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Sheldon told me that I had a claim to some money; but I have not thought much about it, except that I should give you Grote and Macaulay in dark-brown calf, with bevelled boards and red edges, like that edition you saw at the auctioneer's in Bond Street, and have talked about ever since; and a horse, perhaps; and a glass porch to our cottage."
It is true that Hardin was a Whig, and that by this time there was a pretty clear division between Whigs and Jackson men on offices as well as measures, so that the contest was a party as well as a personal affair; but from auctioneer's clerk to district attorney was a promotion hardly to be won in a year by a youth of qualities less than extraordinary.
We have a good deal of the bottom of the sea that brings fair prices in consequence of being well mapped." Here the gentlemen expressed their sense of the auctioneer's politeness, and retired. "We will now go into the sales-room," said John Effingham, "where you shall judge of the spirit, or energy, as it is termed, which, at this moment, actuates this great nation."
But he was accessory after the act in that piece of illegality in fact, it was absolutely certain that he had been accessory before the act, and guilty of conspiracy with the man who had presented firearms to the auctioneer's audience, and who had interfered with an officer in the discharge of his duty by threatening me and my men.
There was no response. Brannan's gavel fell, decisively. "Sold!" he cried, and half a dozen voices cheered. Inez Windham made her way to the auctioneer's stand and handed three banknotes to Alcalde Hyde. "But, my dear young lady," he expostulated, "you need only pay a fourth of the money down. Six dollars and a quarter is enough."
During these meditations several articles of feminine apparel had come and gone under the hammer. The crowd had decreased somewhat and his position now commanded a clear view of the auctioneer's platform, and he realized that the fierce light of the arc lamps beat down upon as charming a costume as he had seen for many a day.
But this did I learn, that Lord Cardigan has won deathless fame by attaching his name to a knit jacket, just as the name Jaeger will go clattering down the corridors of time attached to a "combination suit." This splendid old mansion was once the ancestral home of a branch of the noble family of Cardigan. What an all-powerful thing is an auctioneer's hammer!
"But I've heard that there is so much 'science' to making or mending a birch bark canoe that an amateur always makes the job worse." "Haw, haw, haw!" came boisterously from Fred Ripley. He and Mr. Dodge were now standing before the table of the auctioneer's clerk. Fred was paying down the remaining twenty-six dollars on the price he had bid for the handsome chestnut pony.
"Same here," and Pete grinned. "But it don't worry me none." "I'll make out the check for you." And Andover pulled out his fountain pen and stepped over to the auctioneer's stand. Pete signed the check and handed it to the auctioneer. "Don't know this man," said the auctioneer, as he glanced at the signature. "I'll endorse it," volunteered Andover quickly. "All right, Doc."
He stepped over, paid the money for Dick, then said: "I must be going. Turn the canoe over to my son." "Yes, sir," replied the auctioneer's clerk. "Men, haul out the truck that has the canoe on." Mr. Prescott had already walked away. Dick and his chums greeted the coming of truck and canoe with a wild whoop. Then they piled up on the truck to inspect their treasure.
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