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Now, if you loves this young cove, w'y, very good! if this 'ere young cove loves you which ain't to be wondered at so much the better, but don't don't go a-marryin' each other, an' as for the children " "Come I'll take a belt give me a belt!" said I, more hastily than before. "A belt?" said the Pedler. "A belt, yes." "Wi' a fine steel buckle made in " "Yes yes!" said I.
And with this even, they were not satisfied. As the perishable calicoes roared up and went down in the flames, as the pans and pots and cups melted away in the furnace heat, and the painted faces of the wooden clocks, glared out like those of John Rogers at the stake, enveloped in fire, the cries of the crowd were mingled in with a rude, wild chorus, in which the pedler was made to understand that he stood himself in a peril almost as great as his consuming chattels.
And this evil, white, hard thing had been purchased from a pedler under the name of soap, fine shaving or toilet soap, and now Semantha was delightedly offering it to me, to use every night, and I with immense fervour promised I would use it, just as soon as my own was gone; and I mentally registered a solemn vow that the shadow of my soap should never grow less.
We'll build a fire in this upper fireplace, and bring the cushions and shawls up, and see if we can get a wink of sleep. It ain't a cold night, and we're dry now. You can sleep by the fireplace down-stairs," she said to the pedler, "and I'll settle with you for our breakfast and supper before we leave in the morning. It's been a providence that you were in the house." Mr.
Where the pedler would have stopped, short of the display and enumeration of all the wares in his wagon, it is not easy to say, but for an unexpected interruption.
"Tell me all about him," said she: "how comes it that he is a gentleman and thou a pedler?" "Well, because my mother was a gypsy, and his a gentlewoman." "What brought him to these parts?" "Trouble, they say." "What trouble?" "Nay, I know not." This after a slight but visible hesitation. "But you have heard say."
While he did so, telling as briefly as he could about the basement and Hansche and the baby that was not his, a silver quarter found its way mysteriously into little Abe's fist, to the utter upsetting of all that "kid's" notions of policemen and their functions. When the pedler had done, the officer directed him to Police Headquarters where they would take the baby, he need have no fear of that.
"Maybe you're goin' my way," said he, turning to Paul; "if you are, you're welcome to a ride." Paul was very glad to accept the invitation. He clambered into the cart, and took a seat behind the pedler, while Boney, who took his recent disappointment very good-naturedly, jogged on contentedly behind. "How far are you goin'?" asked Paul's new acquaintance, as he whipped up his horse.
The Italian or Greek fruit pedler soon prefers to talk English, and his children can be made to talk nothing else.
Always 'member, ef you wants to be gempleman's, dat you kaint take no money from nigger and poor buckrah. You kin gib um wha' you please, but you mustn't 'speck dem to be gibbing you." "But in the way of trade, Cæsar," said the pedler, putting his horse in motion.
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