Excerpt from Doctor Bryson: A Novel
The day, indeed, may be said to begin at eleven o'clock night, when, the janitor arriving, followed by a brigade of scrub-women, turns on the incandescent bulbs hot yet from the work of the evening, and the big room and its fellows are beaten, scrubbed, cleansed, and disinfected for the work of the new day.
In the morning at one o'clock the preparations are complete and the receiving-room naps. At three o'...
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