| | 1 | Author: | Norris, Frank | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Pit: A Story of Chicago / By Frank Norris  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At eight o'clock in the inner vestibule of the
Auditorium Theatre by the window of the box office,
Laura Dearborn, her younger sister Page, and their
aunt—Aunt Wess'—were still waiting for the rest of
the theatre-party to appear. A great, slow-moving
press of men and women in evening dress filled the
vestibule from one wall to another. A confused murmur
of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all
sides, while from time to time, when the outside and
inside doors of the entrance chanced to be open
simultaneously, a sudden draught of air gushed in,
damp, glacial, and edged with the penetrating keenness
of a Chicago evening at the end of February. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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