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The love of boys is like a taste for green gooseberries, it soon passes, leaving a disordered stomach and a general disrelish for acid fruit ever afterwards; the love of the man- about-town between the twenties and thirties is the love of self; but the love of a Man, after the Self-and-Clothes Period has passed, is the love of the full-grown human creature clamouring for its mate, its mate in Soul even more than in Body.
By this time the saloon is crowded with men and women, of all degrees of social standing. Here is the man about-town, the hanger-round of the hotels, in clothes of unexceptionable cut and make, talking earnestly with a female, whose drawn veil conceals her face perhaps some unfortunate victim of his lust, or probably his mistress, come to plead for justice, or for her week's allowance of money.
The surplice, carefully laundered after the funeral, was ready for new fields of labor. The tenor, first patron of Amarilly's costuming establishment, was wont to loiter in the studio of an artist he knew and relate his about-town adventures. This artist was interested in the annals of the little scrub-girl and her means of livelihood.
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