The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various
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the list. Influential men who join us now will be well provided for when
we come into power. We want funds to carry on the cause. Think how much you might do with such men as Prowley and Dastick! Ah, those abominable old sinners, it would be a charity to get something out of them to repair a little of the mischief they have done in the world." I protested at the way in which these gentlemen were mentioned: they were friends of mine, and highly esteemed citizens. "Sir, they are _Moderate Drinkers_," said Mrs. Romulus, with an emphasis which claimed the settlement of the whole question. "The Gladiators are full of pity for the poor lost inebriate. They propose to convert their bar-keeping brothers by a course of moral suasion. But they will ever proscribe and defy those relentless Moderate Drinkers who admit the wine-cup into their families, and--and--why, Sir, did you ever see the stomach of a Moderate Drinker?" I never had. "Mr. Stellato has one fourteen times the size of life, colored after Nature by a progressive artist. It is a fearful sight!" I did not question it. "Once more, there is not a moment to spare," said Mrs. Romulus, turning suddenly upon the clergyman. "The question is, Shall we put you upon our Order of Exercises?" "It would not sound badly," insinuated Stellato, perusing the document in imagination: "'Chant, by the Choir; Recitation of Original Verses, by |
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