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Early the following morning, the Collector, with a suitable escort, proceeded on their way to Runjetpoora, the place to which they were returning when they were so ruthlessly set upon by the atrocious mutineers.
My eyesight's poor," he explained to the Collector, "and I can't walk, because " here he stated an organic complaint very frankly. "As for M'ria, she's an eye like a fish-hawk; but you never saw such a born fool with firearms. Well, must heat some water, I reckon, to bathe the poor maid's back." "First give her food," said the Collector.
"Go ahead." "I want to see one particular officer." "Which particular officer?" "Vance." "You want to see Vance?" "Yes." "Go and tell the collector." "That won't do." "Why not?" "I've been sold once, and this time I'm going to work my racket differently; do you know Vance by, sight?" "Do you mean Spencer Vance?" "Yes." "I know him, and I'll introduce you to him if you want me to do so."
"Under these circumstances, therefore, only an experienced collector can judge of my surprise and inward satisfaction, when on the 12 January, 1855, at Sotheby's, at one of the sales of Pickering's stock, after untying parcel after parcel to see what I might chance to see, and keeping ahead of the auctioneer, Mr.
Thomas Coxeter, I found that he had bought my Langbaine of a bookseller who was a great collector of plays and poetical books. His autobiography shows that he soon restored his literary losses. His patron, Lord Oxford, for whom he afterwards worked as librarian, was anxious to buy everything that was rare.
"I beg pardon, my dear sir; but, perhaps, you had better adjourn your visit till to-morrow I am a stranger, you know." "And are, therefore, the more bound to show civility, I should suppose. But I beg your pardon for mentioning a word that perhaps belongs only to a collector of antiquities I am one of the old school,
"Probably there are h'already brakesmen on your train." "I have no doubt." "In that case I shall ride with you as private person." "Ride back and forth every day?" "Those are my h'expectations, sar." "That costs money." "You will be collector," remarked the negro, calmly. "I should like to see those train people h'expel me, in that case." "Well!
'Well, says he, speaking very slowly, 'if I lent you my bowl, you could pretend it's hers and she'll never know the difference, for they are as like as two peas. I can tell the difference, of course, but then I'm a collector. If I lend you the bowl, will you promise and vow in writing, and sign it with your name, to sell all that china to me directly it comes into your possession?
He was not allowed to engage in the work of an ordinary laborer, since that might damage Spain's prestige, but somehow obtained the position of collector of taxes on vehicles. He had no education whatever, and the natives soon found it out. A Spaniard who cannot read and write is a wonder to them, and hence he became the subject of all sorts of ridicule.
Carlyle; next, he had been seduced into joining the corps of the Theatre Royal at Lynneborough; then he turned auctioneer; then travelling in the oil and color line; then a parson, the urgent pastor of some new sect; then omnibus driver; then collector of the water rate; and now he was clerk again, not in Mr. Carlyle's office, but in that of Ball & Treadman, other solicitors of West Lynne.
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