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You know I rarely consent to.... He might be better employed, one would think, than vilifying the Works, but there's no accounting for tastes, as I always say." "Just water with a dash, ma'am. Oh, he's one of these slumming chaps, seems kind of a Socialist, y' know " "The Works?" queried Mr. Canning. "Ah, yes! Mr. Heth's of course! Is a cigarette permitted?..."
And I'm really going to do it. I'm not going to be an amateur like slumming. I'm going to find out things for myself." "But on the roads " expostulated Jack. "Exactly. That's the very point. Back to the land." Jack sat up. "Good Lord!" he said. "Why, I never thought of it." "What?" "It's your old grandmother coming out." Frank stared. "Grandmother?" "Yes old Mrs. Kelly."
He always had a singularly uneasy way about him, as though he were afraid of some impending trouble, and finally after a day spent with him slumming about London and a more perfect slummer no one ever saw, for he was apparently familiar with every one of the worst and lowest resorts in all of London as well as on intimate terms with leaders in the criminal world I put a few questions to him impertinently pertinent to himself.
The Barbary Coast of San Francisco, once the old-time sailor-town in the days when San Francisco was reckoned the toughest port of the Seven Seas, had evolved with the city until it depended for at least half of its earnings on the slumming parties that visited it and spent liberally.
I hate it, the people I visit hate it, and there's nobody pleased but the managers, who can set down so many more visits paid to the worthy poor, and make a better showing in their annual report. For my part I am tired of the worthy poor; and if I must keep on slumming, I'd like to try the unworthy poor a while. I'm sure they'd be more interesting."
I've always maintained that it was perfectly true. A friend of mine why, you remember me speaking of Warburton Warburton wanted me to make the Slummer ugly. But why? It's just the prettiest girls of that kind who go slumming nowadays. Still, you are quite right. I did mean it to be 'successful. I had to make a success, that's the fact of the matter. You know what bad times I was having.
South Clark Street can transform a winter overcoat into hamburger and onions so quickly that the eye can't follow the hand. Do you gather from this that you are being taken slumming? Not at all. For the passer-by on Clark Street varies as to color, nationality, raiment, finger-nails, and hair-cut according to the locality in which you find him.
When I had charge of the Chinatown Mission a party of three came down to see the sights and do a little slumming in the district, and they asked me to show them around. Now there wasn't a hole or joint in Chinatown or on the Bowery that I didn't know, but I didn't as a rule take women to such places.
May I ask whether you are going into slumming?" "No. Worse." "For the family credit, I must draw the line at the Salvation Army," Bobby adjured her. "A poke bonnet and a tambourine wouldn't be a proper fruitage for our family tree." "What are you going to do, Beatrix?" Sally repeated. "It is something uncanny, I know.
She was so dreadfully tired that night that she forgot to cry, and slept well and soundly. In the morning she went to church for the first time since coming to Windy Meadows. It did not seem civil not to go to hear a man preach when she had gone slumming with his sister and expected to assist him with his difficulties over factory girls.
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