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Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 5 · 5,532 sentences
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Subjects: New York (N.Y.) — Fiction · Short stories
Words worth knowing: flyer · caparison · clarion · milkman · sooty · caldron · doughnut · coop
HE WHISPERED, EXTENDING BOTH HANDS AND SMILING AT HER UNTIL ALL HIS TEETH SHOWED " 328 "I WENT OVER TO LOO'S, AND WE STAYED UP AND TALKED SO LATE--I DIDN'T KNOW--" " 360 JUST AROUND THE CORNER POWER AND HORSE-POWER In the Knockerbeck Hotel there are various parlors; Pompeian rooms lined in marble and pillared in chaste fluted columns; Louis Quinze corners, gold-leafed and pink-brocaded, principally furnished with a spindly-legged Vernis-Martin cabinet and a large French clock in the form of a celestial sphere surmounted by a gold cupid.
There are high-ceilinged rendezvous rooms, with six arm and two straight chairs chased after the manner of Gouthiere, and a series of small inlaid writing-desks, generously equipped for an avidious public to whom the crest-embossed stationery of a four-dollar-a-day-up hotel suggests long-forgotten friends back home.
Just off the lobby is the Oriental room, thick with arabesque hangings and incense and distinguished by the famous pair of Chinese famille rose mandarin jars, fifty-three inches high and enameled with Hoho birds and flowers.
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