Out And About London
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And the wine-lists — well, wouldn't they knock poor Omar off his perch? I don't know who bought Omar's drinks, or whether he paid for his own, but if he lived in Soho to-day he'd have a pretty thin time either way — unless the factory price for tents had increased in propor- tion with other things.
Gone, too, is the delicious atmosphere of laisser-faire that made Soho a refreshment of the soul for the visitors from Streatham and Ealing. Soho's patrons to-day have a furtive, guilty look about th...em. You see, they are trying to be happy in war-time. No more do you see in the cafes the cold-eyed anarchists and the petty bourgeois and artisans from the foreign warehouses of the local- ity. In their place are heavy-eyed women, placid and monosyllabic, and much khaki and horizon blue. Many of the British soldiers, officers and privates, are men who have not yet been out, and are experimenting with their French among the French girls who have taken the places of the swift-footed, gestic Luigi, Francois or Alphonse; others have come from France, where they have 62 OUT AND ABOUT LONDON discovered the piquancy of French cooking, and desire no more the soHdities of the " old Enghsh " chop-house.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And the wine-lists — well, wouldn't they knock poor Omar off his perch? I don't know who bought Omar's drinks, or whether he paid for his own, but if he lived in Soho to-day he'd have a pretty thin time either way — unless the factory price for tents had increased in propor- tion with other things.
Gone, too, is the delicious atmosphere of laisser-faire that made Soho a refreshment of the soul for the visitors from Streatham and Ealing. Soho's patrons to-day have a furtive, guilty look about th...em. You see, they are trying to be happy in war-time. No more do you see in the cafes the cold-eyed anarchists and the petty bourgeois and artisans from the foreign warehouses of the local- ity. In their place are heavy-eyed women, placid and monosyllabic, and much khaki and horizon blue. Many of the British soldiers, officers and privates, are men who have not yet been out, and are experimenting with their French among the French girls who have taken the places of the swift-footed, gestic Luigi, Francois or Alphonse; others have come from France, where they have 62 OUT AND ABOUT LONDON discovered the piquancy of French cooking, and desire no more the soHdities of the " old Enghsh " chop-house.
What to read after Out And About London?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Burke Thomas to read onlineMoreLess
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