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"I have the honour to explain to you, sir," returned Bellairs, with a miserable assumption of dignity, "fifty thousand was the figure named by my principal; but if you will give me the small favour of two moments at the telephone " "O, nonsense!" said the auctioneer. "If you make no advance I'll knock it down to Mr. Pinkerton." "I warn you," cried the attorney, with sudden shrillness.
Of all the hammers in this busy and hammering world, from the huge forge-hammer with which the brawny blacksmith deals telling blows upon the glowing iron and beats it into shape, to the tiny hammer that the watchmaker so deftly handles, the ivory-headed, ebony-handled instrument of the auctioneer is the most potent.
Felicia was just beginning to wonder whether entering into the ring would push the melodeon too high, and the auctioneer was impatiently tapping his heel on the soap-box platform, when a clear and deliberate voice remarked: "Two dollars and ten cents." Several heads were turned to see the speaker, and women peeped over their husbands' shoulders to look.
"Lizzie Brubaker." "Sold to Lizzie Brubaker." "There," whispered the preacher to Phœbe, "that's one." She smiled and nodded her head. "Here now," called the auctioneer, "here's a fine set of chairs. Bid on them; wink to me if you don't want to call out. My wife said she don't care how many ladies wink to me this afternoon at this sale, but after that she won't have it now then; go ahead!
It took not five minutes to sell the sobbing slaves, the tavern-keeper buying Sukey for the sum of forty-one pounds, and the clergyman announcing himself at the end of the bidding as the purchaser of Peg for thirty-nine pounds, six. Then amidst a silence which told of the interest of the crowd, the auctioneer read out a description of the bounds and acreage of Greenwood, and asked for bids.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am an auctioneer by profession, and if what I tell you is not the truth I am liable to have my licence taken away from me and a heavy imprisonment." He holds the licence across his chest; the sweat pours down his face into his paper collar; his eyes look glazed. When he takes off his hat there is a deep pucker of angry flesh on his forehead. Nobody buys a watch.
We waited nearly an hour, and could hear the hum of voices in the hall, but no words, when Coleman came back, accompanied by a committee, of which I think the two brothers Arrington, Thomas Smiley the auctioneer, Seymour, Truett, and others, were members.
No-one bid against him, so they were knocked down to him for a crown. "You'll pay at once, of course," said the auctioneer. This time the laugh was against the buyer; all knew he had no money. "I'll pay it for him," said Lars Peter, putting the crown on the table. Johansen glared at him for a few minutes; then sat down and began putting on the boots.
The city tumbles by. The city is interested in something vastly complicated. Staring into the little mirror, Fanny sighs and powders her nose. An auctioneer must have a compelling manner. He must be gabby and stentorian, witheringly sarcastic and plaintively cajoling. He must be able to detect the faintest symptoms of avarice and desire in the blink of an eyelid, in the tilt of a head.
He put on his spectacles to read the letter, pursing up his lips and drawing down their corners. "Under the circumstances I will not decline to state my conviction tchah! what fine words the fellow puts! He's as fine as an auctioneer that your son Frederic has not obtained any advance of money on bequests promised by Mr. Featherstone promised? who said I had ever promised?
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