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Updated: June 13, 2025
So have we seen at this day the beardless flutterers of the saloons of London thronging round the heroes of the Fives-court so have we seen them admire, and gaze, and calculate a bet so have we seen them meet together, in ludicrous yet in melancholy assemblage, the two extremes of civilized society the patrons of pleasure and its slaves vilest of all slaves at once ferocious and mercenary; male prostitutes, who sell their strength as women their beauty; beasts in act, but baser than beasts in motive, for the last, at least, do not mangle themselves for money!
'Will there be any force at Suakin? aid a voice. Then the outcries redoubled, and grew mixed, thus: 'How many Egyptian troops will they use? God help the Fellaheen! There's a railway in Plumstead marshes doing duty as a fives-court. We shall have the Suakin-Berber line built at last. Canadian voyageurs are too careful. Give me a half-drunk Krooman in a whale-boat. Who commands the Desert column?
Then O'Hara said that as I was the only one there with a watch he and Rand-Brown were in footer clothes, and Merrett and Moriarty hadn't got their tickers on them I'd better act as timekeeper. So I said all right, I would, and we went to the second fives-court. It's the biggest of them, you know.
In the Fleet or King's Bench he would have stood against Powell, who was reckoned the best open-ground player of his time. This last-mentioned player is at present the keeper of the Fives-court, and we might recommend to him for a motto over his door, "Who enters here, forgets himself, his country, and his friends."
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