Lawyers and doctors sat adjacent thereunto, and merchants not far away.

There was yet no shrug at the artisan, yet the invisible hand gradually swept him apart.

Across the great gulfs, on whose shores sat the dining-room tables, men and women looked and talked, but trod not as they came in to meat, each person knowing well his place.

The day of the commercial traveller was not yet, and for these there was no special table, they being for the most part assigned to the Red Belt; there being a certain portion of the hall where the tablecloths were checkered red and white.

It was not good to be in the Red Belt.
Sam, the owner of the livery barn, had one table in the corner, where he invariably sat.