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The milkman, the walk-sweeper, and the rag-picker, were the only creatures moving in Osgood's neighborhood. The time was propitious for meditation and resolve, but Osgood's head was not ready. The still Champagne that he had drank the night before buzzed in his brain.
My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental for the externals no eye for the hod of the rag-picker or the fine linen of the next man. Next man that's it. I have met so many men, he pursued, with momentary sadness 'met them too with a certain certain impact, let us say; like this fellow, for instance and in each case all I could see was merely the human being.
A few minutes after the Professor left the table, the waiter entered, with uplifted hands and eyes, exclaiming, "Well, I declare, the memory man has forgotten his umbrella!" Parisian rag-picker. His only relation was a niece, who lived as servant with a greengrocer. This girl always assisted her uncle as far as her slender means would permit.
You ought to have been a preacher." "He'd far better be the Devil's advocate!" said the old rag-picker. "For there's not much Christianity in what he says!"
Meanwhile, Maria was knocking at Zerkow's miserable hovel. "Who is it? Who is it?" cried the rag-picker from within, in his hoarse voice, that was half whisper, starting nervously, and sweeping a handful of silver into his drawer. "It's me, Maria Macapa;" then in a lower voice, and as if speaking to herself, "had a flying squirrel an' let him go."
The first to appear was a 'chiffonnier, who threw his sack and pick down by the basin, bathed his face, and drank from his hand. It seemed to me almost like an act of worship, and I would have embraced that rag-picker as a brother.
The first to appear was a 'chiffonnier, who threw his sack and pick down by the basin, bathed his face, and drank from his hand. It seemed to me almost like an act of worship, and I would have embraced that rag-picker as a brother.
Even a lazy man, who does nothing but make debts, has time to marry a widow who pays them; a priest finds time to become a bishop 'in partibus. A sober, intelligent young fellow, who begins with a small capital as a money-changer, soon buys a share in a broker's business; and, to go even lower, a petty clerk becomes a notary, a rag-picker lays by two or three thousand francs a year, and the poorest workmen often become manufacturers; whereas, in the rotatory movement of this present civilization, which mistakes perpetual division and redivision for progress, an unhappy civil service clerk, like Chazelle for instance, is forced to dine for twenty-two sous a meal, struggles with his tailor and bootmaker, gets into debt, and is an absolute nothing; worse than that, he becomes an idiot!
And now he must be expected, the Doctor quite forgot that nobody had asked him to do it, he must be expected to come fishing them out of their hole, like a rag-picker at a trash barrel. "Bringing me into this wretched alley!" he silently thought. His foot slipped on a mossy brick.
"Yes." "Humanitarian, artistic, or sociological?" "Oh, nothing long and clever like that." "You grow more interesting. Having designs upon us, you doubtless wish my advice." "No," she answered softly: "I've done it already." "Rash and precipitate adventuress! What have you done already?" "Started my designs. I've rented the basement of Number 26." "Are you a rag-picker in disguise?"
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