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Ten minutes pass, and then the landlady's disapproval becomes manifest and aggressive. One of the little girls, a sharp-faced little larrikiness, who always wears a furtive grin of cunning it seems as though it were born with her, and is perhaps more a misfortune than a fault comes in and says please she wants to tidy up.
"Hello, you blokes!" cried the larrikiness, slapping one on the shoulder. "Isn't this a blank of a time you're having?" It was her ideal of pleasure, hers and theirs, to parade the street or stand in it, to gape or be gaped at. Neither Ned nor Nellie spoke as they journeyed down George street in the rumbling 'bus.
As they stood in George-street, waiting for their 'bus, a high-heeled, tightly-corsetted, gaily-hatted larrikiness flounced out of the side door of a hotel near by. A couple of larrikin acquaintances were standing there, shrivelled young men in high-heeled pointed-toed shoes, belled trousers, gaudy neckties and round soft hats tipped over the left ear.
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