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The former, indeed, was a favourite haunt of prize-fighters and their backers; the latter was notorious for its host, Robert Hales by name, whose unusual stature he stood seven feet six inches enabled him "to look down on all his customers, although he was always civil to them."
As a state official he did not entertain a high opinion of the free-lance organization to which Mullaney belonged. "I'm here reading a paper supposed it's what the room is for," returned Detective Mullaney. "But excuse me I'll get out. Room seems to be reserved for prize-fighters." "You keep your mouth shut about that that insult." "I never talk it would hurt my business."
It was old Bob Grimston, whom I first met at the benefit of "the Spider," one of the famous prize-fighters of the time. The Hon. Bob Grimston was known in the sporting world as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, and acknowledged as one of the best men in saddle or at the wicket.
As a general thing, you do not get elegance short of two or three removes from the soil, out of which our best blood doubtless comes, quite as good, no doubt, as if it came from those old prize-fighters with iron pots on their heads, to whom some great people are so fond of tracing their descent through a line of small artisans and petty shopkeepers whose veins have held "base" fluid enough to fill the Cloaca Maxima!
Who could define or enumerate the "functions" that are to be represented? But you cannot thus limit functions to the economic sphere without distorting your representation of the national mind and will. If you represent miners merely as miners, you misrepresent them, for they are also Baptists or Anglicans, dog-fanciers, or lovers of Shelley, prize-fighters, or choral singers.
"I strongly object to prize-fighters," said Mrs. Pett, "and I was opposed to Mitchell coming into the house from the first." "You wouldn't let him come back, I suppose?" queried Jimmy tentatively. "I would not. I would not dream of such a thing." "He's full of remorse, you know." "If he has a spark of humanity, I have no doubt of it." Jimmy paused.
The lad is far too good to be wasting his time with the horse-jockeys and charioteers and ostlers of the Greens, or brutalizing himself with the companionship of ruffianly prize-fighters, belonging to this or that speculator in the flesh of ferocious savages.
All restraint had been done away with, and the prize-fighters, flushed with wine, roared across the tables to each other, or shouted their greetings to friends at the other end of the room.
On asking an explanation of my friend, he informed me that these contests were favourite modes of settling private disputes in Morosofia: that the prize-fighters I saw, hired themselves to any one who conceived himself injured in person, character, or property.
"Just the same, I've got them beaten," she said. "The Miss Floods and Miss Crockers can't marry prize-fighters, and I did." Tom looked at her, taken aback for the moment, with admiration, slowly at first, growing in his face. "Well, all I got to say," he enunciated solemnly, "is that Billy's so lucky he don't know how lucky he is."
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