pishness

Updated: May 22, 2025

I haf many rich Americans, principals and customers, he says, 'and often I could do pishness for you when they come over." "By which he meant he might sell them diamonds?" Hewitt queried. "Just so, Mr. Hewitt reg'lar pishness. And after that two or three little parcels of tiamonts he bought for American customers, he says. But he says he can do bigger pishness soon.

Arthur Morrison - The Red Triangle: Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator