees the clustered chimneys of a group of farmers an...	43
of that simplicity in ability which is such a splendid characteristic of the english although there were many graves here of the nobility and gentry from as far back as the sixteenth century there was no least indication so far as i could see of but everywhere simple names only and not virtues sometimes perhaps a stat...	43
she was not so fascinating as i thought in either case my anticipated pleasure would come to the ground with a crash we entered shall i say with beating hearts had returned with sir and t he was now his english legs in front of the fire and upon some vanity of the day at sight of the children he began his customary but...	43
my suspicions were well founded england gets many of its christmas toys from america nothing came of this episode except a pleasant introduction for who had all the future before him i was leaving for after the new year and for paris a week or two later it was all in vain as i foresaw that i was invited to call again o...	43
provided for a new saddle bridle and whip for s riding pony curious german mechanical toys from and certain ornamental articles of dress seemed by the astonishing bursts of excitement they provoked exceedingly welcome now drew off his whiskers and cap to reveal himself as and we all literally got down on the floor to ...	43
in the last fifty years hence they have been built not in that time a part of was nothing great cotton and machine works and was not anything either save long lines of brick cottages one and two stories high and mills mills mills mills it always me how life itself any idea in life such as a design for a house over...	43
american general at london that they are equipped with the very smoky england latest cotton spinning machinery and are now in a position to hold their own on equal terms with american competition if not utterly to defy it the and of the machinery is greater than that employed in our mills i could not help thinking what...	43
goin to die i could see from her look that what she said was true only her exceeding weariness employed her mind i learned that water came from a in the yard that the kitchen floor was of earth then i left noticing as i went that she wore wooden shoes in the public square at gathered about the city hall where one would...	43
many cases the end of a street or the sheer dismal length of an unbroken row of houses all alike was honored made picturesque made grand even by the presence of the mills these gloomy monuments of labor there is an architecture of manufacture dreary and shabby as its setting almost invariably is which in its solemnity ...	43
meet with him there to travel to paris together and the from the i was to go on to rome and he was to return to england among other pleasant social duties i paid a farewell visit to sir who shall appear often hereafter in these pages during the christmas holidays at s i had become well acquainted with this irish knight...	43
you faced it a large blue gray car suddenly appeared and a striking looking in a hat stepped out i had the wish and the fancy that i was looking at the himself a sound stern intellectual looking person but i did not ask he gave me a sharp inquiring look and i withdrew beyond these sacred and into the cathedral itself...	43
in a comfortable position on deck to which we could repair in case it should clear up on the way over all of this i faithfully did the chairs had the best possible position behind the deck house and one of my pieces of luggage was left there as a that they belonged to me it looked like rain when the train arrived and w...	43
boat at and the similar boat which took us off the at there although the crowd which had arrived was equally large all was peaceful and rather still the went about their work in such a matter of fact manner en route to paris all was in apple pie order there was no shouting to speak of here all was and confusion apparen...	43
of this it would have seemed hard and cold and bare and dry except for these little v o a at forty of roofs and the lightness of the spirit of the people we wandered through high walled paved streets until suddenly we came on the cathedral soaring upward out of a of the dreary and commonplace i had thought was wonderfu...	43
a long run ahead of them yet over thirty hours to rome and paris was just one point in their journey we crowded into one car with luggage its windows damp with human breath various occupying the section and disposed of our and so on as best we could i slipped the bustling old a not so much because he deserved it bu...	43
to sit down in the de paris to an excellent dinner which he had ordered by telegraph i recall my wonder in entering paris the lack of any long extended the sudden flash of electric lights and electric cars mostly we seemed to be entering through a or and then we were there the noisy in their caps and blue were all aro...	43
forty is concerned it is as good a place to go for dinner as the city it me now when i think of how the ability of had been working through all this as the had been arranged in his mind i was to take the elder of the two ladies as my partner and he had reserved the younger for himself as a matter of fact they were real...	43
of temperament a woman can rise in the and world of paris quite as she can on the stage and she can easily from the and s to the stage though the path is on the other hand the stage freely to the atmosphere of s the and other of their kind a large number of the figures seen here and at the and other places of the same ...	43
interesting features and i recall now with delight how fresh and and it all seemed paris has an air a presence from the poorest quarter of the district to the of the and the region about the arc de it chanced that the day was bright and i saw the as bright as new buttons glimmering over the stones of its shallow banks ...	43
recover slowly after that you settle down to live the life you found there in contentment and with delight but you would not be in so much danger of your very mortal body and your immortal soul i was interested in this neighborhood as we hurried through and away from it to the de la and dame as being not only a for art...	43
this gives this person a complete over the affairs of all the tenants mail guests purchases messages anything and everything if you have a charming it is well and good if not not the thought of anything so offensive as a irritated me greatly and i found myself running forward in my mind picking fights with some possib...	43
imported a london policeman to teach paris police the art of traffic but if so the instruction has been wasted this night was a of and people a paris guide one of the tribe that the morbid stranger through scenes that are evil and that i know from observation to be utterly vain approached us in the des with the suggest...	43
pity you you are degrading your life and your soul come now to morrow is sunday the church bells will be ringing go to church reform your life make a new start do you will never regret it your old mother will be so glad and your sister oh say said the man walking off you don t want a guide you want a church and he di...	43
certain mile a girl who he had informed me when we first came to paris had been one of the most interesting figures of the stage four or five years before she had held at the much the same position now recently attained by who was just then paris in other words she was the sensation of that stormy world of art and rom...	43
calling chat chat chat and asking how do you talk to a cat in french there was an open carriage which came for us at one into which we threw our fur coats and blankets and then climbed by degrees mile after mile up an exquisite slope by the side of a valley that gradually became a and at the bottom of which and a mount...	43
first luncheon at the was an excellent case in point being on the and being host to several was in the most of artistic moods he made up a of the most delicious of d which he insisted should never have been allowed to take the place of soup but which alas the custom of the time and the of which in this case was gray a...	43
many other places where great pleasure loving that the difference between the person who has something and the person who has nothing is one of intense desire and what for a better phrase i will i call a capacity to live the inner chambers of the were divided into two groups the outer being somewhat less decorated and ...	43
ribbon about its box stood looking about as if she expected to meet some one look at her commented with that biting little ha ha of his which involved the greatest depths of critical sarcasm imaginable there she is she s lost her last louis and she s looking for some one to pay for her dinner i had to smile to myself a...	43
have i shown myself i charged him with various crimes my lecture was interrupted by the arrival of rolls and coffee and we decided to take breakfast in the company of we knocked at his door there he was propped up in bed his face crowned by his black hair and set with those burning dark eyes a figure of almost classic...	43
principal looked out over the sea and of the wonderful view i was never weary the room had an oriental touch o a at forty and the white tables and black accorded ill with this still it offered that of service which only the french possess was for waiting for who had not arrived i was for eating as i was hungry finally ...	43
a man who could become so easily with life there you have it said sir pointing far down a green slope to where a shepherd was watching his sheep a cape coat over his arm a crooked staff in his hand there is your pastoral descended from the ancient to love nature but that would not bring him out here there is no d la at...	43
we would take tea at s we would not take tea at s we would dine at the we would not dine at the we would pay i forget how many louis and enter the chambers of the we would not do anything of the sort it was desired by that i should see the wonders of the sea walk with the waves the protecting wall it was desired by th...	43
with last year i thought she was living with this of a second individual my heaven how well she keeps up or this must be her first season here i have never seen her before two or three of these young would follow a woman all around the rooms watching her admiring her beauty quite as a might examine the fine points of...	43
a headache the only case that really interested me was the one containing a half dozen of large size i stood before their and dull muddy bronze green arms studded with i can imagine nothing so horrible as to be seized upon by one of these things and i fairly shivered as i stood in front of the case contemplated solemnl...	43
wait and would go i promptly gave him a for his trouble my pocket was with italian silver and paper five and ten pieces which i had secured the day before finally my train rolled in and i took one last look at the sea in the fading light and entered sir gave me parting instructions as to simple that i would find at dif...	43
i was confused by the thought of approaching difficulties presently a customs descended on me a large bearded individual who by signs made me understand that i had to go to the baggage car and open my trunk i went supplied the only light i felt as though i were in a s cave yet i came through well enough nothing was fo...	43
car the english lady left also and her husband remained to smoke he was not so very far removed from me but he came a little nearer and said the must have their striped churches and their wash lines or they wouldn t be happy it was some time before he volunteered another suggestion which was that the along this part of...	43
date there was a handsome car just leaving as i came out a wide shiny thing a stop at which illustrated just how fine cars can be even in italy i had learned from my that was on the i wanted to see the because of and coming from i had read the short history of given in its wars with the building of its cathedral it wa...	43
bom also they will once more have their tremendous cities and their great artistic in the bargain i think now that perhaps of all the lovely things i saw abroad the cathedral and tower and and of as they are in one lovely spacious area are the loveliest and most perfect of all it does not matter to me that the cathedra...	43
which are placed the and the outer walls are solid and decorated on the inside with those light colored of the pupils of the inner wall is full of arched pierced windows with many delicate columns through which you look to the green grass and the trees and the perfectly smooth ornamented dome at one end i have paid my ...	43

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