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Within a month he would take to himself the entire trade of the neighbourhood. "It's a cinch," murmured Mr. Ring with a glad smile, as he boarded his train, "a lead-pipe cinch." Everybody who has moved about the world at all knows Ring's Come-one Come-all Up-to-date Stores. The main office is in New York.
"Ah," said old Gideon, sipping his scented drink, "virtue may become wearisome, and we may gape during the most fervent prayer, but I gad, John, there is always the freshness of youth in a mint julep. Pour just a few more drops of liquor into mine, if you please want it to rassle me a trifle, you know. Recollect those come-all ye songs we used to sing, going down the river?
A trio of decrepit houses in the High Street were pulled down with a run, and from the ruins there began to rise like a Phoenix the striking building which was to be the Wrykyn Branch of Ring's Come-one Come-all Up-to-date Stores. The sensation among the tradesmen caused by the invasion was, as may be imagined, immense and painful. The thing was a public disaster.
The manager of the Wrykyn Branch of Ring's Come-one Come-all Stores stood at the entrance to his shop on the following afternoon spitting with energy and precision on to the pavement he was a free-born American citizen and eyeing the High Street as a monarch might gaze at his kingdom.
They resembled the shop windows of every other country town in England. There was no dash, no initiative about them. They did not leap to the eye and arrest the pedestrian's progress. They ordered these things, thought Mr. Ring, better in the States. And then something seemed to whisper to him that here was the place to set up a branch of Ring's Come-One Come-All Up-to-date Stores.
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