Washington Square

was sixteen she ceased to grow, and her stature, like

properly made, and, fortunate

but I would not have answered for his philosophy if t

xion, in which white and red were very equally distributed, was, indeed, an excellent thing to

quiet, ladylike girl by those of the more imaginative sor

young lady--it was a good while before she could belie

is quite the ex

judgement in this matter was by no means infallib

nature to manifest itself; she sought to be eloquent in her garments, an

es it is certain that people were not to

d been making twenty thousand dollars a year by his profession, and laying aside the half of it-

emple of Republican simplicity, and Dr. Sloper would have been glad to see his d

ate, to think that a child of his s

considerable use of them; but he had a dread of vulgarity, and even

was carried by no means so high as at present, and Catherine's clever

t had scarcely as yet become a necessity of s

onable that a well-bred young woman shoul

e never ventured to expose it, and our heroine was twenty years old before she treated herself, for evening wear, to a

in spite of her taste for fine clothes, she had not a grain of coquetry, and her

is warrantable; it was in the royal raiment just mentioned that she pre

first year, and Mrs. Almond's party was

Dr. Sloper had moved his household

ngs and an enormous fanlight over the door, standing in a street within five minutes' wa

New York, thanks to the narrow channel in which it flows, it is obliged to do,

ighty uproar, which was music in the ears of all good citizens interested in th

ness, it might have been more immediate--and when most of his neighbours' dwellings (also ornamented with granite copings and large fanlights) had been co

ny before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of marble steps ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble. This structure, and many of its neighbours, whi

ing, which increased its rural and accessible appearance; and round the corner was the more august precinct of the Fift

of early associations, but this portion of New

long, shrill city; it has a riper, richer, more honourable look than any of the upper ramificat

agination and the infant palate; it was here that you took your first walks abroad, following the nursery-maid with unequal step and sniffing up the strange odour of the ailantus-trees which at that time formed the principal umbrage of the Square, and diffused an aroma that you were not ye

spent many years of her life; which is my

e city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (when there was one), and mingled thei

York street scenery; but they were to be found within the memory of midd

unt Almond's children, who ended by being nine in

ghly educated, and a person who lived in the intimacy of their Aunt Penniman had something of reflect

rs after her husband's death, and then suddenly appeared one morning with pink roses in her cap--wer

ssive air of expecting subtle things of them, so that going to see her w

rine's existence, and not a part of its essence, and that when the girl came to spend a S

y arrived at, and for several years Cath

ds were boys, and Catherine had a preference for those

rousers began to lengthen, and the wearers

atherine, and the boys were sent to

ry punctually, and the other

event that Mrs. Almond gave th

young stockbroker, a boy of twenty