cheapjack's

Updated: May 5, 2025

Ten minutes after the rise of the curtain on the fourth act I was in the dressing-room, presenting the maid with a gold locket which I had bought from a cheapjack's barrow for five and twenty francs almost the last of the fifty which I had received from M. Duval on account.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy - Castles in the Air