Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !

Updated: June 26, 2025


Why, she ought to know that's all exploded now. Slumming, as a fad, had its day, but it's quite gone out now " "Do you think it is because it is fashionable, or was fashionable, that Miss Francie takes an interest in those poor children?" Maurice asked, gently. Lionel was nearly telling him to mind his own business; why should he step in to defend Cousin Francie?

Herman spoke again as if nothing had been said. "You have been slumming this afternoon?" "I do not like the name, but I suppose I have." "It isn't a cheerful day to go poking about alone among the tenement houses." "I was not alone," Ashe answered with a hesitation which she could not help noting and with a significant softening of voice. "Mrs. Fenton was with me." "Ah!"

Aunt Hannah would call for a dozen shawls in that place if she had breath enough to call for any after she got to the top of those four flights!" "Yes, I suppose so," rejoined Bertram, with an unwilling smile. "Still well, you can take Rosa," he concluded decisively. "How Miss Alice would like that to catch me going 'slumming' with my maid!" cried Billy, righteous indignation in her voice.

Mattock, directing her peculiar sweet-sour smile at the distinguished lady with the Times, said: "Perhaps you 've not had experience of them in London, Lady Bonington?" Lady Bonington, in answer, rustled. "Oh, do tell us about the slums, Mrs. Mattock!" cried Sybil. "Slumming must be splendid! It's so deadly here nothing but flannel petticoats." "The poor, my dear," began Mrs.

And perhaps, if she could get Aunt Cora to chaperon them, they might make up one of these slumming parties some evening and go down to Red Gap's Latin Quarter; it might be amusing. Cora Wales glistened at this. She said she guessed people could now see how such goings-on were regarded by society in the true sense of the word. And it did give the girls a chill, calling the Bigler home a slum.

The Kingdom of Heaven that whole whirling activity of the commonwealth of God the citizenship towards which you might be pointing Baxter Court you have not even imagined it. I am not being sentimental. Don't misunderstand. Don't fancy, for instance, that I am exhorting you to go slumming. Deliberately or not, you took a wrong impression from my first letter. You can't mistake this.

Later we shall see her slumming in New York like a Sister of Charity, 'saving those that are lost, a field of labor toward which her Federalist education scarcely led. She could have learned some condescension and humanity from her mother who, in spite of her fine birth, seems to have been modest and retiring to a degree.

His special interest was the condition of the lower classes; he made speeches here and there, went slumming, called himself a Christian Socialist. This kind of thing was no doubt attractive to Lilian you know enough of her to understand that. She was a girl of seventeen, remember. In the end, Northway asked her to marry him, and she consented." "Did he know of the money?" inquired Glazzard.

As they entered farther into the district, the Rectangle seemed to stare as with one great, bleary, beer-soaked countenance at this fine carriage with its load of fashionably dressed young women. "Slumming" had never been a fad with Raymond society, and this was perhaps the first time that the two had come together in this way.

He had read about such things in the reports of the Commission, but this was the first time that he had ever really been Slumming. When he weakened on the Bumper Proposition and disavowed any familiarity with the Texas Tommy spasm or the fine points of Auction, the sophisticated ones exchanged significant Glances.

Word Of The Day

dummie's

Others Looking