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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.
"To the garden between dawn and sunrise, Jurgen." "Surely, now, but that is a fine name for a garden! and it is a place I would take joy to be seeing." "Up upon my back, Jurgen, and I will take you thither," says the Centaur, and heaved to his feet. Then said the Centaur, when the pawnbroker hesitated: "Because, as you must understand, there is no other way.
It had cost fifteen dollars, and the pawnbroker let me have two dollars on it. And oh, yes a water-front comrade of earlier years drifted along one day with a dress suit wrapped in newspapers. He could give no adequate explanation of how he had come to possess it, nor did I press for an explanation. I wanted the suit myself. No; not to wear.
Myrtle looked at Annie as if she were now quite sure that the poor pretty young lady was not quite right in her head. She did not speak at all, but waited for Annie to continue. "You're a female pawnbroker, are you not?" said Annie. "A female what, my dear?" said Mrs. Myrtle, her face growing crimson. This was really the last straw. "I don't understand you, miss," she said in a stiff tone.
"And suppose he did, isn't he a-rollin' in gold?" "I'm poor," said Eliakim; "almost as poor as you, because I'm too liberal to my customers." "Hear till him!" said Mrs. McCarty. "He says he's liberal and only offers fifty cints for these illigant breeches." "Will you take them or leave them?" demanded the pawnbroker, impatiently.
It enraged him; but policy counselled a quiet behaviour in this place, and no quarrelling with his pawnbroker. Besides, his whole nature cried out for dinner. He dined and had his wine; as good, he ventured to assert, as any man could get for the money; for he knew the hotels with the venerable cellars.
"My dear Tom!" and William Philander looked aghast. "You know well enough I never took that suit to a pawnbroker." "Well, maybe it was some other suit. Possibly the black one with the blue stripes, or maybe it was the blue one with the black stripes. Really, my dearest Philander, it is immaterial to me what suit it was." And Tom looked coldly indifferent as he buttered another slice of bread.
The third antiquity was the hostess, a buxom lady, much given to gay attire and reminiscences of past glory, 'Before me 'usband went into public life. The strangers innocently supposed the departed Mr. K. to have been an M.P. at least, and were rather taken aback on learning that he had been a pawnbroker.
Eagerly, and with trembling hands, did Brandon toss over the motley contents of the mahogany reservoirs which the pawnbroker now submitted to his scrutiny. Nothing on earth is so melancholy a prospect as a pawnbroker's drawer!
I traded him a lot of rubbish which, being unpawnable, was useless to me. He peddled the rubbish for several dollars, while I pledged the dress-suit with my pawnbroker for five dollars. And for all I know the pawnbroker still has the suit. I had never intended to redeem it. But I couldn't get any work. Yet I was a bargain in the labour market.
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