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Updated: June 29, 2025
“I should like to go in and have a look at the prisoners,” Will said after a little chat. “Well, there is no chance of your doing that,” the soldier replied. “Orders are very strict, and only three or four hucksters are allowed to go in, to sell things to them.” “How many are there of them?” “About three thousand.”
But bare had we turned the corner for the linen-draper's shops of Fleet Street when M. Radisson's troubles began. Idlers eyed us with strange looks. Hucksters read our necessitous state and ran at heel shouting their wares. Shopmen saw needy customers in us and sent their 'prentices running.
German faith, French knavery. The world is to find healing in the German soul. We are the heroes the others are hucksters. To be German means to do a thing for its own sake. We are a "race of thinkers and poets." We have Culture, the others merely Civilization. Clearly therefore we are destined for world-dominion; we have only to fall-to.
Why, then remember, we are only hucksters, you and I, I will purchase it by a dishonorable action. I will show you a woman's letters, some letters I was going to burn romantically before I married Instead, I wish you to read them." He pushed the papers lying upon the table toward Lord Brudenel. Afterward Ormskirk turned away and stood looking over the ivy-covered balustrade into the gardens below.
Easy-going vanished from the foreground of the picture. But only to creep back again as the first inspiration passed. Presently the older men, the seasoned politicians, the owners and hucksters, the charming women and the habitual consumers, began to recover from this blaze of moral exaltation. Old habits of mind and procedure reasserted themselves.
Men who fought as your army fought at Manassas must be more than mere sordid hucksters." "And yet it is curious," Mrs. Sprague continued, musingly, "it is we who are warring for an idea and you are warring for property." "How do you mean?" Vincent said, quickly. "You are fighting to continue slavery, to extend it; we to abolish it or limit it. But even I can see that slavery is doomed.
I got some breakfast on the Heath, and walked back to Doctors' Commons, along the watered roads and through a pleasant smell of summer flowers, growing in gardens and carried into town on hucksters' heads, intent on this first effort to meet our altered circumstances.
We have for the same reason omitted the working-girl class and the hucksters; the women of these two sections are the product of efforts made by nine millions of female bimana to rise to the higher civilization. But for its scrupulous exactitude many persons might regard this statistical meditation as a mere joke.
If you wish to see another phase of life, go out on a Saturday evening, from nine o'clock on to eleven, starting on a Beecham's Pill 'bus, and keep to the poorer districts, alighting occasionally to stand with the crowd in the narrower thoroughfares. It is a market night, and the streets will be a moving mass of men and women buying at the hucksters' stalls.
Thou mayst withdraw, Dagon." After the Phoenician had gone, Ramses meditated again; a reaction began in him, "Those hucksters," said he in his heart, "consider me as one of themselves, nay more, they dare to hold up to me a bag of gold from afar so as to extort a treaty! I know not that any of the pharaohs admitted them to such confidence! I must change.
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