Beasley's Christmas Party

By: Tarkington, Booth

The maple bordered street was as still as a country Sunday; so quiet that there seemed an echo to my footsteps. It was four o'clock in the morning; clear October moonlight misted through the thinning foliage to the shadowy sidewalk and lay like a transparent silver fog upon the house of my admiration, as I strode along, returning from my first night's work on the "Wainwright Morning Despatch." I had already marked that house as the finest to my taste in Wainwright, though hitherto, on my excursions to this metropolis, the state capital, I was not without a certain native jealousy that Spencerville, the county-seat where I lived, had nothing so good. Now, however, I approached its purlieus with a pleasure in it quite unalloyed, for I was at last myself a resident albeit of only one day's standing of Wainwright, and the house though I had not even an idea who lived there part of my possessions as a citizen. Moreover, I might enjoy the warmer pride of a next-door-neighbor, for Mrs. Apperthwaite's, where I had taken a room, was just beyond.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08JHXH1X9
• ISBN13: 9798687928922
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"