That my granddaughter, a girl reared and taught and watched and guarded by me, should have no more dignity, no more modesty, or womanly feeling, than a barmaid at an inn!' Lesbia began to cry.

He too was going to ask the barmaid for a good-night or a greeting or a good-bye.

"Is it true that you are going to make a barmaid of Sheila?" Sylvester, in an effort to get to his feet, had been held back by Dickie's thin hand that shot out at him like a sword.

It was called "The Drunkard's Downfall," and it begun with a young man going into a nice-looking pub and being served by a nice-looking barmaid with a glass of ale.

He 'ad got on a gold watch-chain as thick as a rope, and a scarf-pin the size of a large walnut, and he had 'ad a few words with the barmaid on 'is own account.

"At the hotels I chuck all the barmaids under the chin, and pretend I'm a dog of a fellow for the sake of this part!"