The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A NovelIt was one of the top-floor-rear flats in the Wyandotte,...
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Author: Phillips, David Graham,1867-1911
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The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel

BD$6.63

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel

BD$6.63
Author: Phillips, David Graham,1867-1911
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel

It was one of the top-floor-rear flats in the Wyandotte, not merely biggest of Washington's apartment hotels, but also "most exclusive"which is the elegant way of saying most expensive. The Wyandotte had gone up before landlords grasped the obvious truth that in a fire-proof structure locations farthest from noise and dust should and could command highest prices; so Joshua Craig's flat was the cheapest in the house. The ninety dollars a month loomed large in his eyes, focused to little-town ideas of values; it was, in fact, small for shelter in "the DE LUXE district of the DE LUXE quarter," to quote Mrs. Senator Mulvey, that simple, far-Western soul, who, finding snobbishness to be the chief distinguishing mark of the Eastern upper classes, assumed it was a virtue, acquired it laboriously, and practiced it as openly and proudly as a preacher does piety. Craig's chief splendor was a sitting-room, called a parlor and bedecked in the red plush and Nottingham that represent hotel men's probably shrewd guess at the traveling public's notion of interior opulence. Next the sitting-room, and with the same dreary outlook, or, rather, downlook, upon disheveled and squalid back yards, was a dingy box of a bedroom. Like the parlor, it was outfitted with furniture that had degenerated upward, floor by floor, from the spacious and luxurious first-floor suites. Between the two rooms, in dark mustiness, lay a bathroom with suspicious-looking, wood-inclosed plumbing; the rusted iron of the tub peered through scuffs and seams in the age-grayed porcelain. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 4929
Author: Phillips, David Graham
Release Date: Jan 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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