Excerpt from The Lodger Overhead, and Others So far as I can judge, most of us on this particular side street, always excepting those at the two homes of the aristocrats, lead pretty much the same kind of life - that is, so far as our meals are concerned. For breakfast we depend on our visiting valets and colored maids, and for luncheon and dinner we go to the Hofbrauhaus or to the restaurant around the corner on Broadway. Of course, there are many and brilliant exceptions to this regime; quite frequently at night a grande dame, usually accompanied by a jeune fills, from one of the two exclusive homes, drives away in the family coach, and hardly a night passes that a hansom or a glistening brougham does not dash around the corner at our end of the street and stop before one or another of the dark, fore boding, brownstone fronts. A young man, in evening clothes, jumps lightly out, throws away his cigarette, and disappears in the dark vestibule at the t0p of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.