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Updated: May 27, 2025
She had been born in London; she had lived there ever since she hoped to die there. She liked fogs, motor-buses, noise, policemen, paper-boys, shops, taxi-cabs, artificial light, stone pavements, houses in long, grey rows, mud, banana-skins, and moving-picture exhibitions. Especially moving-picture exhibitions. It was, indeed, her taste for these that had caused her banishment to Millbourne.
Outside, a moon, something bridal in its whiteness, beat down upon a kicked-up stretch of beach, the banana-skins, the pop-corn boxes, the gambados of erstwhile revelers violently printed into its sands. A platinum-colored sea undulated in. The leaping, bounding outline of Luna Park winked out even as they emerged, the whole violent contortion fading back into silver mist.
The pile of banana-skins was positively startling to behold; tea and coffee pots were drained, and drained again; requests for milk and more milk threatened the supply of later guests, and the birds in the trees overhead chattered not a whit more gaily than the company around the board.
sailing over the white beach or floating on the blue waves of the unsullied ocean, you wonder whether these country gulls are happier than the city gulls. That they are different you are sure, and also that they must have less variety in their diet, hardly any banana-skins and orange-peel at all. But then they have more fish, and probably more fun in catching them.
"They wanted a hunchback, or monstrosity of some kind; for the boys to pelt with orange-peel and banana-skins something to set the blacks laughing You saw the clown that night well, I was that for two years. I suppose you have a humanitarian feeling about negroes and Chinese. Wait till you've been at their mercy! "Well, I learned to do the tricks.
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