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The most unpleasant incident was when Garrick proposed rather too freely to be a member of the Club. Johnson said that the first duke in England had no right to use such language, and said, according to Mrs. Thrale, "If Garrick does apply, I'll blackball him. Surely we ought to be able to sit in a society like ours 'Unelbowed by a gamester, pimp, or player!"
"Who, sir?" exclaimed Thrale, with surprise; "Mr. Garrick your friend, your companion blackball him!" "Why, sir," replied Johnson, "I love my little David dearly better than all or any of his flatterers do; but surely one ought to sit in a society like ours, "'Unelbowed by a gamester, pimp, or player."
Then they turn their keys in their doors, and flit to the neighboring Atlantic or the adjacent Catskills, till the solstice recovers a little, and then they return to their hotel and resume their life in the city, which they have almost to themselves, with its parks and drives and roof-gardens and vaudevilles, unelbowed by the three or four millions of natives whom we leave behind us when we go to Europe, or Newport, or Bar Harbor, or the Adirondacks.
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