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The town seemed very quiet and deserted as Molly and Sylvia entered the dark, irregular Bridge Street, and the market-place was as empty of people as before. But the skeps and baskets and three-legged stools were all cleared away. 'Market's over for to-day, said Molly Corney, in disappointed surprise. 'We mun make the best on't, and sell to t' huxters, and a hard bargain they'll be for driving.
Durance was a Saturday meat market's butcher in the Satiric Art. Nesta found it pleasanter to see him than to hear of his work: which, to her present feeling, was inhuman.
"There's no place like New York, after all," he declared, and added, "when the market's up. We'll go to a hotel for breakfast." For some reason she found it difficult to ask the question on her lips. "I suppose," she said hesitatingly, "I suppose we couldn't go home, Howard. You you have never told me where we are to live." As before, the reference to their home seemed to cause him amusement.
"Of course," said Randall, "there are times when it doesn't matter one way or the other. But when well, when the market's in the state it is now, it's life or death, almost, to be on the spot." "I don't understand," I said. "When the market looks fussy, why not sell out, and wait for better times?" "We can't sell out," said Billoo. "We're loaded up to the muzzle."
This in his best exhibit of old-fashioned courtliness the "gentleman" through and through, ignorant of anything useful. "Don't let that matter worry you, Ellersly," said I, friendly, for I wanted to be on a somewhat less business-like basis with that family. "The market's steady, and will go up before it goes down." "Good!" said he. "By the way, you haven't kept your promise to call."
"There's no place like New York, after all," he declared, and added, "when the market's up. We'll go to a hotel for breakfast." For some reason she found it difficult to ask the question on her lips. "I suppose," she said hesitatingly, "I suppose we couldn't go home, Howard. You you have never told me where we are to live." As before, the reference to their home seemed to cause him amusement.
I told my Vancouver agent to sell some shares and send along a check. He says I'd better wait; the market's very flat." "Then you bought the Bench-lands Irrigation stock?" "I did. I have invested most of the money I got for the Bluebird mine." "All ours is at the Merchants' Bank," Carrie remarked. "Jake wanted to buy Irrigation stock, but I wouldn't let him.
Skinner the fact that the Blue Star stock at the book valuation was appraised very conservatively. He nodded. "Lumber market's up and down, down and up, and we never know where we stand. Give you that at two-fifty a share. Want it?" "I should say I do!" Skinner gasped. "Then you owe me sixty-five thousand dollars.
"No market for dogs now," seemed to be the general opinion, and one person bore up well under the news. But the next day a man, very splashed and muddy, and obviously just in from the gulches, stopped, in going by Keith's, and looked at Nig. "Dog market's down," quoted the Boy internally to hearten himself. "That mahlemeut's for sale," observed the Colonel to the stranger. "These are."
"Who was thy good friend in this?" the young man asked one evening after a number of contented remarks concerning the market's appointment. "Who said the word in the Pharaoh's ear?" "So to raise me to this office it is needful that something more than my deserts must have urged the king?" Mentu retorted. "Nay! that was not my meaning," Kenkenes made haste to say.
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