1 A slatternly girl waited on him.
2 "Three halfpence, sir," said the girl.
3 The girl came over to him to ask was his dinner not properly cooked.
4 Polly was a slim girl of nineteen; she had light soft hair and a small full mouth.
5 They thought they had only a girl to deal with and that, therefore, they could ride roughshod over her.
6 He paid twopence halfpenny to the slatternly girl and went out of the shop to begin his wandering again.
7 The girl brought him a plate of grocer's hot peas, seasoned with pepper and vinegar, a fork and his ginger beer.
8 When he learned that the young girl beside her was her daughter he judged her to be a year or so younger than himself.
9 There was nothing he liked, he said, so much as looking at a nice young girl, at her nice white hands and her beautiful soft hair.
10 People said that she was very clever at music and a very nice girl and, moreover, that she was a believer in the language movement.
11 And if a boy had a girl for a sweetheart and told lies about it then he would give him such a whipping as no boy ever got in this world.
12 Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road.
13 It is all very well for the man: he can go his ways as if nothing had happened, having had his moment of pleasure, but the girl has to bear the brunt.
14 He might yet be able to settle down in some snug corner and live happily if he could only come across some good simple-minded girl with a little of the ready.
15 He said that if ever he found a boy talking to girls or having a girl for a sweetheart he would whip him and whip him; and that would teach him not to be talking to girls.
16 When they were growing up he had never gone for her like he used to go for Harry and Ernest, because she was a girl; but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother's sake.
17 She changed her blouse too and, as she stood before the mirror, she thought of how she used to dress for mass on Sunday morning when she was a young girl; and she looked with quaint affection at the diminutive body which she had so often adorned.
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