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"My friends, with whom I stopped on Christmas Eve," rejoined Mrs. Vrain. "A real good, old, dull English family, as heavy as their own plum puddings. Mrs. Pegall's a widow like myself, and I daresay she buys her frocks in the Bayswater stores. She has two daughters who look like barmaids, and ought to be, only they ain't smart enough. We had a real Sunday at home on Christmas Eve, Mr. Denzil.
If there was a Yankee bar-keep in Hong-Kong, James Boyle would soon locate him. No blowzy barmaids for him to-day: an American bar-keep to whom he could tell his troubles and receive the proper meed of sympathy. The sunshine was brilliant, the air mild. The hotel on the Peak had the aspect of a fairy castle. The streets were full of colour.
To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.
Hence this town seemed all the more French for being on the very margin of Germany, and although there were many German touches in the place German names, larger pots of beer, and enormous theatrical barmaids dressed up in outrageous imitation of Alsatian peasants yet the fixed French colour seemed all the stronger for these specks of something else.
"Pretty girl, pretty young woman!" mumbled Mrs. Bonner. "I know I want no pretty young women come about Lightfoot," and in imagination she peopled the Clavering Arms with a Harem of the most hideous chambermaids and barmaids. Bolton, who was scrubbing the lodge-floor of Shepherd's Inn, and caused Betsy-Jane, and Ameliar-Ann to look with delight.
"I'm goin', miss," said Sam, blushing with shame. Hitherto most barmaids had treated him with kindness, and in taverns where his powers were known, usually addressed him as "sir." "Down on your luck, mate?" said a voice as he turned to go. "Starvin', sir," said Sam, who was never one to trouble about appearances.
If they had any souls they diverted them with coarse amours among barmaids and the women of the streets; they were simply awful. Sexual vice is even coarser and more loathsome in Ireland than it is in England: "'Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. "When I tried to talk they broke into my thought with stupid gibes and jokes. Their highest idea of humour was an obscene story.
The room was divided into compartments in the approved manner, between which were screens of ground glass in mahogany framing, to prevent topers in one compartment being put to the blush by the recognitions of those in the next. On the inside of the counter two barmaids leant over the white-handled beer-engines, and the row of little silvered taps inside, dripping into a pewter trough.
Behind this counter stood the two ubiquitous ladies of the Institute acting the part of barmaids, as if to the manner born, and with the same business-like, active, yet modest, ready-for-anything air which marked all their proceedings. And truly their post was no sinecure. To supply the demands of hundreds of hungry and thirsty warriors was not child's-play.
The bar was besieged, and potmen and barmaids were quickly busy drawing beer and handing it over to the eager folk outside. Gallantry ordered that the faithful swain and the amorous shepherdess should drink out of one and the same pot. ''Urry up an' 'ave your whack, said Corydon, politely handing the foaming bowl for his fair one to drink from.
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