Up in the Old Hotel (Vintage Classics)
“Madame Visaggi calls them ‘the regulars.’ Peggy is one. She is an Irish girl, around thirty-five, who works in the office of a wholesale butcher on First Avenue. She is in Madame Visaggi’s practically every night. Most often she is full of brandy when she leaves, but her apartment is only a few blocks away, in Tudor City, and she always gets home all right. The butcher is her uncle and doesn’t say anything if she shows up late for work. Peggy is an attractive girl despite a large birthmark on h...er left cheek, which makes her self-conscious. When she comes in, usually between five-thirty and six, she is always tense. She says, ‘I got the inside shakes.’ Then she sits in one of the booths across from the bar, orders a brandy, and opens an afternoon newspaper. By the time she has finished with the newspaper, she has had two or three drinks and has conquered her self-consciousness. Then she doesn’t mind if one of the other regulars comes over and sits in the booth with her. She knows many bitter Irish stories, she uses profanity that is fierce and imaginative, and people like to listen to her.MoreLess
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