"Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this devil's garret!"

“你们知道，”父亲接着说，“在这鬼窝窝洞里，冷得象狗一样。”

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It was whisperingly asserted that footsteps, in the dead of night, HAD been heard descending the garret stairs, and patrolling the house.

人们交头接耳，言之凿凿地说，半夜三更听见顶楼楼梯上有脚步声下来，还在宅子里四处巡游呢。

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Once I woke in an awful fright—it seemed to me that the calling was right there in the garret!

有一次，我给狠狠地吓醒了——我觉得那喊声好像就在阁楼里！

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Does that mean can you no longer be a struggling writer in a garret?

BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript

Imagine, for a moment, an obscure scribbler today in a garret somewhere trying to outline an ideology of the future that could provide a realistic path toward a world with healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.

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While the hotel interiors, library and rooms were designed by grand master Jacques Garcia to have Parisian flair (many have a claw foot tub in the room, faux garret-style), it is the restaurant that is getting a lot of early buzz, with rave reviews already coming from the New York Times and top food blogs.

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