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Updated: May 7, 2025
Paying his meditated visit there one evening at dusk, he had found that singular rag-merchant just returned from one of his rounds, emptying out his basketful of broken glass and old iron amongst his handsome show of miscellaneous second-hand goods.
Fabrice, notwithstanding some extravagances with the fair sex, became a millionaire; and the greatest glory of his life was that he lived to eclipse his old master, the rag-merchant." The same writer also gives a graphic description of one class of restaurants in Paris the pot-luck shops: "Pot-luck, or the fortune de pot, is on the whole the most curious feeding spectacle in Europe.
"Ay," cried the dame, laughing, "I fancies you war not pleased with the bargain. I thought you war too old a ragmerchant to be so free with the blunt; howsomever, I supposes it war the tinsel petticoat as took you in!" "As it has mony a viser man than the like of I," rejoined Dummie, who to his various secret professions added the ostensible one of a rag-merchant and dealer in broken glass.
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