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A long while elapsed, however, before he espied Hsueeh P'an in the distance, hurrying along astride of a high steed, with gaping mouth, staring eyes, and his head, banging from side to side like a pedlar's drum.
In other respects the professional beggars of the nineteenth century are not a whit better than their predecessors of the sixteenth; and your gipsies and travelling potters, who, gipsy-like, pitch their tents upon the common, or by the wayside, retain with as much fidelity the manners and morals of the old vagabonds as they do the cant, or pedlar's French, which this class of people are said to have invented in the age whereof we are now speaking.
The pedlar's back had been turned towards her hitherto, but when she came near him she recognised an old acquaintance of the Mercato, Bratti Ferravecchi, and, accustomed to feel that she was to avoid old acquaintances, she turned away again and passed to the other side of the street.
How is your sisther, Miss Pugshey, an' all the family, sir? all well, I hope, sir?" "All well," replied M'Carthy, laughing as loud as any of the rest, every one of whom actually in convulsions for they knew, with the exception of Julia, who was deceived at first by the pedlar's apparent gravity, that he was only bantering her lover.
It fell on to the door that led into the pedlar's chamber, and showed her something dark and slimy that was flowing slowly slowly from under it into her room. She did not cry out or fall senseless. She bent down and put her hand into it, and saw that it was blood her poor old friend's life-blood for she knew now beyond all doubt that he had been murdered for the sake of his supposed wealth.
I say! why are you beating the pedlar's donkey like that? 'The pedlar should keep him from eating my cabbages, said Nur Mahomed; 'if he comes this evening here again I'll cut off his tail for him! Whereupon he went off indoors, whistling cheerfully.
His spirits fell when he entered the room. He put his pedlar's pack on the floor and sat down on the narrow bed, suddenly conscious of an enormous fatigue. His feet burned, his legs ached, his back was raw where the heavy pack had rested. He thought: "What am I doing here? I have nothing but the few hundred pounds Waram gave me. I'm alone. Dead and alive."
Sudall was immediately in attendance upon the sufferer, and bled him copiously, after which the poor man seemed much easier; and Richard Assheton, taking the chirurgeon aside, asked his opinion of the case, and was told by Sudall that he did not think the pedlar's life in danger, but he doubted whether he would ever recover the use of his limbs.
Neither was my companion at more ease in his mind, but on the contrary, so possessed with the dreadful idea of Rifle, that he solicited me strongly to follow our countryman's example, and so elude the fatal resentment of that terrible adventurer, who would certainly wreak his vengeance on us as accomplices of the pedlar's elopement.
Jasper, who had risen from his knees while speaking, here stamped heavily on the floor, as if with anger at the heart-stricken aspect of his silenced father; and continued with a voice that seemed struggling to regain its old imperious, rollicking, burly swell. "What is done cannot be undone. Fling it aside, sir look to the future; you with your pedlar's pack, I with my empty pockets!
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