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"Don't mind, old chap," said Binkley, of the fish-stall. "You know how I like to butt up against the fine arts. Mr. Vandyke Mr. Madder er Miss Martin, one of the elect also in art er " The introduction went around. There were also Miss Elise and Miss 'Toinette. Perhaps they were models, for they chattered of the St. Regis decorations and Henry James and they did it not badly.
Theodore has gone to live with his mother, who has a fish-stall in the Halles; she gives him three sous a day for washing down the stall and selling the fish when it has become too odorous for the ordinary customers. And he might have had five hundred francs for himself and remained my confidential clerk. You must not think for a moment, my dear Sir, that I was ever actually deceived in Theodore.
You little idiot, she's fighting one in each of those pictures, from the one showing that girl's face in the crowd, to the old chap with the fish-stall. She'll never die that one. Because she's the spirit. It's the other one who's dead and she doesn't know it. But some day she'll find herself buried. And I want to be there to shovel on the dirt."
Here's this one, 'Better Cooking Means Better Husbands: Try It. That's the argumentum ad feminam with a vengeance." "Yes. I picked that up from a fat old party who was advising a thin young wife at a fish-stall. 'Give'm his food right an' he'll come home to it, 'stid o' workin' the free lunch." "Here are two on the drink question.
But he had gleaned wonder and delight from other and more remote spots, and now one of them began to stand forth upon the blank ceiling at which he stared, seeking guidance. A crowded corner of Essex Street, stewing in the hard sunshine. The teeming, shrill crowd. The stench and gleam of a fish-stall offering bargains.
At the fish-stall nothing that comes out of the sea is overlooked. She buys not only fish, but seaweed, which is a common article of diet. It is eaten raw; it is also boiled, pickled, or fried; it is often made into soup. Sea-slugs, cuttle-fish, and other creatures which we consider the mere offal of the sea, are eagerly devoured by the Japanese.
You exclaim, "It is a Lobster!" A lobster truly; but saw you ever a lobster with such presence before? Does he resemble the poor bewildered crustaceans you have seen bunched together at a fish-stall? Bears he any likeness to the innocent-looking edibles you have seen lying on a dish, by boiling turned, like the morn, from black to red? Those ghost-like Prawns are near relatives of the giant.
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