He slept in the cellar of one of its poorest tenement houses, and lived in the gutters.
Horrible filth festered in the dammed-up gutters. The whole atmosphere teemed with desolation.
Daddy came right back into the house and called up the men who had put in the new shiny tin gutters.
The men made quite a lot of noise with their hammers, for they were putting new gutters around the eaves, and pounding upon tin makes a great deal of noise.
Sometimes of a morning, after a very vivid dream of the alleys, cellars and gutters, ragpickers, newsboys, and beggars of New York, she would open her eyes upon her own comfortable chamber, with its glowing fire and crimson curtains, and bright mirror crowning the walnut bureau between them, she would jump up and gaze wildly around, not remembering where she was or how she came thither.