People I Have Met With.

Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2771, 13 March 1879, Page 3

People I Have Met With.

(By a Lady.)

Ho attends chapel regularly through raiu and sunshiue, tries to look solemn and devout, but fails ; and looks lugubrious instead. Is too much of a coward to openly do what his conscieuco tolls him is wrong but enjoys seeing others do it, and will joiu in anything, however, bad so long as there is no one whose good opinion ho values near to see. He prides himself on his genteel birth while he is without the smallest ingredients in the composition of a gentleman. Ho affects the society of religious old ladies and retails all the petty scandal and gossip of the town, condemns all his male acquaintances for drinking, smoking, playing billiards, aud larking, but follow him to Queen-street any evening when his old lady's friends are safe at home, and you may see him drinking, smoking, billiard playing and flirting with barmaids. He tells his friends that he spends his evenings at the Young Men's Christian Association, and his table talk is of young men's mutual improvements, and the miseries of this life and the miseries of lodgiug aud boaidinghouaes generally ; says he longs for tho fairer regions (meaning .perhaps the hotel), aud brighter spheres.