Here a great deal of unrestrained human nature is given free play, and the results are exciting if not edifying.

Let us spend an evening, but not a night--that is too much to ask-with the habitues.
We sit apart and listen to the babel of voices, but we listen in vain for the lodging-house slang of which we are told so much.

They speak very much like other people, and speak on subjects upon which other people speak.

They get as excited as ordinary people, too.
Yonder is a lewd fellow shouting obscenities to a female, who, in an equally loud voice and quite as unmistakable language, returns him a Roland for every Oliver.
Here are a couple of wordy excitable fellows who are arguing the pros and cons of Free Trade and Tariff Reform.

They will keep at it till the lights are put out, for both are supplied with a plentiful supply of contradictory literature.