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Carl first submitted his gold watch the baby had dropped it once, and it had shrunk thereby in the eyes of the pawnshop man, though not in ours. The only other valuable we had along with us was my grandmother's wedding present to me, which had been my grandfather's wedding present to her a glorious old-fashioned breast-pin. We were allowed fifty dollars on it, which saved the day.
I always preferred a piece of dry bread with an egg you get the true taste of the egg so much better. One day or another we must part with everything. It is sure to come. Sooner or later, what does that matter? 'The readiness is all, as Hamlet says. Death, or the pawnshop, signifies nothing.
But at thirteen and a half a girl ought to be earning money for her parents. Bless you! She knew what a pawnshop was, her father being often out of a job owing to potter's asthma; and she had some knowledge of cookery, and was in particular very good at boiling potatoes. To take her would be a real kindness on the part of Mrs.
I'll have an alert sent out for the cab driver, and I'll have the owner of the pawnshop picked up. There must be someone on the Solar Delegate's staff who stole those priorities. We'll start searching there first, and if we come up with anyone who can't explain his absence from Venusport at the time the priorities were used, and fits Corbett's description, we'll contact you. End transmission!"
Then when he heard Seth Dickerson's words he fell back and his face grew deathly white. "I I don't know you," he stammered. "I seed you over to Auburn, in a pawnshop," repeated Dickerson. "It It isn't true!" gasped Caven. "I was never over to Auburn in my life. Why should I go there to a pawnshop?" "I guess you know well enough, Caven," said Tom.
They descended the next flight and came into the back room behind the pawnshop, which the Duchess used as a combination of sitting-room, office, and storeroom. About this musty museum hung or stood unredeemed seamen's jackets, men and women's evening wear, banjos, guitars, violins, umbrellas, and one huge green stuffed parrot sitting on top of the Duchess's safe.
"There is but little light, and portable property in that house in Clapham that has escaped my lamentable improvidence, but there are one or two things the iron-bound chest, the bureau with a broken hinge, and the large air pump distinctly pawnable if only you can contrive to get them to a pawnshop. You have more Will power than I I never could get the confounded things downstairs.
The pawnshop made the corner of a very dark and narrow lane and, with a quick glance around him to assure himself that he was unobserved, Jimmie Dale stepped into the alleyway, and, lost instantly in the blacker shadows, stole along by the wall of the pawnshop. Old Isaac's business was not all done through the front door. And then suddenly Jimmie Dale shrank still closer against the wall.
In the licensed gambling houses groups of excited men and women crowd about gaming tables presided over by greasy, half-naked Chinese croupiers, and, when they have squandered their trifling earnings, hasten to the nearest pawnshop with any garment or article of furniture that is not absolutely indispensable to their existence in order to obtain a few more coins to hazard and eventually to lose.
In their number was one Chang Te-hui, who from his early years filled the post of manager in Hsueeh P'an's pawnshop; and who enjoyed in his home a living of two or three thousand taels. His purpose too was to visit his native place this year, and to return the following spring.
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