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She at first screamed, but they soon made her silent, and then proceeded to carry off the show-glass, with all the boxes that were contained in it. Not long after this they broke off the padlock from a toy-shop in Swithin's Alley, in Cornhill.
'There's better than a toy-shop a wonderful sort of place they call a bazaar, Rough replied. 'You may walk all round and look at the things without having to buy, and there's one part where all the toys are only a penny. Biddy clasped her hands in ecstasy. 'Oh, mamma, she said, 'may we go and see it to-morrow? Oh, I'm sure Seacove is ever so much nicer than London! Mr. Vane smiled.
The greater part of the next day was spent in H , a snug town with a little park like a clean handkerchief, streets with coloured shops, neat and fresh-painted like toys from a toy-shop, little blue trains, statues of bewigged eighteenth-century kings and dukes, and a restaurant, painted Watteau-fashion with bright green groves, ladies in hoops and powder, and long-legged sheep.
One kite went up some way, just sufficient to exhibit its ugliness, but wavered and rolled about in the most extraordinary manner, evidently showing that it was lop-sided. It received shouts, but they were not of applause, and they were accompanied by hisses, which the Doctor, however, repressed. The kite received in this unflattering way was Blackall's boasted toy-shop production.
And surely, if we consider them seriously, and compare them together, we shall be forced to conclude all those pomps and pleasures of which men are so fond, and which, through so much danger and difficulty, with such violence and villany, they pursue, to be as worthless trifles as any exposed to sale in a toy-shop.
On the evening of the second day from Pisa, we reached the beautiful old city of Siena. There was what they called a Carnival, in progress; but, as its secret lay in a score or two of melancholy people walking up and down the principal street in common toy-shop masks, and being more melancholy, if possible, than the same sort of people in England, I say no more of it.
In his youth Jacob Dombey, jun., had been pampered and petted beyond measure, his every whim being carried out even at great expense; arrived at the age of twenty-one he became enamored of a young lady whose father kept a small toy-shop on Notre Dame street, and nothing would content him but a marriage with the "Goddess," as his innamorata was called.
It was a trifle common-place, perhaps; there were a good many hotels and little excursion steamers about; and perhaps here and there a suggestion of the toy-shop. But it was pretty. Indeed, towards sunset, it was very nearly becoming something more.
In another part was a cottage with puppets the size of life moving by clock-work; a peasant smoking and turning a reel to wind off the thread which his 'goed vrow' is spinning upon a wheel, while a most sheep-like dog is made to open his mouth and to bark a dog which is, doubtless, the progenitor of all the barking, toy-shop dogs of the world.
"'Good, says I. 'Then telegraph to the first place east to send one hundred dollars' worth of toys out here on Number Three. Here's your money. "Well, he picked away, and then we waited. Bimeby we got the foolishest kind of answer: 'What sort of toys? How much of each? etc. "'Michael and the Archangels all, says I, 'how am I supposed to know? Ain't that part of a toy-shop man's business?
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