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AN AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE.
Eight flights of stairs, consisting alternately of eight and nine steps.
Amy had made the calculation, and wondered what was the cause of this arrangement.

The ascent was trying, but then no one could contest the respectability of the abode.

In the flat immediately beneath resided a successful musician, whose carriage and pair came at a regular hour each afternoon to take him and his wife for a most respectable drive.

In this special building no one else seemed at present to keep a carriage, but all the tenants were gentlefolk.
And as to living up at the very top, why, there were distinct advantages--as so many people of moderate income are nowadays hastening to discover.