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"I forget his name. I've only met him once, here at tea. I think he's a tea-merchant. He seemed to remember me all right." "A tea-merchant! I wonder why Mrs. John put him on her right, then, and Mr. Enwright on her left." George resented the precedence. "Is Mr. Enwright really very great, then?" "Great! You bet he is.... I was in Paris with him in the summer. Whereabouts do you live in Paris?"
He will tell you that Hop Wo does business here as a grocer, that Shun Wo is the butcher, that Shan Tong is the tea-merchant, that Tin Yuk is the apothecary, and that Wo-Ki sells bric-a-brac. Some of the signs, your guide will tell you, are not the real names of the men who do business, that they are only mottoes.
The tea-merchant, who was a small stout man, with a black cap of dubious cut, protested vehemently against such materialistic measures. Let them put their trust in Cultur! To talk Hebrew therein lay Israel's real salvation. Let little children once again lisp in the language of Isaiah and Hosea that was true Zionism. 'Then don't you want the Holy Land? asked the astonished David.
And, anyhow, it will be a long wooing. So in the meantime let me teach you to fire a pistol. 'With all my heart but merely to shoot wild beasts. 'That is all I am asking for, said David grimly. Encouraged by this semi-success, David boldly called upon a tea-merchant quite unknown to him, and asked for a subscription to buy revolvers.
Good openings are scarce, and very often one must be known to get a place." "And some want security," added the boy, relating his interview with the tea-merchant. "Don't have anything to do with that class of men," exclaimed Mr. Joyce emphatically. "They won't give you a cent more than they are forced to, and advancement in their service is out of the question."
So things might have been worse. "Then she made remarks about the tea, for Uncle Samuel was a tea-merchant; and lastly that wicked Janey sent the footman to take the pug dog to walk past the butcher's shop where the fighting terrier lives. You can guess the rest." "Was the pug killed?" asked Anthony. "No, though the poor thing came back in a bad way.
He went down the bay in a small boat, met the enemy on a frank business basis, paid over one hundred eighty thousand dollars in English guineas, and came sailing back to his own calm satisfaction, even if to the embarrassment of the crew. The boat was loaded with tea, and Girard was essentially a tea-merchant.
Well, ma'am, there always were scapegoats, and always will be; we find it comes round pretty square in the end. 'And I may be the scapegoat, Emmy! It is perfectly possible. The grocer, the pork-butcher, drysalter, stationer, tea-merchant, et caetera they sit on me. I have studied the faces of the juries, and Mr. Braddock tells me of their composition.
Mr Slick's the great tea-merchant. That's the great Mandarin, the fastest beast in all creation refused five thousand dollars for him, and so on. Every wrapper I had for my tea had a print of him on it. It was action and reaction, you see. Well, this horse had a very serious fault that diminished his value in my eyes down to a hundred dollars, as far as use and comfort went.
The tea-merchant instantly supported the movement. Miss Ingram herself rose. The affair was at an end. Nothing interesting had been said in the general talk, and little that was sincere. No topic had been explored, no argument taken to a finish. No wit worth mentioning had glinted.
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