The Elevator
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William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.
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The Elevator - William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells
The Elevator
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066221775
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: Through the curtained doorway of Mrs. Edward Roberts’s pretty drawing-room, in Hotel Bellingham, shows the snowy and gleaming array of a table set for dinner, under the dim light of gas-burners turned low. An air of expectancy pervades the place, and the uneasiness of Mr. Roberts, in evening dress, expresses something more as he turns from a glance into the dining-room, and still holding the portière with one hand, takes out his watch with the other.
Mr. Roberts to Mrs. Roberts entering the drawing-room from regions beyond: My dear, it’s six o’clock. What can have become of your aunt?
Mrs. Roberts, with a little anxiety: That was just what I was going to ask. She’s never late; and the children are quite heart-broken. They had counted upon seeing her, and talking Christmas a little before they were put to bed.
Roberts: Very singular her not coming! Is she going to begin standing upon ceremony with us, and not come till the hour?
Mrs. Roberts: Nonsense, Edward! She’s been detained. Of course she’ll be here in a moment. How impatient you are!
Roberts: You must profit by me as an awful example.
Mrs. Roberts, going about the room, and bestowing little touches here and there on its ornaments: If you’d had that new cook to battle with over this dinner, you’d have learned patience by this time without any awful example.
Roberts, dropping nervously into the nearest chair: I hope she isn’t behind time.
Mrs. Roberts, drifting upon the sofa, and disposing her train effectively on the carpet around her: She’s before time. The dinner is in the last moment of ripe perfection now, when we must still give people fifteen minutes’ grace.
She studies the convolutions of her train absent-mindedly.
Roberts, joining in its perusal: Is that the way you’ve arranged to be sitting when people come in?
Mrs. Roberts: Of course not. I shall get up to receive them.
Roberts: That’s rather a pity. To destroy such a lovely pose.
Mrs. Roberts: Do you like it?
Roberts: It’s divine.
Mrs. Roberts: You might throw me a kiss.
Roberts: "No; if it happened to strike on that train anywhere, it might spoil one of the