The Baddington Peerage: Who Won, And Who Wore It. a Story of the Best And the Worst Society
The Baddington Peerage: Who Won, And Who Wore It. a Story of the Best And the Worst Society
Sala George Augustus
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He did not see the gaily-lit taverns, the flaring butchers', which keep open so late as to give cause for assumption that the lower classes of this country are considerably more ad- dicted to hot meat suppers than is generally supposed; but he could always see the red and green bottles in the chemists' shop win- dows, and looked inquisitively at the reflec- tions of their parti-coloured show flasks in the wet pavement. There were a great many chemists' shops between the Elephant and Castle and ...Grosvenor Square. So many, that as he was nearing the^ ^rmination of his journey, he stopped the coach in Mount Street, and alighting at a shop full of Medical Bengal lights in the shape of bottles, asked the lad who was Digitized by Google THE NIGHT. 97 dozing behind the counter for some scented lozenges — something he wanted, he said, to take away the smell -of smoking. The youthful Galen, who was very sleepy and very stupid, began to rummage fitfully among the stock, in the hope that something might turn up — cantharides, tincture of rhubarb, colocynth, prepared lint, or spirits of wine — which the customer might think was the right thing, and so purchase; for chemists and chemists' assistants were not nearly so careful or so attentive in supplying the right drugs in 1830 as in 1860.
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