Neighbors – Text
NEIGHBORS
BY MAS H
When I saw
my own,
were to be
set well back from the road
were to care nothing whatever
which
For my part, I like to see
; but each has his own unaccountable taste.
I congratulated myself
evidently
It was understood in the village
(For obvious reasons I refrain from naming names.)
That, apparently, was what they desired,
I saw a great deal of my neighbors, nevertheless.
I caught
frequent glimpses
I uses to linger
and listen
at some window upstairs,
There was a queerness, a sort of mystery, about this
Of course,
at this time
suppositions
have well been pleased if
not overhung
my eyes open later in the season,
some,
difference between
very strongly developed
sufficiently magnanimous not
sinister impressions
for I desire a gossip.
against the persons
definite to say. My interest in them was—
burning low
After a while I missed my occasional glimpses
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