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"Your wife?" "Yes, monsieur." "Then then you do not live together-in Paris?" "I beg your pardon, monsieur, but we are living together!" "But in that case you must be mad, altogether mad, my dear sir, to get caught playing lovers in the country at ten o'clock in the morning." The haberdasher seemed ready to cry with shame, and he muttered: "It was she who enticed me!
They did not, any of them, spend their time in vain lamentations: ready money was wanting to rebuild the house and barns, and James sold to a haberdasher in Monmouth all of his stock which had been saved out of the fire, and brought the money to his father. "Father," said he, "you gave this to me when you were able to afford it; you want it now, and I can do very well without it.
I cannot resist giving one other illustration, though superfluous: when a haberdasher winds up ribbon for a customer, he does not wind it into a single coil; for, if he did, the ribbon would twist itself as many times as there were coils; but he winds it into a figure of eight on his thumb and little finger, so that he alternately takes turns in opposite directions, and thus the ribbon is not twisted.
As for M. Lecoq, who, in presence of the judge, had resumed his haberdasher manner, he was so much surprised that he nearly strangled himself with a lozenge. "A thousand devils!" exclaimed he. "That's tough, that is!" He smiled sillily, and added in a low tone, meant only for Plantat's ear. "Mighty tough! Though quite foreseen in our calculations.
Driving about from place to place, living jovially at inns, seeing fresh faces constantly, and getting money by all this enjoyment, instead of spending it what a life for me, if I had been the son of a haberdasher and the grandson of a groom's widow!
Finally he handed it across the table to the haberdasher. The dull yellow sun of a winter morning drifted in from the white outdoors; the fire sputtered gaily in the grate. Also, Mr. Peters' failing for literature interfered in no way with his talents as cook. The three finished the repast in great good humor, and Mr. Magee handed round cigars.
The only trace of Davy's old master was found in a Coventry ribbon put out by 'a whimsical haberdasher, with the motto from Johnson's Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane in 1747 'Each change of many colour'd life he drew. Boswell had a free hand as a writer for the London Magazine, in which he had a proprietary interest.
Kurtz protested that he was not a haberdasher, but he was constrained to admit that Bob had the right idea of smart business, and after some discussion accepted his employee's nonchalant offer to go halves on the new venture and share in its profits. The fact that Bob had no money with which to carry through his part of the deal troubled that youth not in the least Kurtz's credit was ample.
The first in consequence among the young ladies were the two daughters of Mr Tippet, the haberdasher; then came the hatter's daughter, Miss Beaver. The grades appeared to be as follows: manufactures held the first rank; then dry goods, as the tea-dealers, grocers, etcetera; the third class consisted of the daughters of the substantial butchers and pastrycooks.
Then taking from her bosom her little purse, she found it to contain no more than twenty louis in bankpaper, which she paid to the haberdasher as a deposit for the veil, at the same time desiring him to send one of his men with her to her homme d'affaires or agent, in order that he might bring back the other sixty.
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