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These had recognized the strangers for Americans, and one of them explained that Americans spoke the same language as the English and yet were not quite the same people. "She differs from the girl in the book-store," said March, translating to his wife. "Let us get away before she says that we are not so nice as the English," and they made off toward the avenue of trees beyond the lawn.
The white ball in the very centre of the table, and the red just standing on the verge of the end pocket! What does it mean, Edwards, what does it mean?" He had grasped Edwards by the arm and was peering into his face. "I don't know," said the Inspector. "I don't play billiards." "Neither do I," said Kent, "but I can find out. Quick! The nearest book-store. I must buy a book on billiards."
It was a realm unknown to her, and yet the very suggestion of it evoked yearnings. And she recalled a picture in the window of Hartmann's book-store, a coloured print before which she used to stop on her way to and from the office, the copy of a landscape by a California artist.
But of course there are some grand magazines which are known all the world over, and which no one should leave London without entering as a looker-on, if not as a purchaser. There was one place I determined to visit, and one man I meant to see, before returning. The place was a certain book-store or book-shop, and the person was its proprietor, Mr. Bernard Quaritch.
The old "corner book-store" at the intersection of Washington and School Streets, in the city of Boston, is one of the most notable places in the New England metropolis.
She had drawn off her gloves, and now thrust a pink hand into her pocket and got out a handkerchief, in a corner of which were tied some coins. "I want you to step into the book-store and get me a Second Reader the sort they use in the public schools over there. It's for little Joe. I'm learning him to read, and he's doing it as fast as a dog can trot."
It is known that she went first to the public library, then that she stopped at a department store on the avenue, where she made a small purchase which she had charged to our family account, and finally that she went to a large book-store. Then that is the last." Mrs. Gilbert sighed, and buried her face in a lace handkerchief as her shoulders shook convulsively.
I was shown, in the center of Chicago, the first sky-scraper that the world had ever seen. I visited with admiration what was said to be the largest department store in the world. I visited with a natural rapture the largest book-store in the world. I could easily credit, from the evidence of my own eyes, that it is the greatest railway center in the world.
And Faith told it with cheeks burning and eyes shining, but yet quite as if she'd been born and brought up in the knowledge. "It don't seem to move you much, Faith," said I, perfectly amazed, although I'd frequently expected something of the kind. "Well, I may never get it, and so on. If I do, I'll give you a silk dress and set you up in a book-store. But here's a queerer thing yet.
Gales went on with his journal, and when it had grown quite flourishing, he added to his printing-office the inviting appendage of a book-store, which also flourished. In the progress of both, it became necessary that he should employ a clerk. That youth was James Montgomery, the poet. On the 10th of April, 1786, Mrs.
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