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By Jack Joseph Smith

- /62 | Jaqueline laughed ‘with her meuth full; Outside.’ Now and then a voice, but mostly the> | murmur was quiet news The heuses on Hart: Street were going te get there restand begin te breath, and the beach city pains were stretching the sands The deor wae knocked at lightly. Jiven Jee stoed | up frem where-he had seated himself en the floer beneath Animal and Jaqueline seated on the bed, and went te the doer opening it. In walked older | Marie and a young man dressed in black leather | clothes and shees, with black hair cembed in bangs, and a white angular face, with dark knowledgeable> eyese Tenight the air smelled clear te Jee, He sniffed, The studio images; the runaway; they were fergotten, ; Marie went’ and ‘sat. A cushiem had let her clear a | way) to the noncenter of attraction, The man'd:lea= | ther coat’ leoked* like a well werked hand as ‘he -teok it eff, It was cracked ‘and weather beaten, but’ his face was smeoth, Underneath he had en a leather: sh= | dvb, It'was black too, 0 it was-definate-te Joey, that this man were a cestumes Animal’ was talking te Jaugeline about money, while she sat munching cheese and sipping wine, .with a lefty and mischievious slant in her eyes, ,and stretch

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The arrival of Marie and the leather-clad visitor widens the social room again, showing how Hart Street's casual gatherings keep absorbing new types without losing their local code.

This page works through texture and entrance. The smell of the air, the leather, the off-center seating, and the ongoing talk about money all make the room feel like a porous crossroads rather than a private refuge.

Claude

The arrival of Marie and the leather-clad visitor widens the social room again, showing how Hart Street keeps letting new people in. The page is ensemble management.