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We know that she is in danger of yielding to the fascinations of a seductive man-about-town; and having shown us this danger, the author proceeds to emphasize the manly and sterling character of the husband. He has the gentleness that goes with strength; but where his affections or his honour is concerned, he is not a man to be trifled with.
I had casually met her husband as an all-round man-about-town, and by this token, seeking sympathy on lines of least resistance, he came to me with his sorrow. I have never seen grief more real and fervid.
Harry became a man-about-town and a member of the renowned New Fantastics Club. The New Fantastics were powerful supporters of the dramatic art, and the roll of the club included numerous theatrical stars of magnitudes varying from the first to the tenth.
William was not a smoker that is to say, he had made the usual boyhood experiments, finding them discouraging; and though at times he considered it humorously man-about-town to say to a smoking friend, "Well, I'll tackle one o' your ole coffin-nails," he had never made a purchase of tobacco in his life.
There is one direction in which "emancipation of woman" and enlargement of her "sphere" have wrought a reform: they have elevated the personnel of the little dinner party in the "private room." Formerly, as any veteran man-about-town can testify, if he will, the female contingent of the party was composed of persons altogether unspeakable.
He was quite the man-about-town of the conversation, while the easy-shaver was the child. 'Why, I am going to fetch my lodger home, said Paul. 'A woman! cried Mr Bailey, 'for a twenty-pun' note!
That element now remains upon its reservation; among the superior advantages enjoyed by the man-about-town of today is that of the companionship, at his dinner in camera, of ladies having an honorable vocation. That the man-about-town has been morally elevated by this Emancipation of Girl from the seclusion of home to that of the "private room" is too obvious for denial.
'Force of habit, I suppose, said Theodore Racksole drily. 'Just so, sir. 'I fancied I had forbidden you to re-enter this hotel? 'I thought your order applied only to my professional capacity. I am here to-night as the guest of Mr and Mrs Sampson Levi. 'In your new role of man-about-town, eh? 'Exactly. 'But I don't allow men-about-town up here, my friend.
I had casually met her husband as an all-round man-about-town, and by this token, seeking sympathy on lines of least resistance, he came to me with his sorrow. I have never seen grief more real and fervid.
It seems to me that this case is a bigger one than I imagine. I wonder what I had better do?" It was not easy to say. However, by the time Jennings reached his home he had chambers in Duke Street, St. James' he decided to see Maraquito. For this purpose he arrayed himself in accurate evening dress. Senora Gredos thought he was a mere idler, a man-about-town.
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