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The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in 1835, was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted...more

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Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic...more

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Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in New York. He had been living ever since his marri...more