H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)
“ The love of low company, which is sometimes a distinguishing feature of the youthful, comes from several causes—a taste for dubious sport, a kicking against restraint, simply the love of low company, or a kind of megalomania, and a wish to be first person in the company present, a wish easily satisfied at the cost of a few pounds. In Simon's case it was probably a compound of the lot. In the bar of the Bricklayers' Arms he was first person by a mile, and this evening, owing to hay-harvest work, he was first by twenty miles, for the only occupant of the bar was Dick Horn. ”
