bubble-brokers

Updated: May 1, 2025

So deeply were the countenances of these bubble-brokers impressed with attention to the main chance, and their minds seemed so dead to all other sensations, that one might almost doubt, where money is out of the case, whether a Jew 'has eyes, hands, organs, dimensions, affections, passions." But lottery tickets were not the only things offered-for sale at Garraway's.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London