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Updated: May 26, 2025
'Why do the Franks object to killing wicked people? asked the coffee-seller with a laugh. 'Why do they nourish good and bad in their society? 'It is because they are without religion, muttered one man in his beard. An elder of superior rank, who overheard, agreed with him, pronouncing in a tone of gentle pity: 'It is because they lose belief in Allah and the life to come.
At this juncture too an itinerant coffee-seller limps into the room with his tin can and cups and is straightway pounced upon by the breathless performers, who apparently find coffee better dancing-powder than any other beverage. "How much" you ask him "do you charge per cup?"
By the time I had addressed it, "Mrs. Biddy Macartney, coffee-seller," to the care of the Dockgate-keeper, we had not much spare time left in which to stamp and post it, so we took leave of the owner of the pop-shop. He was now very unwilling to let us go. He did not ask another question about his mother, but he was consumed with trivial curiosity about us. Once again he alluded to Biddy.
After trying vainly to convince me of my failure to perform a social duty, he went out to the establishment of a coffee-seller across the street, who kept his cups and brazier in the hollow trunk of the old ilex tree, and set stools for his customers beneath its shade, encroaching on the public street. Thither I followed after a few minutes, and found him telling everybody of the theft.
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