. St. Nicholas [serial]. SQUARELY ON HIS It was one of those real-life Christmas days,and Queerin Place was apparently trying torun in from Sixth Avenue out of the wet, trust-ing to its small size to prevent any rain fromfalling upon it. Queerin Place should never bein bustling, busy New York, even in the finestweather; it is a brief little place, slanting-westward from the big thoroughfare in the biasfashion characteristic of Greenwich Village andits neighborhood, and it looks precisely like aplace in a Dickens story, with its uniform rowof little brick houses, its solitary lamp-post,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. SQUARELY ON HIS It was one of those real-life Christmas days,and Queerin Place was apparently trying torun in from Sixth Avenue out of the wet, trust-ing to its small size to prevent any rain fromfalling upon it. Queerin Place should never bein bustling, busy New York, even in the finestweather; it is a brief little place, slanting-westward from the big thoroughfare in the biasfashion characteristic of Greenwich Village andits neighborhood, and it looks precisely like aplace in a Dickens story, with its uniform rowof little brick houses, its solitary lamp-post,straggling vines, and miniature front yards. Ithas a prison on one hand, it is true, but it is farand away from having a palace on the other;and in no other way than the prison on onehand does it suggest anything Venetian. There was nothing to distinguish the bass-viol players house from its neighbors; but toBeth Esling, the bass-viol players little grand-daughter, it had a distinct personality, the inde-finable something that makes ones home l
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