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Updated: May 19, 2025
The man is unhurt, while the clothes are only fit for the rag-shop or to be given to me." "And, for choice, you would sooner have a corpse to deal with, so that the clothes were untorn?" Stefan shrugged his shoulders. "I could spare most of my acquaintances to be made corpses of, for acquaintances are easier come by than good clothes. It was a street attack, Captain, I suppose?"
A child is left anywhere without the possibility of crawling away, or is accidentally knocked off a shelf, or tumbled out of bed, or is hung up to a hook now and then, and left dangling like a doll at an English rag-shop, without the least inconvenience to anybody.
She was untidy in her dress, it is true, but she had not quite that castaway and gone-to-sleep-in-a-dust-bin appearance that we, an earnest student of the drama, felt she ought to present, and we questioned her one day on the subject. "How is it, Sophronia," we said, "that you distantly resemble a human being instead of giving one the idea of an animated rag-shop?
'Bah! you peacock, cried this wicked old man, banging his wooden leg against the table, 'you eye-glass idiot you brainless puppy I'm wrong, am I? we'll see about that, you rag-shop. This last in allusion to Barty's picturesque garb. 'I've found out all I want from you, and I'll track her down, and put her in gaol, and hang her hang her till she's as dead as a door nail.
The three little boys were all "mud-larks," that is, prowled along the river shore, picking up any odds and ends that could be sold to the rag-shop or for firewood, and their backs were scored with the strap which the father carried in his pocket and took out for his evening's occupation when he came.
He'd a tattered petticoat about his legs, a seaman's blouse for his body, and a lady's shawl above that upon his shoulders his legs were bare as a barked tree, and what boots he had should have been in the rag-shop.
"When your old neck-tie was torn, did you know that one end of it went to the rag-shop, and the other fell into my hands?" I said these bold words to him suddenly, and, as it seemed, without my own will taking any part in them. He started, stared, changed color. He was too much amazed by my sudden speaking to find an answer for me.
I had scarcely had time to enjoy the coach and to think how like a straw-yard it was, and yet how like a rag-shop, and to wonder why the horses' nose-bags were kept inside, when I observed the coachman beginning to get down, as if we were going to stop presently. And stop we presently did, in a gloomy street, at certain offices with an open door, whereon was painted MR. JAGGERS. "How much?"
Their poverty is not exaggerated; it is on the extreme verge of human misery; their cottages would scarce serve for pig-styes, even in Scotland, and their rags seem the very refuse of a rag-shop, and are disposed on their bodies with such ingenious variety of wretchedness that you would think nothing but some sort of perverted taste could have assembled so many shreds together.
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