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Old clothesmen, likewise, dwelt hard by, and hung out ancient garments to dangle in the wind.
'You remember he whispered something in my father's ear? 'I remember. 'He spoke it in Hebrew, and he was understood. 'You do not mean that you, too, are Jews? 'Pure Sephardim, in nature and in name. 'But your name surely is Italian? 'Good Arabic, my lord. Baroni; that is, the son of Aaron; the name of old clothesmen in London, and of caliphs at Bagdad. The Mountains of Lebanon
Say he carried the Shop about, on his back rather like Jew clothesmen with too much business. 'Which, said Mrs Merdle, rising, with her floating drapery about her, 'is exactly my complaint. Edmund, give me your arm up-stairs. Mr Merdle, left alone to meditate on a better conformation of himself to Society, looked out of nine windows in succession, and appeared to see nine wastes of space.
Without the proof of such matriculation he could not be drawn for any office, or exercise any magistracy, or even have his name put into the bags. The arts were these: i. Calimala, iii. Exchange, iv. Wool; Porta Santa Maria, or the Arts of; v. Silk; vi. Physicians and Apothecaries; vii. Furriers. The others were viii. Butchers, ix. Shoemakers, x. Blacksmiths, xi. Linen-drapers and Clothesmen, xii.
They wished to insist on David leaving for America. He refused. They contented themselves with Belgium. On the 19th December he reached Brussels. He came to see me, and said to me, "I am lodging at the Grand Monarque, 89, Rue des Fripiers." And he added laughing, "The Great Monarch the King. The old clothesmen the Royalists, '89. The Revolution." Chance occasionally furnishes some wit.
Interspersed with these, are the advertisements of Jewish clothesmen, informing the judicious seamen where he can procure of the best and the cheapest; together with ambiguous medical announcements of the tribe of quacks and empirics who prey upon all seafaring men.
Vagabond ballad-singers and story-tellers creatures who wander from house to house, mending broken pottery, collecting rags or selling small pedlar's wares were the old clothesmen who carried about these bits of tarnished poetic finery.
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