bidders-to-be

Updated: May 28, 2025

The bidders-to-be number half a hundred, and their eager faces are directed toward the august official of the government, each probably praying secretly to his god that undue competition be not inspired to the extent of excluding bargains. In the throng are chetties.

Frederic Courtland Penfield - East of Suez: Ceylon, India, China and Japan