Little girl bouncing a red ball9/20/2023 ![]() She had used to jump and yell, “I want to go to New York now!” like a silly thing whenever her parents had talked about going north. She remembered how the name of New York had excited her when she heard it at home. Where the water kept running down with a spooky ![]() There are lots of big buildings like this in New York.”Įlspeth turned back, quelled. Where’d you get that idea? It’s just a big apartment house. Through her sleepiness last night when they arrived Elspeth had remembered the coloured glass in the windows of a door downstairs. “Mother, is this house a church?” Elspeth asked anxiously. It was not a definite smell such as she had noticed in certain people’s houses. Elspeth could tell that many other people had lived here before them. Yet beneath the breakfast smell was the smell of the room itself, an unfriendly and mixed-up smell of sweetness like ladies’ perfume and powder, the clothiness of carpets and upholstery and the hot paint from the radiator. The coffee smelled shiny black, she could taste the bacon in the air. ![]() Everything they had this morning was boughten and very expensive. It was thick because they were in New York. It was no use for her mother to pretend that the cream just happened to be thick this morning.
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