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The great apartment house in which the Jacks lived was not one of those structures which give to the Island of Manhattan its startling and fabulous quality--those cloud-soaring spires whose dizzy vertices and clifflike facades seem to belong to the sky rather than to the earth.
These are the special shapes which flash in the mind of a European when he thinks about New York, and which in-bound travellers, looking from a liner's deck, see in all their appalling and inhuman loveliness sustained there lightly on the water. This building was none of these.