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Updated: May 5, 2025
"If I hid them at home, they'd be found; if I dropped them in the street, some hullaballoo might arise from it." "Let's carry them back to the old-iron shop, and get the fellow to buy them back at half-price!" "Catch him doing that! Besides, the trick is sure to get wind in the town; he might be capable of coming forward and declaring that we bought the keys at his shop."
His lordship promised that he would recommend his house to all his family and friends. "What a contrast," said Mowbray, as soon as Jacob had left the room, "there is between Jacob and his old rival, Dutton! That fellow has turned out very ill drunken, idle dog is reduced to an old-iron shop, I believe always plaguing me with begging letters.
The father and mother still ate their nuts and dry bread, their herrings and parched peas fricasseed in salt butter, while for Veronique nothing was thought too choice and good. "Veronique must cost you a pretty penny," said a hatmaker who lived opposite to the Sauviats and had designs on their daughter for his son, estimating the fortune of the old-iron dealer at a hundred thousand francs.
"Here we are; come in quick," replied Hache. He was a bold-looking, black-haired man, red-faced, unshaven, and battered with the effects of brandy-drinking. They turned into a grimy old-iron shop. A woman sitting in a corner fixed her eyes upon them like a watch-dog.
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