Word: milhampton
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...Stephen Dallas had been brought up to consider himself decidedly Somebody?one of the Redington Dallases?an old and respected family. When his father, having embezzled, committed suicide ?it rather knocked out the underpinning from Stephen. Being twentythree, he decided to bury himself in a Massachusetts factory-town, Milhampton. He was through with life...
Stella Martin was one of the Milhampton Martins?in polite language, nobody. Her people were " impossible "?she was the small-time belle of the factory district. She spent her time in doing her best to imitate in dress, manners and looks the fashionable ladies she read about in the society columns. She even managed to build an imitation pergola in the back yard and swung there, in a Gloucester hammock, hoping, for a duke. She had an insatiable instinct for what people with private incomes like to call "nice things." When Stephen came along, he checked completely with...
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