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Updated: June 16, 2025
I like the smell of warm kitchens and the talk of bus-drivers, and bread and herrings for my tea all the low satisfactions appeal to me. Beer, too, and hand-organs." "I don't know when to believe you. He talks about her quite freely, and and so do I. She is really interesting in her way." "And in perspective." "Don't be odiously smart. He and Stephen" her glance was tentative "have made it up."
"Oscar" took the place of their favourite word as a term of contempt, and they shouted it at each other on all sides; bus-drivers, cabbies and paper sellers using it in and out of season with the keenest relish. For the moment the upper classes lay mum-chance and let the storm blow over.
He seemed to have an intuitive understanding not only of his own art but of every art and craft, and it was some time before one realised that he attained this miraculous virtuosity by an absolute disdain for every other form of human endeavour. He knew nothing of the great general or millionaire or man of science, and he cared as little for them as for fishermen or 'bus-drivers.
And I assure you now I'm going to confess that often, when I come away from some meeting or from reading some dreadful article on social reform, I feel as if I could embrace everything and everyone I come across, simply for being so good as to exist the 'bus-drivers, the cabmen, the shop-keepers, the slum-landlords, the slum-victims, the prostitutes, the thieves.
Even a Brigadier-General with red tabs, on his way to Whitehall, looks pathetically humble waggling his cane at a 'bus. All 'bus-drivers have a kingly look; it comes from their proud position. The rest of the world is only worthy to communicate with that noble race by means of nods and becks and wreathed smiles. "Chancery Lane, please," said Mr. Russell. "But why did you stop specially for me?"
The bus-drivers used to be past masters at it, poking their quiet fun impartially at their fellow-drivers and ordinary citizens. Whether it is that the drivers of motor-buses realise that no joke could be heard above the din, or whether it is that they feel as ill-tempered as they look, their arrival has made fatal inroads on the geniality of London.
Commonly he clutched a big rattle, and sometimes he went along hailing the bus-drivers and policemen along the road outside the railings as "Dadda!" and "Babba!" in a sociable, democratic way. "There goes that there great Boomfood baby," the bus-driver used to say. "Looks 'ealthy," the forward passenger would remark. "Bottle fed," the bus-driver would explain.
The canals of Venice are the highways, and the gondoliers are like 'bus-drivers in Piccadilly they know everybody and are in close touch with all the secrets of State.
'But I would suggest that it is only decent to go down on your bended knees. 'That sounds a perilous feat to perform in a hansom cab, and it would certainly attract an amount of attention from passing bus-drivers which would be embarrassing. 'You could never convince me of the sincerity of your passion unless you did something of the kind, she replied.
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