Exits And Entrances; a book of Essays And Sketches
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You may investigate the life and customs of the finny tribes that revel in still water, forty thousand leagues under the sea. There is a museum at hand, reading and smoking rooms, a restaurant, perennial gardens, and foun- tains that play all the year round. The matin and evening sports present a continually varying bill : tumblers from the Parisian Circus, madrigal boys, ballets by baby dancers, hoitife singers, fancy shoot- ing by Texas Jacks and Buffalo Bills resplendent in buckskins and bea...dwork. The Aquarium is thronged from morning until midnight; it is a place of delights where, for the time, all worldly cares are forgotten, where the busy are comparatively idle, and where the idle are too busy to find time a burden. Passing into the street from the pleasure-house, we come at once upon a 151 152 EXITS AND ENTRANCES glorious monument of the past. It is a massive, melancholy structure, all the angles of which seem to have been softened by time. It is wrinkled, be- grimed, weather-beaten, storm-stained, isolated.
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