Which is all very good.ĭella finished her cry and dried her cheeks with a rag cloth. But whenever Mr James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called “Jim” and greatly hugged by Mrs James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of reducing it to a modest and unassuming D. The “Dillingham” had been included during former good times when its owner was being paid $30 per week. Underneath it was a card bearing the name “Mr James Dillingham Young.” In the lobby below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and a doorbell that didn’t work. A furnished flat at $8 per week that said poor very effectively.
While the mistress of the home is gradually going through these stages of sadness, take a look at the home. Which makes you think that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles most common.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and weep. Pennies saved one and two at a time by negotiating hard with the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until your cheeks burned with the embarrassment of poverty that such haggling implied.
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