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I told 'em, down stairs, that I'd bet ten to one you couldn't or wouldn't raise any think out of your son-in-law." "Your name is Rickarts, I believe?" asked Mr. Whedell. "Yes, Rickarts!" growled the owner of the appellation, "You ought to know it by this time; for I've dunned you often enough." "True, Mr.
Rickarts, the shoemaker, taking down the few books which graced the shelves of the library, and evidently pricing them with an unpractised eye. The two gentlemen knew each other, and straightway engaged in a brisk dialogue about the weather. The coast being clear, Mr.
Notwithstanding the energetic objections of Quigg and others, they rushed down stairs into the parlors, where the best furniture was kept, and commenced, taking possession. Rickarts, the shoemaker, seated himself on the top of the piano, and said he considered that his'n.
Being taken aback by the sudden reappearance of the creditors, he did not know what to propose. "Everything fixed, I s'pose?" said Rickarts, the shoemaker. When Matthew was in strong doubt what to do in any case, it was his invariable custom to postpone. "I think," he feebly suggested, "that we had better postpone final action, say till three P.M. It would give us time " "Can't come it!" "No go!"
Whedell's residence had not yet come to claim possession. Creditors are early birds; but the hour sis and a half A.M. was even too early for them; and only one Mr. Rickarts, the shoemaker had called. He had been disposed of in the library, by the servant, under the pretence that Mr. Whedell was not yet up. But Mr.
The man milliner was a powerful fellow, and looked as if his proper vocation were hammering stone or rolling iron, instead of handling flowers and feathers. Rickarts murmured something inaudibly, at first but, on taking a second survey of his neighbor, concluded that he would be more desirable as an ally than as an enemy. "All right," said he; "s'pose we go snacks on this?"
Rickarts, but then I have so many creditors, you see, that I cannot be expected to know them all. I merely wanted to observe, Mr. Rickarts, that, at least, you have not been disappointed in your expectations. Furthermore, that if you had made a bet of ten to one, it wouldn't have been a bad speculation for you." Cries of "Pshaw!" "Humbug!" "Swindled!"
Therefore, I say, let the creditors employ an auctioneer, hang out the red flag, sell, and divide, before that period arrives." The large creditors were silent Quigg veiling his dissatisfaction under a look of complete misanthropy but the small ones, headed by Rickarts, the shoemaker, highly commended it.
But a second after, a man milliner, who had furnished two new bonnets to Miss Clementina on the strength of the brownstone front, took his seat on the other end of the piano, and gave Mr. Rickarts distinctly to understand that he was glued to it.
The allusion to magnanimity produced some derisive laughs, which slightly nettled Matthew. "Auction it off," said he, "or we throw ourselves back on our reserved rights." At this hint, everybody gave in; and a committee, consisting of Quigg, Rickarts, and the butter man, was appointed to make all the arrangements for an immediate sale.
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