For it must be understood that the comparative desirability of different parts of Boston for residence depended then, not on natural features, but on the character of the neighboring population.

Each class or nation lived by itself, in quarters of its own.

A rich man living among the poor, an educated man among the uneducated, was like one living in isolation among a jealous and alien race.

When the house had been begun, its completion by the winter of 1886 had been expected.

The spring of the following year found it, however, yet incomplete, and my marriage still a thing of the future.