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Updated: June 16, 2025
You could squash it up in one hand, it was that soft. That's why she took such care of it, putting it back in that box every night to keep the dust out of it." "Well, what's the matter with your coming along with me?" "And where are you going to take me?" "To one or two pawn-shops around here." "Well, I'm not going with you. If I go anywhere it will be up to Rosenthal's. I'm getting worried.
Enter any one of the pawn-shops licensed by the city authorities, and cast your eye over the motley collection of unredeemed articles. There are pistols of every pattern and almost of every age, the majority of them loaded.
She felt that she must see everything done herself, if only to distract her thoughts from more painful matters. The place was half full of people, most of them with anxious faces, and all having some object or other in their hands. The pawn-shops do their best business in the evening.
The head Chinaman produced various curios so considered for inspection, these being sent for from the pawn-shops close by. The Wodena volunteered the information that large quantities of opium were consumed in the district. This meant, as there were no Chinese, the habitual use of this drug amongst the people. After this walk the little procession wended its way back to the Wodena's house.
"Do you know the pawn-shops around here?" he asked, becoming suddenly confidential. "Not one of them, and don't want to," came the contemptuous reply. "When I get as low down as that, I've got a brother to help me. He'll be up here himself to-night and will tell you so." Pickert had been standing over her throughout the interview, despite her invitation to be seated.
That will be an easy matter.... And that brings me to a great favour I would beg of you." She gave him a look so unexpectedly kind that it staggered him. But he had himself well in hand. "You can't now leave Paris before morning thanks to my having overslept," he explained. "There's no honest way I know to raise money before the pawn-shops open.
Even today our American pawn-shops display the three golden balls which were part of the coat of arms of the mighty house of the Medici, who became rulers of Florence and married their daughters to the kings of France and were buried in graves worthy of a Roman Caesar.
In truth, some of my richest experiences have been in exploring with Jimmie tiny second-hand shops, pawn-shops, and dark, almost squalid corners, where, amid piles of rubbish, we found some really exquisite treasures. Mrs.
Scarcely around the corner on the next business street he hurried into a telephone booth. "I called up First Deputy O'Connor," he explained as he left the booth a quarter of an hour later. "You know it is the duty of two of O'Connor's men to visit all the pawn-shops of the city at least once a week, looking over recent pledges and comparing them with descriptions of stolen articles.
The throngs of customers that keep the pawn-shops crowded with pledges are probably most of them victims of the gambling table or the opium den. They come from every house that employs them; your domestic is impatient of delay, and hastens through his daily task in order that he may nightly indulge his darling sin.
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