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Excerpt from Poor People: A Novel It is an old tenement, drab, cheerless, and dreary; innumerable the rains and the winds that have beaten and browned its forlorn frame; endless the sordid tragedies that have strutted with buskined foot gloomily across its narrow stage; and the petty comedies of three generations have awakened hollow laughter in its grimy halls. Comic enough may seem those tragedies, and tragic enough those comedies now that the chief actors have turned to dust, and sock and buskin lie shapeless and indistinguishable in the all-enshrouding mould; useless the mocking mummery of mask and masqueraders alike; of little avail the smiling face the soul-sick jester wore; idle the care-furrowed brow feigned by the haughty mien laughing in the sombre sleeve of black, now that through the glass of eternity, wherein the true is determined from the false, the tenement reviews the passing pageantry of the past. 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.