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He had his back to me I did not know which of the two he was. I thought nothing of the matter, and went on. In another minute I was at the pawn-shop. I opened the door, walked in, and went straight to the little parlour I had been there just twice before when Daniel Multenius was alone, and so I knew my way. I went, I say, straight through and in the parlour doorway ran into Stephen Purvis.
It's fortunate, too, in a way, 'cause I found out by accident years afterward that my fourth weddin'-ring come out of a pawn-shop, an' I never took much joy out of wearin' it. Bein' just alike, I wore another one mostly, even when Samuel was alive, but he never noticed.
There stood the old barrack, staring emptily out of its black windows. The cold had stripped away the last shred of figured curtain, and sent it packing to the pawn-shop.
"But where did he pick it up?" "From his father or his uncle. Don't ask me! Half of 'em must have been born within earshot o' the barracks." "There's a rear-rank man lookin' as though his belly were in the pawn-shop. Yes, you, Private Ansell," and Stalky tongue-lashed the victim for three minutes, in gross and in detail. "Hullo!" He returned to his normal tone. "First blood to me.
And we'll put the money for a diamond ring into a big davenport.... Are we going to be dreadfully poor?" "Oh, not pawn-shop poor. I made VanZile boost my salary, last week, and with my Touricar stock I'm getting a little over four thousand dollars a year." "Is that lots or little?" "Well, it 'll give us a decent apartment and a nearly decent maid, I guess.
You think I I won't allow you to speak to me in that way. "Oh, cut that out, it won't wash here. Now, listen! I've got to get that mantilla, see? And I'm going to get it if I go through every pawn-shop in town with a fine-tooth comb. I orter to have had better sense than to let you take it out of the shop. Now open up, and I'll help you straighten out things. Where is it?
One may even learn to laugh at the picture of one's thoughts. But to laugh at a soul No! A man's soul is too dreadful a thing to laugh at." He staggered out into the night. On his way home he went into a pawn-shop and bought a pistol. He was in a fever to get back to his lodgings. He found Minetti waiting for him. He tried to conceal the pistol, but he knew that Minetti had seen it.
He had redeemed his better coat from the pawn-shop before he left, that she had noticed. Here was his old one. What rustled under her hand in the pocket? The paper! "O father!" Yes, it fitted; jagged end to jagged end, letter to letter, and even the part which Esther had considered blank had its tallying mark with the larger piece, its tails of ys and gs.
Our jail is without inmates, except the sheriff, for more than half the time." Other instances of local prohibition in this country could be given, but these are sufficient. Bessbrook, a town in Ireland of four thousand inhabitants, has no liquor-shop, and whisky and strong drink are strictly prohibited. There is no poor-house, pawn-shop or police-station.
In less than two years Philip became one of these wretches. At first I tried to reform him, and sometimes, ashamed of himself, he would attempt to do better; but that did not last long. Then my remonstrances only irritated him; and when I went to his house, and he saw me look sadly around the chamber made bare by the pawn-shop, at poor Catherine, thin and pale with grief, he became furious.
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