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After this the brothers went out to buy horses, and the monkey boy went with them and as he had no money he took nothing but a coil of rope; his brothers were ashamed to have him with them and drove him away, so he went on ahead and got first to the place where the horsedealer lived.
Through their very regardlessness the Pennies would have been apt to rout the Seminary whose boys had given pledges to respectability, and who had to answer searching questions as to their personal appearance every evening had it not been for stalwarts like McGuffie, whose father, being a horsedealer, did not apply an over strict standard of judgment to his son's manners or exploits, and Robertson, who lived in lodgings and, being a soldier's son, was supposed to be in a state of discipline for the Army.
The next day I went out to look at the horses in the stables, and began with the famous horsedealer Sitnikov's. I went through a gate into a yard strewn with sand. Before a wide open stable-door stood the horsedealer himself a tall, stout man no longer young, in a hareskin coat, with a raised turnover collar.
I soon gathered from him that he was a horsedealer from Bala, and that he had been out on the road with his servant to break a horse. I astonished the old man with my knowledge of Welsh and horses, and learned from him for conceiving I was one of the right sort, he was very communicative two or three curious particulars connected with the Welsh mode of breaking horses.
All that which a man wounded in his self-love could let fall in the shape of imprecations and reproaches upon the head of a woman Porthos let fall upon the bowed head of the procurator's wife. "Alas," said she, "I did all for the best! One of our clients is a horsedealer; he owes money to the office, and is backward in his pay.
No one propensity of his was outrageously extravagant; and it is certain that Paddington's tailor's account; Guttlebury's cook's bill for dinners; Dillon Tandy's bill with Finn, the print seller, for Raphael-Morgheus and Landseer proofs, and Wormall's dealings with Parkton, the great bookseller, for Aldine editions, black-letter folios, and richly illuminated Missals of the XVI. Century; and Snaffle's or Foker's score with Nile the horsedealer, were, each and all of them, incomparably greater than any little bills which Mr.
What would ye think of me if I knockit one of them down, ye double-distilled old fool? "I'm astonished at ye, for ye might be pleased to think that the laddies, instead of copying a horsedealer, are trying to be magistrates.
And, secondly, I had an acquaintance in Tula, a horsedealer; I might buy a horse off him to take the place of the disabled shaft-horse. 'The thing's decided! I thought; 'I'll drive over myself; I can sleep just as well on the road luckily, the coach is comfortable. 'I've brought him! cried Yermolai, rushing into the hut a quarter of an hour later.
'He is only one among a hundred a thousand, the horsedealer continued, looking at me and nodding with meaning. He was a brown-haired man with shrewd grey eyes, such as many Normans have. 'They will get their way too, you will see, he went on.
But in the meantime let me remind you that your tricks as a horsedealer would not go far to recommend you as a guest to my kinswoman." "Oh?" "Who shall assuredly hear who seized her mare if you persist in forcing your company upon her." "Upon her?" Asgill repeated, in a peculiar tone. "I see." Colonel John reddened. "You know now," he said. "And if you persist "
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