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And add to all this the suspicious floating element which swells the population as soon as the first fine weather sets in the coachmen, the hawkers, the cantine keepers, all the low-class, wandering folk reeking with grossness and vice and you can form an idea of the honest new town which they have given us with the crowds that come to their Grotto and their Basilica!"
With his public school and University education, the Rajah had passed for an Englishman. "What sort of a reputation does he bear?" Berrington asked in a whisper. "Shady," Field replied briefly. "What you call a renegade, I should say. Has all the vices of both hemispheres, without the redeeming features of either. Low-class music halls, ballet dancers, prize-fighters and the like.
She resembled a low-class medium or one of those women who tell fortunes by cards for half a crown. And yet she was striking. A professional sorceress from the slums. It was incomprehensible. There was something awful in the thought that she was the last reflection of the world of passion for the fierce soul which seemed to look at one out of the sardonically savage face of that old seaman.
Dumont d'Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to credit the reports of low-class journals, decided to follow Dillon's track.
I got down there, and was looking over the cart to see that everything was right, when a little half-caste keranie, a sort of low-class clerk, came up behind me and began talking to me in a mysterious kind of way, in that vile chi-chi accent one gets to hate so awfully. "Look here, Sar," he said, "you take my car, Sar; it built for racing.
A Maloh who had lived for many years amongst these people gave us the following information about their tatu: There is with these people a great difference between the tatu of the high-class and that of the low-class individuals: amongst the former the designs are both extensive and complicated, too complicated for our informant to describe with any degree of accuracy, but they seem to be much the same as those described by Hamer.
Should Yuen Yan freely present himself here on the morrow, pleading destitution and craving to be employed, this person will consider the petition with an open head, but it is beneath his dignity to wait upon so low-class an object."
Then, when the door was closed again, Peggy's lover crept along and listened at the shutter outside. Why was she there? He stood bewildered. She had promised to call upon him at his rooms, and yet she was there in that low-class house a veritable den it seemed!
We go up three narrow flights, steep and dark, for space is as important in a low-class Boston tenement house as in a sardine box. The stairway is slippery from filth on the last flight, for on a small bench at the top, in a dry-goods box, a little boy is raising squabs for the market, and the pigeon business, however much it may help to pay the rent, is not conducive to cleanliness.
There can be no doubt that Japan's foreign trade contributed materially to her financial embarrassment, but this subject will be subsequently dealt with. When Tsunayoshi became shogun, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu occupied the position of a low-class squire in the shogun's household and was in receipt of a salary of three hundred koku yearly.
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