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However, some instinct took me through a door at the back of the lobby, and I found myself in a large room with an enormous picture stretching across the whole of one wall, and under the picture a counter, and behind the counter divers chappies in white, serving drinks. They have barmen, don't you know, in New York, not barmaids. Rum idea!
The commercial traveller was inept enough to offer a jocular reply, and then he found himself involved in the morass of 'the whole question'. He, and we also, were obliged to hear in immense detail Miss Annie Brett's complete notions of the movement for the abolition of barmaids. The subject was heavy on her mind, and she lifted it off.
I have not known many women who were seduced and deserted, though this is a fiction much affected by prostitutes. Barmaids supply a considerable number to the ranks of prostitution, largely on account of their addiction to drink; drunkenness invariably leads to laxness of moral restraint in women.
William Mosk would have disgraced heathen Rome in its worst days; as for his daughter well! Mrs Pansey threw a world of horror into the ejaculation. 'Miss Mosk is a well-conducted young lady, said Gabriel, growing red and injudicious. 'Lady! bellowed Mrs Pansey, shaking her fan; 'and since when have brazen, painted barmaids become ladies, Mr Pendle?
The man in the fur cap, and the potboy rush out; a scene of riot and confusion ensues; half the Irishmen get shut out, and the other half get shut in; the potboy is knocked among the tubs in no time; the landlord hits everybody, and everybody hits the landlord; the barmaids scream; the police come in; the rest is a confused mixture of arms, legs, staves, torn coats, shouting, and struggling.
With his vivid fancy he seemed to see the surging throng round the pit-door of theatres, and the glitter of cheap restaurants, bars where men, half drunk, sat on high stools talking with barmaids; and under the street lamps the mysterious passing of dark crowds bent upon pleasure. Sharp lent him cheap novels from Holywell Row, which Philip read in his cubicle with a sort of wonderful fear.
"But," said Geoffrey, "when you saw your friends in England choosing for themselves, and falling in love and marrying for love's sake ?" "Some of them chose for themselves and married barmaids and divorced persons, just for the reason that they were in love and uncontrolled. So they brought shame on their families, and are probably now very unhappy.
"No, no, Lotty; your husband cannot let you say that." "My husband can laugh and talk with barmaids. That makes him happy." "Lotty," he said, "you are a little fool. And think of the glory. Posters with your name in letters a foot and a half long 'The People's Favorite. Why, don't they applaud you till their hands drop off?" She melted a little. "Applaud! As if that did any good!
Seen through the gold of old Scotch, life seems more beautiful, and the barmaids more fetching." Perched on the high stools which allowed them to lean on the rail of the bar the two topers solemnly clinked glasses.
The old-fashioned boxes into which the guests edged themselves had not been removed, and about the mahogany bar, placed in the passage in front of the proprietress's parlour, two dingy barmaids served actors from the adjoining theatre with whisky-and-water. The contributors to the Pilgrim had selected a box, and were clamouring for food.
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