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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Tricked by this double-faced devil Louison-Delavigne, thrown out of my future rank, held for the five thousand pounds already advanced, and, with eleven thousand embargoed in that Paris pawnbroker shop of a Credit Lyonnais, I've but one course left to me now." He took counsel of the brandy bottle, and then, ignoring all else, he sent off a careful letter to Joseph Smith.
This was soothing, and the animal allowed customers of this type to scratch it gently behind the ear. The cat was for the time the only occupant of the shop. The assistant was out, and the pawnbroker sat in the small room beyond, with the door half open, reading a newspaper.
I have a diamond ring of considerable value, which I should like to have you carry, either to a jeweller or a pawnbroker, and secure what advance you can upon it." "And I believed she had plenty of money," thought Frank, wondering. "I will do the best I can for you, madam," said our hero. Mrs.
It seems to be a pawnbroker in the midst of his pledges; old earthen jugs, flasks, a brass kettle, old books, and a huge pile of worn-out and broken rubbish, which he is examining.
I want to raise twenty dollars, and if I can't get that, I'll keep the ring." The pawnbroker saw that he had made a mistake. Paul was not as much in need of money as the majority of his customers. He would rather pay twenty dollars than lose the bargain, though it went against the grain to pay so much money.
It was I who told him of the chamber on the fourth story, knowing he would be a good neighbor for you." "But," said Rudolph, "who placed your daughter with the notary?" "When my wife was taken sick, I had said to Madame Burette, the pawnbroker, who lives in this house, that Louise wished to go to service to aid us.
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!
'But his avarice does not authorize me to paint him to the life for a stranger's benefit. "'Speak out, sir. Your frankness cannot injure Gobseck or yourself. I do not expect to find an angel in a pawnbroker. "'Daddy Gobseck, I began, 'is intimately convinced of the truth of the principle which he takes for a rule of life.
You made this mess, and if you lift a hand to my dog you'll miss seeing the end of the mess you started, you dirty pawnbroker, you." "Perfectly right, perfectly right," the Ancient Mariner nodded approbation. "Do you think, steward, you could get a width of canvas, or a blanket, or something soft and broad with which to replace this rope?
"Captain Booth's lady, the captain who is now below," said the other. "How?" cries the doctor with great impetuosity. "Have patience," said the man, "and you shall hear all. I expressed some surprize to the pawnbroker, and asked the lady's name. He answered, that he knew not her name; but that she was some undone wretch, who had the day before left all her cloathes with him in pawn.
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