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If my father peace be upon him hadn't had your narrow notions, I should have gone to the Bar instead of being condemned to shop-keeping. 'You are a very good devil's advocate now, retorted the minister. Simeon Samuels stroked his beard. 'Thank you. And I congratulate your client. 'And mine too. The minister strode into the shop. At the street-door he turned.
The Montezuma, the Patrick Henry, and the Southampton crossed from New York to Liverpool in fifteen days, and for years the Independence held the record of fourteen days and six hours. It remained for the Dreadnought, Captain Samuel Samuels, in 1859, to set the mark for packet ships to Liverpool at thirteen days and eight hours.
'He sells shoddy new reach-me-downs as pawned old clo, complained Lazarus Levy, who had taken over S. Cohn's business, together with his daughter Deborah, 'and he charges the Sudminster donkey-heads more than the price we ask for 'em as new. Talk of the devil ! At this point Simeon Samuels stalked into the synagogue, late but serene.
The Judge attempted to interrupt, but Mr. Carvel stopped him. "Suppose you deprive me of my few slaves, you do not ruin me. Yet you do me as great a wrong as you do my friend Samuels, of Louisiana, who depends on the labor of five hundred. Shall I stand by selfishly and see him ruined, and thousands of others like him?"
"Well, I don't want anything; and let me say, I don't approve of this touting for custom. I thought Mr. Samuels was above it." The man bowed. "My business is not that, sir. Ahem! I dare say you remember an opal you had from our house. It was set in a necklace." "All right; I remember it, perfectly," said Algernon; cool, but not of the collected colour. "The cost of it was fifty-five pounds, sir."
"Yes," Algernon prolonged an affirmative, to diminish the confidence it might inspire, if possible. "May I speak with you, sir?" Algernon told him to follow in. The man was tall and large-featured, with an immense blank expression of face. "I've come from Mr. Samuels, sir," he said, deferentially. Mr. Samuels was Algernon's chief jeweller. "Oh," Algernon remarked.
It would always take me nearly a whole day to get him thawed out, and the least thing would make him freeze up again. "I remember one time I went to see him you recall him, old man Samuels and, after a great deal of coaxing, got him to come into my sample room in the afternoon.
Samuels to think better of us Gentiles. Write me a receipt." "For what amount, sir?" said the man, briskly. "For the value of the opal that is to say, for the value put upon it by Mr. Samuels. Con! hang! never mind. Write the receipt." He cast a fluttering fifty and a fluttering five on the table, and pushed paper to the man for a receipt. The man reflected, and refused to take them.
"It wouldn't do any good." "Yes, it would, it would relieve my feelings. It's a pretty how de do, to send a man here to represent his constituents and then put the whole power of the house into the hands of the speaker and the committee on rules." Bradley's seat came between two of the old members, Samuels of Mississippi and Col.
'That is fortunate, as I have just sold my last. But in the way of waterproofs, we have a new pattern, very seasonable. 'No, no; I didn't come for a waterproof. 'These oilskins 'I didn't come to buy anything. 'Ah, you wish to sell me something. 'Not that either. The fact is, I've come to beg of you, as one Jew to another 'A Schnorrer! interrupted Simeon Samuels.
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