saloon-bars

Updated: July 26, 2025

Malpas's father died, and Mrs. Malpas became the absolute mistress of eight thousand pounds. Lemuel had carefully foreseen this windfall, and wished to use the money in enterprises of the earthenware trade. Mrs. Malpas, pretty and vivacious, with a self-conceit hardened by the adulation of saloon-bars, very decidedly thought otherwise.

Arnold Bennett - Tales of the Five Towns