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Updated: August 8, 2024
De Wet was captured and is now under military control, and still we waited orders to move from the comfortable billets and crowded streets of our town. Dry eyes would see us depart, mocking children would bid us sarcastic farewells, the kindly landladies and their fair daughters would laugh when we bade adieu and moved away to some destination unknown.
You will find there landladies devoured with jealousy, astute housekeepers, delightful boys, wise peasants, touchy shopkeepers, all the cosas de Espana and, in addition, the pale girl Rosario. I recommend that pathetic and silent victim of fate to your benevolent compassion.
I have seen a great many landladies who looked so severe on seeing a window open in a room where the register was also open, that the unhappy boarder felt at once like a culprit for even desiring both warmth and fresh air at the same time. Once, however, I had the good fortune to know a woman of different views. She bought a house expressly with the intention of letting it to transient lodgers.
Of all the nice-mannered, soft-spoken landladies I've ever seen, she was the best, and on'y to 'ear the way she answered her 'usband when he spoke to 'er was a pleasure to every married man in the bar. Mr. John Blows stood listening to the foreman with an air of lofty disdain.
This gentleman had taken up an attitude which had now passed into the phase of correspondence and compromise; but it was the opinion of the immediate neighbourhood that he had not a leg to stand upon, and on whatever subject the sentiment of Jersey Villas might have been vague, it was not so on the rights and the wrongs of landladies. Mrs.
Landladies is bad females, sar, very common." "You've been shooting craps," said Kirk, accusingly. "Crops, sar! What is crops?" "You don't know what craps is! I mean you've been gambling." "Oh, boss, I h'invest my money." "Indeed!" "Lahst Sunday nearly won I the big prize. I 'ad h'all but three numbers." "Lottery ticket, eh?" "H'eight! H'eight chawnces in all," the negro sighed.
If you aren't able to get any, come up to the Hen and Chickens; I hear they have rooms to let there. Poor little girls! he murmured to Williams as they got into a cab. 'They only have twenty-five bob a week; one can't see them robbed by landladies who can let their rooms three times over. 'Just as you like, said Williams, 'but you'll have the hotel full of them.
In all parts of London there are quiet by-streets of houses given up to lodging-letting, wherein are to be found many landladies, who, good easy souls, trouble little about the private morals of their lodgers, so long as no positive disorder comes about and no public scandal is occasioned.
Ah, what a camaraderie and fellowship, knit close by the urgency of making both ends meet, strengthened by the necessity of withstanding rapacious, or negligent, or tyrannous landladies, sweetened by kindnesses and courtesies which cost the giver little, but mean much to the receiver!
If only one could extract the same amount of innocent and durable pleasure out of all other landladies!... Many are the growths of this kind which I have admired in various lands; none can vaunt as proud and harmonious a development as this one. You would say it had been cast in some dull blue metal.
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