Outwardly you may be on friendly terms
with the people next door, but, if the truth {{U}}(1) {{/U}} known, you
would not think much of them. Their ways may be {{U}}(2) {{/U}} enough,
but they are not your ways. It is not hatred, far {{U}}(3) {{/U}} envy;
neither is it contempt exactly. Only you do not understand why they live as they
{{U}}(4) {{/U}}. You judge people by their social background. They were
not brought up as you were—not that they are to blame {{U}}(5) {{/U}}
that, but certain advantages that you had were {{U}}(6) {{/U}} by them.
Rude noises come from that house next door that you would not {{U}}(7)
{{/U}} from respectable people. Laughter late {{U}}(8) {{/U}} night,
when you want to sleep—how coarse door always {{U}}(9) {{/U}}, and what
a variety of songs! Why do they never try a new one? There {{U}}(10)
{{/U}} be new songs from time to time but you {{U}}(11) {{/U}} hear
them next door. Then there is that young woman who sings! What voices the people
next door have. After a song is {{U}}(12) {{/U}} it goes on next door. A
popular song never dies: The people next door rescue it after it has been
hounded off the street and warm it into {{U}}(13) {{/U}} life. And so it
goes. Everything they do shows just what sort of people they are. {{U}}(14)
{{/U}} at the things they hang out in their garden. If your things looked
like that you would at {{U}}(15) {{/U}} keep them indoors. It is not
that they are so old, but they were chosen with {{U}}(16) {{/U}}
monstrously bad taste m the first place. {{U}}(17) {{/U}} in the world
do people want to {{U}}(18) {{/U}} a house with things like that for?
They must have {{U}}(19) {{/U}} enough, too, and for that amount of
money they could have bought—but what is the {{U}}(20) {{/U}} of
talking? There are distinctions that you never can make people
feel.