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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Thus, my dear young lady, the terror which drove you to this house, and the sufferings which have confined you in it, will prove, in the event, the source of your future peace: for when all my best rhetorick failed to melt Mr Delvile, I instantly brought him to terms by coupling his name with a pawnbroker's!
Martin took the directly opposite course; and so, to his great content, they parted company. It was with a bitter sense of humiliation that he cursed, again and again, the mischance of having encountered this man in the pawnbroker's shop.
Nobody about me drank. If any had drunk, and had they offered it to me, I surely would have drunk. As it was, when I had spare moments I spent them playing chess, or going with nice girls who were themselves students, or in riding a bicycle whenever I was fortunate enough to have it out of the pawnbroker's possession.
Pots, pans, old kukris, dusty-looking musical instruments, goods and chattels of all descriptions, such as one might imagine would form the contents of a Nepaulese pawnbroker's shop, if there is any such establishment here, were wedged together indiscriminately beneath the projecting roof of the pagoda, for of that Chinese form was this much venerated Hindoo temple.
I know an instance of a little boy finding a shawl in the street; and being in the habit of going to the pawnbroker's for his mother, instead of taking the shawl home to his parents, he actually pawned it and spent all the money, which might never have been known by his parents, had not the mother found the duplicate in his pocket.
"'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already, said I. "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson! said Vincent Spaulding. 'I shall be able to look after that for you. "'What would be the hours? I asked. "'Ten to two. "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr.
Oxford Street became to him as stony-hearted a step-mother as it was to De Quincey, and at melancholy last while his letters to Barbara became shorter and fewer he found an enforced way to the pawnbroker's, whither went all which his Uncle's capacious maw would receive; all, except the beloved violin which had so often sung to Barbara, so often sounded Love's sweet lullaby in the quiet of his own chamber.
"I have heard the story of Mr. Rich, Andy," he said. "Now let me have your defense." "I can give it very briefly. The watch was pawned by John Crandall. Of course it was given him by Mr. Rich." "How did you find that out?" "I went around to the pawnbroker's, and obtained a description of the boy who pawned the watch. It tallied exactly with John's appearance. That was not all.
"But now I think of it," resumed Dagobert's wife, "to go to the pawnbroker's will make you lose much time, my poor girl." "I can make up that in the night, Madame Frances; I could not sleep, knowing you in such trouble. Work will amuse me." "Yes, but the candles " "Never mind, I am a little beforehand with my work," said the poor girl, telling a falsehood.
Jacob then twisted a dirty silk handkerchief round my throat, and this did the business so completely, that I defied the pawnbroker and all his penetration. We drove as fast as we could to Swallow-street dismissed our hackney coach, and walked up to the pawnbroker's. Light in the shop! all alive! and business going on. The shop was so full of people, that we stood for some minutes unnoticed.
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