Read the following excerpt from "the gift of the magi" and answer the question
a furnished flat at $8 per week. it did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout
for the mendicancy squad. in the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric
button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring
in the passage above, the author's word choice creates a thood of
mystery
romance
barrenness
hopefulness