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The door of this cottage was soon besieged by the sick and the idle, while the starosta stood in the door-way and kept order. Within, in the one dwelling-room of the cottage, were assembled as picturesque and as unsavory a group as the most enthusiastic modern "slummer" could desire to see.
"Of course it was my Slummer that got me the job. Women have been raving about that girl's head; and it isn't bad, though I say it. I had to take a studio at a couple of days' notice couldn't ask Lady Rockett to come and sit at that place of mine in Battersea; a shabby hole.
In the midst stood the easel, supporting a large canvas, the artist's work on which showed already in a state of hopeful advancement. "The Slummer" was his provisional name for this picture; he had not yet hit upon that more decorous title which might suit the Academy catalogue. A glance discovered the subject.
I've always maintained that it was perfectly true. A friend of mine why, you remember me speaking of Warburton Warburton wanted me to make the Slummer ugly. But why? It's just the prettiest girls of that kind who go slumming nowadays. Still, you are quite right. I did mean it to be 'successful. I had to make a success, that's the fact of the matter. You know what bad times I was having.
She did not remember him. He rubbed the sides of his jaws on a post, and quietly, slowly turned and disappeared. The last that she saw of him was the end of his tail twitching from side to side; and the little Slummer had no idea that she had been as near death to-day, as she had been when she ventured into the fox-cage. As night came on the Kitten began to feel hungry.
Haven't I learned it to you often enough a slummer must pay for her nosiness?" There entered then, on poor shuffling feet, Mannie Kantor so marred in the mysterious and ceramic process of life that the brain and the soul had stayed back sooner than inhabit him.
They throw off all disguise before me, and even the thieves are not afraid. When once you are on level terms with the community you begin to see what is the true result of drink. The clergyman, the district visitor, the professional slummer all the people who "patronise" never learn the truth, and they positively invite the wastrel classes to lie.
Arlt, there might be a question. Legitimate slumming presupposes two willing parties, the slummer and the slummed." "In other words," Bobby added; "it is socially possible to foregather with the slum in the next ward; it is death to speak to the undesirable neighbor in the back alley. The fact is ordained; but it will take several generations of social scientists to ferret out the cause."
For my part, I'd rather talk about 'The Slummer. I had a look at it the other day. Uncommonly good, the blackguard on the curbstone, you've got him." "You think so?" Franks sat a little straighter, but still with vacant eye. "Yes, not bad, I think. But who knows whether I shall finish the thing." "If you don't," replied his friend, in a matter-of-fact tone, "you'll do something better.
Splendid subject, she'd be. . . . When I think of that beastly so-called portrait that I put my foot through, the day I was in hell! Queer how one develops all at a jump. Two years ago I could no more paint a woman's portrait than I could build a cathedral. I caught the trick in the Slummer, but didn't see all it meant till Blackstaffe asked me to paint Lady Rockett.
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