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Updated: June 26, 2025
Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows; and I made one or two queer acquaintances on the Thames Embankment and acquired a taste for vagabondising about among the poor which lasted a year or two and has proved to be of no small service since. Slumming had not become a fashion at that time of day; but I have never aimed at being in the fashion, and I did a good deal of it.
He had all the man's apprehension of infectious disease and of the inadvisability of a beautiful girl slumming without attendance, but the one visit he had made to the East End in her company had convinced him that there was no fear as to her personal safety.
We are longing to see Quin and hear the latest, but he is down east." "What an oddity he is!" thoughtfully. "I liked him so much: but it is difficult to reconcile him with slumming." "He's one of the best. Every one loves him. And he does his slumming in quite a way of his own.
She remained thoughtful a moment, fingering the stem of a plant. "I don't see why I shouldn't. Her name is Habberton, Una Habberton. She was visiting the Laidlaws here last summer. Her family, a mother and a lot of girls, live in the old house down in Washington Square. They're fairly well off, but Una has gone in for social work spends almost all of her time at it slumming.
It included horses, bicycles, and Indians, and followed none of the customary rules laid down for a hunt, either in progress or result. And, not to antagonise the reader, I will say now that it was very naughty to do what I did, an impolite and ungenerous thing to do, on a par with the making up of slumming parties to pry into the secrets of the poor.
There were not half a dozen people in the place, and these were obviously denizens of this quarter of the town. They were listless and weary, mere shells of human beings. And yet it was such as these that the slumming parties at night romantically dubbed bohemians. They showed scant interest as De Luxe Dora, unaccompanied for once, swept into the place.
They are really carried forward by that ethical wave which has swept over Western Europe and America during the past generation, and has resulted in "slumming," in practical social service, in all kinds of efforts to improve the material and moral condition of the poor, quite irrespective of sectarian or even Christian initiative.
'For the last four months, Squire, I have been doing two things with neither of which had you much sympathy in old days holiday-making and "slumming." 'Oh, I remember, interrupted the squire hastily. 'I was low last week, and read the Church papers by way of a counter-irritant. You have been starting a new religion, I see. A new religion! Humph!
The great head fell forward, and through the dusk Robert caught the sarcastic gleam of the eyes. 'For the last four months, Squire, I have been doing two things with neither of which you had much sympathy in old days holiday-making and "slumming." 'Oh' I remember, interrupted the Squire hastily. 'I was low last week, and read the Church papers by way of a counter-irritant.
In those days slumming proper had not set in, and the East End was only known geographically, except, no doubt, to a few enthusiasts the sort that antedates first discovery after the fact, and takes a vicious pleasure in precursing its successors. But unassuming benefactresses occurred at intervals whom outsiders knew broadly as Sisters of Charity.
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