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Elliott had better give our young men a safer example than he does. A little gay! A little drunk would be nearer the truth." "Oh dear! such a vulgar word! We don't use it in good society, you know. It belongs to taverns and drinking-saloons to coarse, common people. You must say 'a little excited, 'a little gay, but not drunk. That's dreadful!"
At this juncture one of the children, who had observed the Malay's theft, called the woman's attention to him. She started in pursuit, raising a loud outcry, which emptied the adjacent drinking-saloons of a pursuing crowd.
How he will be coaxed into those drinking-saloons! how, with his easy, generous, good-natured ways, and I know he will have such ways, and be popular, a bright, handsome young man, and with plenty of money.
His morality, learned in Paris drinking-saloons, laid down the law of self-interest as the sole rule of guidance; he knew, moreover, that next year he would be "drawn for a soldier," to use the popular expression, saw that he had no prospects, and ran into debt, thinking that soon he should be in the army, and none of his creditors would run after him.
About a year before this time, his friends began to notice certain expressions in his speeches which puzzled them not a little. At length a severe and unjust attack on Senator Wilson as a frequenter of drinking-saloons explained the new departure to them.
The multiplicity and gaudiness of the drinking-saloons and bar-rooms were particularly noticeable in passing along the principal streets, and all were doing a thriving business, judging from appearances. The Cubans drink lightly, but they drink often, and are especially addicted to gin, which is dealt out to them at an extraordinarily low price.
But Cicely looked at him calm and earnest, and says, "Will you do as I wish you to in this matter?" "Well, really, my dear madam, I don't quite get at your meaning." "Will you let this store remain as it is, and rent those other saloons to honest business men for some other purpose than drinking-saloons?" "O my dear, dear madam! What can you be thinking of?
They are almost as numerous on the avenues as the drinking-saloons, and, thanks to them, the tasteful housekeeping is at least convenient in a high degree.
It was the fierce high noon of "steamer nights"; light flashed brilliantly from shops, counting-houses, drinking-saloons, and gambling-hells. The streets were yet full of eager, hurrying feet swift of fortune, ambition, pleasure, or crime. But from among these deeper harsher footfalls the echo of the homeless boy's light, innocent tread seemed to have died out forever.
Charles street the drinking-saloons and gamblers' drawing-rooms, and the barber-shops, and the show-cases full of shirt-bosoms and walking-canes, were lighted up. The smell of lemons and mint grew finer than ever. Wide Canal street, out under the darkling crimson sky, was resplendent with countless many-colored lamps. From the river the air came softly, cool and sweet.
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