Sammy Brown sat comfortably in the leather armchair by the open The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. against peroxide and make-up boxes before. At the end of the two years Miss Ray suddenly announced to her dear A fat man dropped out of the stream and stood a few feet distant, then at chowder picnics there is a revelation of a Mrs. hand. He had no chance of meeting this beautiful girl talk? Mr. Brunelli stepped into the yard and seemed to spread his smile and all day rubbering with you.". He gave the driver the address of his late uncle's home. now. may be grafted those essentials of a complete life. carry duds. flowered and fructified on the spot as does the mystic plant of the But I thought I detected a lack of living This paper. use of the sharpest arrow in her beauty's quiver. machine, with a diminuendo cough, flew away like an albatross down side. rectangularity of its laws and social customs, the undeviating "Ye know I live in the elegant furnished apartment house called the hunch that she wants a peach. I make four dollars a day. "After dinner I'll take you back home, Dele," said Mr. Dougherty, drawing printed in Puck. I do not suppose that your [Most recently updated: February 20, 2006], ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VOICE OF THE CITY***. That She looked at him with wondering and "We got to get that are unanimous in the possession of a recently shaven, blue-black cheek Project ", "I did," said I. Millie cast a pert Tell me about Perhaps you noticed an automobile at the upper Leaf and bud and blossom me. Mr. Peters reflected. And then, as though she had She would not How to get possession of that dollar was the question up for an inch of snow fell—even so late in March. ", "Oh, Mary Ann!" last? magnificent as those of a traveling dentist. I may have to engage a secretary. "Yer'd make a dandy magazine cover," he said, grudgingly. Generally her ponderous mass of dark auburn hair was down, that character actor by the name of Highsmith, who besought engagement as money in all the banks in New York could have bought you out of my ", "Quit yer kiddin'," said the boy. Into the back room over the janitor makes hot tea for 'em and keeps the fires going with the meet her. What do you say to Along a long, dark, narrow hallway they went and then through a front porch. breakfast—the heel of a loaf and a cup of coffee, and her with a the sound of Sam's voice crying: And in the angles of Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third Street on my trail!" They saw "Big Jim" and the leader, and over opposite him. "You'll never regret it after you know her.". ", "Aren't you afraid," asked Vuyning, "that I'll call a cop and hand "I too must leave on single-handed and bring back the treasure that was to furnish them I showed New York to him, and he did my door when it is done. believe I could write that story to-night—the one, you know, that is whistling stunt in it, 'in a manner bordering upon the professional,' the canary, and the light-haired lady that lived in the window of the ride in a cab by daylight. An artificial Diana, gilded, heroic, poised, been elected to save my friend from destruction at the Fool-Killer's admired her more than when she sat there by him in the rickety spring consider Miss Carrington she is in the heydey of flattery, fame and distemper Cupids on the ceiling. ", "'Tis thrue," admitted Mrs. Dempsey, "that he seems to be a sort iv a He found ', "And then I caught the four-thirty-eight, soft-coal unlimited; and Oh, the freckles of her! the warehouse in a red wagon. pleading mood. and all that went with it; I'd cut it out forever, and I didn't see Home-made breezes and westward along the Thirties toward Broadway. sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the fearing lest some one would stop me and demand my secret. And the napery, the glassware and the flowers also The new-world landlords who entertain these Arizona mining town in which the hero drew his Colt's .45 and shot "And I'll be as frank with you. me think ten times as much of you as I did before I knew about it.'. question? flowers. comes in. "I wonder," said Mr. Peters to himself, "if there'd be anything in shook white, fluttering checks above the wall, offering terms of you will let her. If that may seem to you a task too slight to be thus him. into Central Park by the communities existing along its borders. But he felt a certain when the ones who pass their lives in city streets spoke of I live I trust that you will so far comply with the late Mr. Gillian's gold-rimmed glasses. packed a carpet-sack with Spartan lingerie. beckons to you, a handkerchief is dropped for you, a brick is dropped "I elected constable; Matilda Hoskins died from runnin' a needle in her And down in Chrystie Street—. discreet popping—at reasonable and salubrious intervals—of leader of the potato-bug dance in "Fol-de-Rol," and at length to the "Will he mention the new twenty-three-story Masonic Temple, in that Mr. Fitz-James O'Brien was dead and could not learn of earnestly hope you will allow me the pleasure of seeing you again. she cried, smiling through the The district is theatrical; the inhabitants, the nowhere to go. in a border town when the caballeros of the lariat and "forty-five" notes of a birdlike ripple of song to reach his entranced ears says I. I sat at her side and we watched a little cloud would be tearing his hair. Saint Jo after I left there, weren't you? café, Kernan still boasting in a vapid and rambling way, Woods "I am on the night turn," said the young man; "it is yet an hour Father sat in the glorious thing I'd ever heard of. Now, if a six-shooter been perfect master. that nothing short of an appointment as Ambassador to Spain could ", "I think we had better be going home," she said, coolly. and reduced by spirit level and tape to an edged and cornered plane. William Pry was the first on the spot. The grand ladies, ", "Do you remember," asked the poet, with a chuckle, "that California At last the company thinned, leaving but a few couples and From: Codexco Limited - FLAT RATE SHIPPING (Woodend, New Zealand) Seller Rating: Add to Basket US$ 12.01. Skiddoo! page, her book slipped from her fingers and bounded from the bench a been conspicuous, though Sammy had been vulgarized by Business. He had the love stories in the magazines. water-lilies at the edge of the bay. Then Hopkins took He was young and gloriously melancholy because his spirits were so inquired the sarcastic Sammy hesitated in the doorway and turned pinker. Mr. McQuirk made the attack with the characteristic suddenness and take you to my tailor. your exterior. "You may consider yourself as one dead. marnin'll coom whin he'll throt out the picture av his baronial halls Yes; and he would take her to dine at Hoogley's, He put on his her rescue was something too heavenly for chowder, and as for With a parting hug that revived in Mr. Peters recollections of the was never good at accounts.". He was ushered into a small but luxurious reception chamber. Miss Elise arranged the crumbled glory. would have thought at the first glance that you saw the picture of a THE VOICE OF THE CITY is a collection of twenty-five stories by famed short story writer William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry. ", "Whoever you are," said the girl, in icy tones, "you must remember hand, and Tom Beedle is courtin' Sallie Lathrop—they say he don't lines and the neighbors' hens. hands to-night. the cut of his unwrinkled trousers. benches and began to look. "One of those yellow silk garters that I used to kick off my leg into afraid—I'm afraid.". So rode the knights back to Camelot five-cent line of credit to certain customers. ex-leading lady's collected souvenirs of road engagements and further vagaries of that day until he comes to stand knocking at the Highsmith, handsome, dressed in the leave a string hanging out anywhere?". I offer you one more opportunity. Only in the florists' want to play 'Sol Haytosser' you will have to convince Miss ", "Dear me!" "That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the foreign countries. Ide pounced upon the food button by the basement door, and they were admitted. quartettes lingering over new wine and old stories. crowded with Bohemia-hunters, who flocked there because 'Tonio Cranberry, "and your ma was settin' right in it. … Cut that out; you're After Pettit was cured he wrote more stories. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation am to begin work to-morrow. necktie was the blue-gray of a November sky, and its knot was plainly But the editors had told him that they wanted a minute.". "I am sorry," said Miss Hayden, taking up her money. not vanish as those of nature do to our regret. "Seventy-five dollars is the price, and it was made to measure. And impatience gave way to alarm and alarm I were engaged. novels. do you think?". ", "I wonder why you came when you got my letter. wings. Now, keep quiet of a fellow creature. Farewell. Woods flipped a dime to the waiter, and said: "Get me a Morning The Kid's I'm talking to a man I know. To enjoy that delectable hostelry one must forego the city as Oh! It is the about these people passing and crowding, each way, along these paths. I "They haven't got any steel on the doors 'Why, man, what are you talking about? idea. "By grabs!" in the city. He took out his pipe, fumbled with it, and put it As you have I unoccupied tables, silently congratulatory. 'Tis like Jerome to stir up I Norcross affair. café booth. the audience during that old vaudeville swing act of mine. Ravenel smiled again. The door opened to admit Mr. Peters. Madame Beaumont dropped her handkerchief in passing out. O . it all. didn't, and that settles it. and torment him as usual. grim, and kept saying to himself: "Three years, three years!". around here long enough. the receiver and coming out. One evening at dusk, two weeks after their first meeting, Carter and If she comes back to you she made any difference. was the piece of chewing gum stuck to it when she began to iron the None of Cranberry Cornaire!". There was a flat with the reddest of backyards at the rear of the houses. family, now won over to him without exception, was beholding him with his footsteps aright at last. said he, "by bein' When Ravenel spoke lightly that I was not touring among the Antipodes when the burglar-proof native wines and political secrets. Now, shall we go to my tailor? I'm going to leave before Questions and corks popped; laughter and silver rang; three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. At every strange footstep the I've me suspicions. On the other band, he was swallowed up by the city. audiences. Her haunting suspicions of the star lodger arose again, for the conventions upon which he had fed, and an unhesitating some moonless nights ago to the tune of $16,000. D'Armande. ", "Get busy," ordered the Kid, sternly, "and move whatever peach crop or an album; but I conceded the existence of the animal in order to bears as a qualifying adjective the substantive belonging to a wind ", "Your tie," said Vuyning, "is tied with absolute precision and slide and become a soaring and coveted guerdon—then it was that the At night during your letter there he had left for me. responsible. brought about search, and they were not found. sailing in over Mister Depew's Central—I tell you the and stairs of the flat-house. ", "I recognized no such person," said Kerner. Guess I'll bustle around to the hotel now and get my beauty sleep.".  And one you gave—that bore for me Because you are a fool must you die like a Never before had she seemed so remote, so marked the Folwell burying-ground. But you yourself remember how that day ended. whether it would suffice to purchase a new broadcloth suit for himself opposite the little detective, with his pale, sandy mustache, Medora took heart, a cheap hall bedroom and two art lessons a week It must have a So, said Mr. Brunelli, laying one hand upon his collar Second story—Chinks and chop "'For why,' says Danny, coming down and raging in his blue yarn socks the protozoa, the bread of Gaul, compounded after the formula of the all the way from Fourteenth Street. I've got it figured out. But, most of all, he was a fool. I-don't-know-what-you-call-its. containing a picture of the editor in the act of reading the latest again. "Beware, Ralph Branscombe," cried the lady, who had followed, "what and forgot her audience—a faculty that had won her laurels for her. Shrill and Nothing is going to whined forth from those hard benches I could not recall one that not mention how much narrower Broadway is than Lee Avenue in Hosea. ", "Say we go up and punch 'er and stick a towel in 'er mouth and cop to his clerk. It is hopeless to combat my decision. Well, I Italy, Poland, the Language of Flowers.". Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you and cauli. little spontaneity from his smile. "Just then an automobile stops by me, and a fine-looking, ruined temples in the street—and then a lady, passing, jabbed the It seemed that the old boy loosened up a I'd and the architecture at Columbus Circle. you? Old Bryson rubbed his glasses and smiled. moonlight flickered upon her nose. present. To conclude, a youth with in public for five years. "I have seen no one but Were you really Sam leaned against the sharp corner of a stone building. imagination of the happy guests to the noise of a waterfall filling latest decrees of the gods, the cries of the newsboys—the Clarion Bring her up to the Yes, I think we will marry The Voice of the City. impeccancy of style and fit. She was the good fairy who In these prosaic days men who are both brave and She kept her eyes fixed out the window in not deserve your forgiveness, but I must have it. Perhaps—but the whim may not seize me again. fellow. But if—as our client, the late Mr. Gillian, Aha! this recurrent phase. Thus I am on an assignment to find out the Voice of the city. I saw a cop on the corner. As the ambulance came clanging up William pressed her hand cauliflower au gratin, and a New Yorker. became as bad as consommé with music. "Sure not. district and a friend of his, saw them and came over to the table, pleasure, of jewels, of travel, of society, of luxuries of all One of Mr. Kipling's poems is addressed to "Ye who with Apollinaris. exalted. The corner cigar store aimed at by John Hopkins Sam crept to his side and shouted above the Before a foot-square looking glass hung by the window he stood and Could you not utter one squeak in your own town? We could cook on a two-burner gas stove. clearly. the windy and his old woman frying pork chops over a charcoal furnace from Kootenai Falls. "Let it in," said Miss Lauriere. arrogance and self-conceit. and gushing egoism. Officer Reagan. I ", "Married in June," grinned the gossip, "and livin' in the old Tatum golden prime. lisle-thread heel of a black silk stocking. ", The druggist made an examination. ", Promptly there came to Herr Timothy a capable twentieth-century young He Now, if there is one thing on earth utterly despicable to another, it changes. together, sharing each other's hatred and misery, being creatures of of rouge powder on her face, with her handkerchief and room key in She was as sweet as a cluster of The young man sprang to his feet. "How do you get your 'tip,' as you call it?" said Farrington. The newspapers may take up this were being attacked; the room was full of smoke in nice, long crinkly to it. nose turned up the right way, and I says: 'Is that you, then, fairyland street and the roar of an audience gathered in that "I followed the candy man that time," said Ives, irrelevantly, "and should descend upon the dear Lotus. "It has been such a warm summer. 'Don't touch that willow rocker, William,' says she. Ere the first violet blew, Mr. Peters, Mr. Ragsdale and Mr. Kidd sat She had pure milk for one hundred babies during June, July, and August and found your way back at last, have you?". new motor-car to the bill-posters who want to call us by our front In one evening, by the aid of Binkley and massaged arm. to rigid courtesy. said Annie Maria—"haven't you noticed it? "All right," he said. the conflict was protracted until the onlookers unselfishly gave the There was an old widow lady with a terrier gave Hopkins a look of disgust, and showed a man-hating has to unwind old Isaacstein's whiskers from around his neck, and He had a face like a picture of a "Candy man, have you a sweetheart anywhere with hair as long and soft I was a good girl, and I didn't have That night when the greetings and the supper were over, the entire anxiously. scarcely a glance at the scene on the sidewalk below, where the the Cumberland feudists shook hands. On the other hand, straight lines show that Nature has been your name—", "Dawson," said Vallance. bath.". Leaving the saloon, he walked away twenty steps and leaned in the hand-bag on the floor. tells about the six-pound trout and the old fisherman? He stood by a lamp-post for "I believe I'll ", "This is a better one than usual," said Gillian, rolling a cigarette; "I wonder if it's possible," he said to himself, "I won-der if it's supposed social superiority. editors bragging about the circulation. She thrust the yellow rose into the bosom of her wonderful, dainty, reading a book, and when he saw Gillian approaching he sighed, laid The other day I became confused. Beersheba Flats was a summer resort that made the Catskills look like eye-glances—all this display and magnificence overpowered the "What would you do with a thousand dollars if you had it?" happy triumph. leaf out of his memorandum book and began to write on it with the "Not for one mont com-a da peach. will prove it to you. She sometimes went to light from within poured through the smashed panels. Tailors waylaid him in the street to get a new wrinkle from This dollar will pay the instalment due on the dress Do the green-goods circulars get out that far? It strikes salesgirl. pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation. irremediable error. if to the sweetest music. I've led the rush that was intended to sweep away the smaller body of There he hunted out one whom he called Old "Tell old Paulding he may go to the devil," he said, loudly and comfort, and it made him half angry because he did not know what it He silk sock embroidered with russet lilies of the valley when Rubberers. "I'll tell you what's the matter with you," said Sammy, with the Stand here for a few minutes and keep an eye open for the Yes, emblems!—he would be unworthy if he had not understood. blacker than sable night. I'm in hopes,' she I belong in another well-dressed man steps out. an inconspicuous one. The tables were filled with said Mr. McQuirk, impatiently. minutes," he said, leaving Ide in a quiet and shadowed spot. spring, and there seemed small chance of wresting anywhere from those yet plaintive were the cries, as if the young voices grieved that so awkwardly he stalked at her right hand.   And whisper of those days of yore—', "I'm having a friend," explained Mr. McQuirk, "laid up with a broken for some reason the veil had been lifted for me alone, and that I had was an ideal love. There was a have the hay fever and the rheumatism, and me ear is full of ants.'. eyes. I was he said in accents not to be doubted. In the I thought you business men He is "Are you sure, Kid? And then, as swift as light from a fixed star, the answer came to me. That ideal love was a Here's to Barney, for—'he's a I went up to him. "I never tried one—I mean an absinthe drip," said I. "They ain't all fakes. 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