Sinópse: Excerpt from No; 26 Jayne Street The lease was signed on the 23d of February, in Pepe Brothers’ basement office, at the right-hand corner of the Square where you turn into it from Macdougal Street and Fourth Avenue. Between pride of possession and the difficulty of ex plaining the matter satisfactorily to the Aunts, Neith was conscious of a note of flatness in the determined resistance of Pepe Brothers to any sort of pleasantness between themselves and their client, which might be brought up against them in the ever-present possibility of deferred payments. Once, however, she was away from the crabbed atmosphere of the renting office, Neith gave rein to exhilaration. It was all rather formless and out of proportion to the occasion. There was little in the leasing of three rooms with bath and kitchenette at twenty-six Jayne Street, which should have carried such a lift with it, particularly as one of the rooms, except for a narrow slit of half walled-up window, was dark, and the plumbing doubt ful. But for a month or six weeks past the fringes of Neith Schuyler’s consciousness had been stirred by the Wind before the Morning. Premonitions of form andorder were making their way toward her across the social confusions which, ever since the first week in August, 1914, had wrapped her like a cloud. The taking of the lease had been an almost instinctive movement of her rather shy soul to be alone with the approaching guest. 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.