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"A small boy . . . stood surveying them with great composure"
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"Securely entrenched behind the lace curtain, she levelled her glass"[61]
"She sank into a chair"[109]
"James Mandeville's taste was exacting"[194]

The
Pleasant Street Partnership

A Neighborhood Story

CHAPTER FIRST

A WAVE OF IMPROVEMENT

Pleasant Street was regarded by the Terrace as merely an avenue of approach to its own exclusive precincts. That Pleasant Street came to an end at the Terrace seemed to imply that nothing was to be gained by going farther; and if you desired a quiet, substantial neighborhood,—none of your showy modern houses on meagre lots, but spacious dwellings, standing well apart from each other on high ground,—you found it here.