Bruno's Weekly, Vol. 1: November, 1915-June, 1916 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Bruno's Weekly, Vol. 1: November, 1915-June, 1916

This stately room and two spaces partitioned from it, had been her home for eleven years. They were close to Way erly Place, in Greenwich Village - that one corner of relic slaughtering New York that retains reminders of the dignified gentility of a century ago. Here Eleventh and Fourth streets. Refusing to be separated by arithmetical arrangement, meet at an unexpected point as if to shake hands, and Waverly Place sticks its head in where some other street ought to be, for all the world like a village busybody who has to see what is happening around the corner.

The place is two-toned in a most striking way: Along the streets that have survived impairment are lines of sedate, prosperous homes, many of them occupied by descendants of their builders and as conservatively American as any town in New England; there are other streets where decadent mansions are rented out in bare floors, even rooms, and house a curious, secretive and constantly shifting population. Here one meets wrecks from strange pasts; walking sorrows with memories for companions; eyes that seem looking into graves; patrician voices often in strange tongues; beautiful hands in old gloves; proud, gray heads under old bonnets. The old Village holding back from the shrieking rush of progress, has an affinity with these aimless, broken beings. They float in and out like spoil on the tides.

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