Overall the rental market is soft and multifamily permit activity is almost nonexistent.

Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.

one that flows with force and speed; the fast flower

This has now been remedied by enclosing the hatchway within a commodious snow-porch; and, instead of the steam and vapour of the inhabited deck being condensed into moisture about the hatchway as heretofore, it now meets the downward rush of cold air in the porch, and is there converted into minute particles of snow; this porch also diminishes the escape of heat.