The Mansion: With Illus, By Elizabeth Shippen Green

THERE was an air of calm
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and reserved opulence about
the Weightman mansion that
spoke not of money squandered,
but of wealth prudently applied.
Standing on a comer of the Avenue no
longer fashionable for residence, it looked
upon the swelling tide of business with
an expression of complacency and halfdisdain.
The house was not beautiful. There was
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