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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

CHAPTER VII
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There was a mere sprinkling of kid-gloved men who smoked cigars purchased elsewhere.
The great body of the crowd was composed of people who showed that all day they strove with their hands.

Quiet Germans, with maybe their wives and two or three children, sat listening to the music, with the expressions of happy cows.

An occasional party of sailors from a war-ship, their faces pictures of sturdy health, spent the earlier hours of the evening at the small round tables.

Very infrequent tipsy men, swollen with the value of their opinions, engaged their companions in earnest and confidential conversation.

In the balcony, and here and there below, shone the impassive faces of women.


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