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Then you will return and marry the constant Alice, and live in economical splendor, on a capital let me see of eighty-seven dollars and odd cents, being the proceeds of a certain auction-sale. Promising, isn't it?" Greenleaf was silent, his pipe out. "Don't be gloomy," continued Easelmann, in a more sympathetic tone. "Let us take a stroll round the Common.
I hated, from the bottom of my heart, the tricks of the vile hagglers! It was perfectly evident that the two rascals had a secret understanding, and had only devised this auction-sale, with the aid of a professional appraiser, to force the bidding on the manuscript I wanted so much up to an outrageous figure. I was completely at their mercy.
Mademoiselle came with letters from the Queen and other ladies of quality, and quite dazzled M. Aubert, the Governor, who proposed to his wife that she should be accommodated in the chateau. She had a restless and managing temper, and her power lasted as long as her merchandise. In 1667 there was an auction-sale of fifty girls without character at Tortuga.
Yet at this auction-sale he looked a distracted, if smiling, whimsical, rather bustling figure of misfortune, with a tragic air of exile, of isolation from all by which he was surrounded. A profound and wayworn loneliness showed in his figure, in his face, in his eyes. The crowd thinned in time, and yet very many lingered to see the last of this drama of lost fortunes.
Yet at this auction-sale he looked a distracted, if smiling, whimsical, rather bustling figure of misfortune, with a tragic air of exile, of isolation from all by which he was surrounded. A profound and wayworn loneliness showed in his figure, in his face, in his eyes. The crowd thinned in time, and yet very many lingered to see the last of this drama of lost fortunes.
Why such works are ever written at all, it is difficult to imagine; but how it is, that, when written, they find publishers, is inconceivable. Great Auction-Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia. New York: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. This little pamphlet, reprinted from the columns of the "New York Tribune," possesses a double interest.
Preparatory to selling Fonthill, he opened the long-sealed place to public exhibition at a guinea a ticket, and sold seventy-two hundred tickets. Then for thirty-seven days he conducted an auction-sale of the treasures at Fonthill, charging a half-guinea admission. He ultimately sold the estate for $1,750,000.
It furnishes the best and most minute description of an auction-sale of slaves that has ever been published; and it admirably illustrates the enterprise and prompt energy which often distinguish the journalism of America above that of any other country. The slave-sale of which it is a record took place on the second and third days of March last, in the city of Savannah.
I knew crops had been short for two years, and, though he was even with the world, the master had not a pound to spare, and depended on the auction-sale for the money to pay for outfit and passage to Canada. I had no right to expect he would pay for me, and all the more that he would have no use for a lad such as I was in his new home.
If you would see the evidence of comprehensive and minute knowledge, of good taste, quick wit, sound judgment, and electrical decision, attend an auction-sale in New York some morning. There will be no lack of fun to season the solemnity of business, nor of the mixture of courtesy and selfishness usual in every gathering, whether for philanthropic, scientific, or commercial purposes.
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