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How strange it was that two men, so widely dissimilar as Robert and the vendor of newspapers, should insist on the skill, the unerring certainty, of their opponent. "Mrs. Capella," he said, wheeling round upon the lady, "when you lived in London or on the Continent did you ever include any Japanese in the circle of your acquaintances?" "Yes," was the reply.
I reached so far, in the dream, as to buy several novels of the Chinese, printed in their characters, of an itinerant vendor.... The everyday world swung into my ken again. Three junks, laden with American marines, dropping down the river from Pekin, cut across my abstracted gaze ... the boys were singing. They marched off on the dock on which I sat.
He was sure that by the terms of his deed, which his father had from its vendor, Squire Bates, his line included the Moses' tables on which Purdee had built so fallacious a repute of holiness. He looked once more at the paper "thence from Crystal Spring with Purdee's line north seven hundred poles to a stake in the middle of the river." Purdee too was all a-quiver with eagerness.
Nobody, however, troubles about his comrade's antecedents in the West, where many men have a somewhat vivid history. The new land accepts them for what they are in the present, leaving the past to the mother country. So a bargain was made, and the vendor received his first instalments; and as that winter sped I looked forward, half-fearful, half-exultant, to what the coming year should bring.
But Ned had no occasion to be ashamed of himself, for his face and appearance showed clearly that he had indeed been enabled to resist temptation, and that he had risen to a higher position in the social scale than a vendor of ginger-beer. In the background might have been seen Hopkins tall and dignified as ever, with Matty Merryon at his side.
But if the vendor has fraudulently induced him to believe that what he was buying was not sacred, or was private property, as he cannot legally have what he contracted for, he can bring the action on purchase to recover damages for what he has lost by the fraud; and the same rule applies to the purchase of a free man represented by the vendor to be a slave.
The vendor can in principle be remunerated for his trouble. It is well that he should be so remunerated; it is socially useful, and is used as a basis for fixing price; but it cannot in any way be said that this forms the objective measure of value, but that the work and expense are a sufficient title of remuneration for the fixing of the just price of the sale of a thing.
On every side the voice babbled of the Duma babbled happily, as though the word was a new religious charm or a witch's incantation. Crude political conversations broke out amid all the business of the mart. He had only to listen to know how he would be answered: A blacksmith buying a new hammer stayed to argue with the vendor. 'We must put our trust in the Constitutional Democrats.
One boy trundled a peanut roaster, and another was a vendor of lemonade. When ready to start, the Maynard children and their carts presented a pretty appearance. The dolls were arranged in a light pushcart, borrowed from the grocer. It was decorated with frills of crêpe paper, and big paper bows at the corners.
Its proceedings created the acutest public interest, drawn out over long months, up to the day when Sir Charles Russell had before him in the witness-box the original vendor of the letters one Pigott.
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