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Updated: May 15, 2025
Swaggering ruffians from the disreputable haunts of London, cockney apprentices, brokendown tapsters, discarded serving men; the Bardolphs and Pistols, Mouldys, Warts, and the like more at home in tavern-brawls or in dark lanes than on the battle-field were not the men to be entrusted with the honour of England at a momentous crisis.
Its three aisles were without ornament or architecture; there was no tower, but beside it stood a peculiar and unexplained erection, shaped like a pagoda, in three tiers of black and battered tar-boarding. It had a slight cant towards the church, and suggested nothing so much as a disreputable Victorian widow, in tippet, mantle and crinoline, seeking the support of a stone wall after a carouse.
The locksmith consorts with pawnbrokers, with cheap sign-makers and with disreputable doctors; yet he is not of them. For there adheres to him a sort of romance. He is a creature of another time, set in our midst by the merest chance. The domestic cat, descended from the jungle, is not more shrunk. Keys have fallen on evil days. Observe the mighty row of them hung discarded along his boxes!
But he was not regarded with the same favor, for he was often seen in company with young men known to be of loose morals, and would occasionally, visit billiard-saloons, tenpin-alleys, and other places where men of disreputable character are found.
Has an air of importance. GAVRÍLOVNA, the housekeeper; an elderly woman, plump, with an open countenance. GRÍSHA, a boy of nineteen, a favorite of the mistress, dandified in dress, wearing a watch with a gold chain. He is handsome, curly-headed, with a foolish expression. NEGLIGÉNTOV, a clerk in a government office; a very disreputable young man.
"Well, then, my friend, among this number can you be sure that you have not had children by at least one of them, and that you have not in the streets, or in the bagnio, some blackguard of a son who steals from and murders decent people, i.e., ourselves; or else a daughter in some disreputable place, or, if she has the good fortune to be deserted by her mother, as cook in some family?
The one which had been living at the ranch had evidently fared well, and was very fat; the other was little else but skin and bone, but as alert and knowing as any New York street-boy, with the same air of disreputable capacity.
But I ought to warn you against the young scamp, for I have found out that he robs us and sells our goods far below their value." "What do you mean?" "I have long had my suspicions, and yesterday I wormed it all out from a disreputable looking fellow, who came here to ask for his friend Chupin." Men accustomed to danger are over prompt in their decisions.
The dog ran up the hill, and for a moment stood out against the moon a shaggy, disreputable dog with a humorous stump of a tail. He stood there with one ear flapping back and the other cocked up a most ridiculous figure. Harry laughed again and the dog barked; they walked down the hill together.
Upon the hearth stood the disreputable remnants of her sodden shoes. For a few moments she lay still, her consciousness invaded with its rush of memories. She felt very direfully stiff when she thought about it, but after the first moment she did not think about it. She sat up and looked eagerly about.
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