![]() On more than one hand was a large, ornate ring, on more than one wrist a conspicuous bracelet they wore jewellery that might only be worn by these men when they thus gathered together. Of all ages, all degrees of despondency, all grades of mental and physical ill-being, they must yet laugh shrilly from time to time, must yet tap their feet to the rhythm of music, must yet dance together in response to the band-and that dance seemed the Dance of Death to Stephen. There they sat, closely herded together at the tables, creatures shabby yet tawdry, timid yet defiant-and their eyes, Stephen never forgot their eyes, those haunted, tormented eyes of the invert. ![]() That merciless, drug-dealing, death-dealing haunt to which flocked the battered remnants of men whom their fellow-men had at last stamped under who, despised of the world, must despise themselves beyond all hope, it seemed, of salvation. ![]() “As long as she lived Stephen never forgot her first impressions of the bar known as Alec's-that meeting-place of the most miserable of all those who comprised the miserable army.
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