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After this he hung about the door until he saw the auctioneer appear alone, when it occurred to him that the purchaser and the purchased must have departed by some other exit, perhaps in order to avoid further observation. He ran round the building to find himself confronted only by the empty, star-lit spaces of the Forum.
"Come, now, young un," said the auctioneer, giving the boy a touch with his hammer, "be up and show your springs, now." "Put us two up togedder, togedder, do please, Mas'r," said the old woman, holding fast to her boy. "Be off," said the man, gruffly, pushing her hands away; "you come last.
The farm land had been fetching on an average some twenty to twenty-five pounds an acre. . . . Why was Mrs Bosenna not here? On an impulse annoyed, perhaps, by the young farmer's take-it-for-granted tone he called out "Thirty!" The auctioneer and Mr Baker who had just signified, by a slight frown, that he could not accept the young farmer's bid glanced up incuriously.
As the poor woman got down, she cast a furtive glance at her children, who, although the auctioneer certainly tried to prevent it, were sold to two individuals, neither of whom was the purchaser of the parent. The poor woman looked about in great despair while the bidding was going on.
"Well, gentlemen, we must really adopt the friendly suggestion of Judge Lee and chuck this nigger into the next lot." So the auctioneer was saying, when the broker to whom I have referred cried out, "Ten dollars." "This is more like business," cried the auctioneer. "Ten dollars offered! What amateur says more than ten dollars for this lot?
"This auction-room," said the auctioneer, master of the gay or grave at a moment's notice, "is supported by the public and the trade; it is not supported by paupers." A Jew upholsterer put in his word. "I do my own business; but I like to let a poor man live." "Jonathan," said the auctioneer to one of his servants, "after this sale you may put up the shutters; we have gone and offended Mr. Jacobs.
The oratory of the American auctioneer, however, greatly surpasses that of the Englishman in vivacity and fun. But this movement and throng, together with the white glow of the sun on the pavements, make the scene, in my recollection, assume an American aspect, and this is strange in so antique and quaint a town as Coventry.
Klingensmith, too, had put the clothing taken from the bodies, blood-stained, shredded by bullets and knives, into the cellar of the tithing office at Cedar City. Here there had been, a few weeks later, a public auction of the property taken, the Bishop, who presided as auctioneer, facetiously styling it "plunder taken at the siege of Sebastopol."
Here the busy auctioneer called again, "Attention, everybody! This piece of furniture we are going to sell now dates back to ante-bellum days." "Ach, it don't," Phœbe heard a voice exclaim. "That never belonged to any person called Bellem; that was old Amanda Brubaker's for years and she used to tell me that it belonged to her grandmother once.
As the sale proceeded, the discredit of Hansard became plainer and plainer. For the copyright, including, of course, the goodwill of the name the right to call yourself 'Hansard' for years to come not a penny was offered, and yet, as the auctioneer feelingly observed, only eighteen months ago it was valued at £60,000.
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