#15 The Skylight Room (1906)- O Henry
We are in a tenement, an SRO, or some such poor New York
City dwelling. All the characters are
here—the haughty penny-pinching landlady, the nosy neighbors, the quiet
observer, the amorous less-than-well-meanings suitors.
We follow a star gazing innocent typist that is too poor to
eat. She curiously names a star she sees through the skylight Billy
Jackson. When she passes out from
starvation, the medic that saves her shares the same name as her gaurdian
star. Coincidence?
The word lambrequin is used in this story, it’s a small
piece of jewelry hanging on the wall or above a door in decoration. I think this piece is a lambrequin. It’s a small piece that you could just as
easily pass by, or if it happened to catch your eye could linger in your head
for a while, but in the end, its just decoration.
Notable passage: “Your hand crept to your throat, you
gasped, you looked up as from a well- and breathed once more. Through the glass
of the little skylight you saw a square of blue infinity.”
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