After their purchases were made and done up, they wanted twine. Don't
forget, please, that this was a shop.
"Twine?" murmured the picturesque proprietor gently. "Of course I
should have some; I must remember to get some twine!"
The sympathies are always ready there, the pennies too, when there are
any! A lame man, a sick woman, a little child, a forlorn dog or
cat,--they have only to go and sit on the steps of one of those
blessed studio buildings, to receive pity, help and cheer. And--ye
gods!--isn't the fact well known! And isn't it taken advantage of,
just! The swift, unreasoning charity of these Bohemians is so well
recognised that it is a regular graft for the unscrupulous.
But they keep right on being cheated right and left; thank heaven,
they will never learn to be wiser!
This difference between the Village view and the conventional
standpoint is very difficult to analyse. It really can only be made
clear by examples. As, for instance:
It is fairly late in the evening. In one of the little tea shops is a
group of girls and men smoking.
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