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Updated: May 6, 2025
Pettifer, whom he encountered going about in search of bargains, and heard haggling for a handsome table-cover, because it was quite aesthetic, and would not do except in a large house, so of course it had not sold. The Mouse-traps had been a great success, and there were very few left of them.
The purchaser felt the poor girls' limbs, looked into their mouths, and trotted them out to see their paces; then, after haggling for some time, walked off with two which he had selected. The others were purchased much in the same manner; the remainder of the lots were disposed of with much less ceremony.
Going about with them all the while, and possibly haggling with them over the values, was an intending purchaser in the person of a certain Matthew Appletree from London one of those dealers who followed in the wake of the Parliamentary forces as they advanced into Royalist districts, with a view to pick up good bargains for ready money in the confiscated property of Delinquents.
I descended into the courtyard in time to catch the captain in his watchet-blue frock haggling with the landlord for a chaise, the two of them surrounded by a muttering crowd anxious for a glimpse of Mr. Craik's gardener's son, for he had become a nine-day sensation to the country round about.
"Don't be silly," said Sally quickly. "I want three." "No, that's all rot," protested Ginger. "I mean to say three. I don't," he went on, making a concession, "mind saying twenty." "If you insist, I'll make it five. Not more." "Well, ten, then?" "Five!" "Suppose," said Ginger insinuatingly, "I said seven?" "I never saw anyone like you for haggling," said Sally with disapproval. "Listen! Six.
"Is that true?" "Be there at eleven o'clock." "Hey! there's honor for you! good measure and running over!" she cried with naive admiration. "Look here, my good monsieur, I am doing a fine trade with your little red-head. He's a nice young fellow; he lets me earn a fair penny without haggling over it, so that I may get an equivalent for that loss.
That's my idea of heaven to have a great collection drop into one's hand, as success, or love, or any of the big shining things, drop suddenly on some men. And I've had to worry along for nearly fifty years, saving and paring, and haggling and intriguing, to get here a bit and there a bit and not one perfection in the lot! It's enough to poison a man's life."
After much haggling, especially on the part of the handsome Igah, they agreed to receive twenty Tobes, three bundles of tobacco, and fourteen cubits of indigo-dyed cotton. In addition to this I offered as a bribe one of my handsome Abyssinian shirts with a fine silk fringe made at Aden, to be received by the man Beuh on the day of entering the Gerad's village.
Say 'For service rendered I give bearer all my rights in Golden West mining claim California. I sign. Quick." And he motioned for the pencil. Charley held the pad, and watched him feebly scrawl a "T" and what might have been an "o" and a haggling "m"; and then the pencil dropped.
He got up, a little shaken but unhurt, and stood close to the wall, looking all about quickly. A party of gaily dressed gallants were haggling with the horse-boys at the sheds; but they did not even look at him. A passing carter stared up at the window, measuring the distance with his eye, whistled incredulously, and trudged on.
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