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Updated: May 15, 2025
Between the acts most of them swarm out into the adjacent corridors leading to the gaming-rooms, licensed rooms these, with toy-horses ridden by tin jockeys, and another equally delusive and tempting device of the devil a game of tipsy marbles, rolling about in search of sunken saucers emblazoned with the arms of the nations of the earth.
The former was a word of his own. The latter, which is the German for horse, included everything not human, whether animate or inanimate. Between these he for a long time saw no difference. He could not understand why pictures and statues did not move, and he regarded his toy-horses as living things. To inanimate things impelled by foreign forces he ascribed volition.
They were seated everywhere, many on the floor, and the room was a chaos of dolls, trumpets, toy-horses, and drums. The chatter of the children and the noise of the instruments was fearful. But Morley seemed to enjoy the riot, and even his wife's grave face relaxed when she saw her three precious jewels rosy with pleasure.
Then seeing that Tom, and I too, I dare say not Racey, he wouldn't have been surprised if Miss Goldy-hair had said she had a hundred children; he never was surprised at anything when he was a little boy. If he had heard his toy-horses talking in their stables some day, I don't believe he'd have been startled but seeing that Tom and I looked puzzled she explained what she meant to us.
He whips smartly the ignoble-noble fops of the household-troops, parading them on toy-horses, and making them, with suicidal irony, deplore the hardships of comrades in the Crimea. He sneers at the loungers, and the delicate, dissipated roués of the club-house, though their names were once worn by renowned ancestors, and are in the peerage.
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