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Updated: June 10, 2025
It was the flowing out of coins between meals that deprived Annie of breath. They were always doing something. Sailing in a boat! Rowing in a boat! Bathing! The Pier! Sand minstrels! Excursions by brake, tram and train to Laxey, Ramsey, Sulby Glen, Port Erin, Snaefell! Morning shows! Afternoon shows! Evening shows! Circuses, music-halls, theatres, concerts!
What would a man like that do with his evenings? He was not the sort of person who could find any pleasure in making a round of music-halls or sitting up half the night in a card-room. She heard a dull knock, and it came from the wall. Mr. Beale was at home then, he had pushed a chair against the wall, or he was knocking in nails at this hour of the night.
Three of our own scouts appeared across a valley, and never were Boers in greater peril of being shot. I think I may put their lives down to my credit. The British private was even here imperturbable as usual. He sat on the rocks singing the latest he knew from the music-halls.
A wonderful pair, indeed! When May comes, they go to the music-halls in Paris and London." Draconmeyer nodded approval. "Coulois was the name," he whispered to Selingman, as the man moved away. The place filled up slowly. Presently the supper was served. Selingman ate with appetite, Draconmeyer only sparingly. The latter, however, drank more freely than usual.
Within a day or two he was running about with the rest to beer-cellars and music-halls and dance-rooms, smoking bad tobacco, drinking poor beer, and eating sauerkraut and sausages as though he knew no better. This was easy. One can always descend the social ladder. The trouble came when he asked for the education he was promised.
A reaction against the Donnybrook tradition was inevitable and to a great extent wholesome, since the stage Irishman of the transpontine drama or the music-halls was for the most part a gross and unlovely caricature, but, like all reactions, it has tended to obscure the real merits and services of those who showed the other side of the medal.
Side by side with the flippant, rowdy nonsense of the Paris music-halls, there were many pastoral pieces, not without a touch of poetry, I thought, and instinct with the brave independence of the poorer class in France. There you might read how the wood-cutter gloried in his axe, and the gardener scorned to be ashamed of his spade.
She gave it to him and watched him narrowly as he looked quickly over it. "Hulloa!" he said. "What's the matter?" "Some Imitations," he said. "What's that mean?" "Didn't you know Miss Schley was a mimic?" "A mimic not I! She's an actress." "Yes now." "Now? When was she anythin' else?" "When she began in America. She was a mimic in the music-halls." "The deuce she was!"
Royalty stopped an hour and a quarter. Oh, she was wonderful. I mean my mother. Copied your phrases see what an impression you made." "And what have you been doing since you came into the title?" "Looking for you." "Nonsense!" She dropped her fork. "But you knew I had people in Ireland." "I never knew exactly where." "But what put you on the track of the music-halls?" "Nothing.
Cries would suddenly rise from down there, and one almost wished for them; a loud exclamation was a relief from the everlasting latent excitement. Down there beneath the walls of the city the darkness was always alive; it glided along like a heavy life-stream, flowing slowly among taverns and low music-halls and barracks, with their fateful contents of want and imprecations.
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