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As a young man he trains with the gang, because it furnishes the means of gratifying his inordinate vanity; that is the slum's counterfeit of self-esteem. Upon the Jacobs of other days there was a last hold, the father's authority. Changed conditions have loosened that also. There is a time in every young man's life when he knows more than his father.
It now only remained that Mr Slum's compositions should be judiciously distributed; that the pathetic effusions should find their way to all private houses and tradespeople; and that the parody commencing 'If I know'd a donkey, should be confined to the taverns, and circulated only among the lawyers' clerks and choice spirits of the place.
Those others who were new to him turned on him curiously as they heard Slum's greeting, and Carney paused in the act of wiping a glass, an occupation which never failed him, however bad trade might be. Tresler felt that something was due to those who could display so much interest in his return, so he walked to the bar and called for drinks. Then he turned to Slum.
And we are building a children's court that shall put an end to the other outrage, for boys taken there are let off on probation, to give them the chance under a different teaching from the slum's, which it denied them till now. We have learned that we cannot pass off checks for human sympathy in settlement of our brotherhood arrears.
There were the same men there one or two more besides the same reeking atmosphere, the same dingy hue over the whole interior. Nothing seemed changed. Slum's greeting was characteristic. "Wal, blind-hulks has passed eh? I figgered you was comin' out on top. Guess the government'll treat you han'some." The butcher guffawed from his place at the bar.
"Rod," she pleaded, "I want you to come along with me. I can't do you any harm now." The hunchback had stopped playing. The old women were crowding round Spenser and her, were peering at them, with eyes eager and ears a-cock for romance for nowhere on this earth do the stars shine so sweetly as down between the precipices of shame to the black floor of the slum's abyss.
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