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For there had been a blitheness in the town that day, and every other man seemed to have been preeing the demijohn. Drucken Wabster and Brown the ragman came round the corner, staggering. "Young Gourlay's drunk!" blurted Wabster and reeled himself as he spoke. "Is he a wee fou?" said the Deacon eagerly. "Wee be damned," said Wabster; "he's as fou as the Baltic Sea!
One of the earlier dead, in the church-yard without, was a certain ragman, Richard Brandon, of whom the register says: "This R. Brandon is supposed to have cut off the head of Charles the First." From the parish of St. Botolph by Aldgate, on the road from Houndsditch to Whitechapel, came many of those who settled in Salem and the neighboring towns of Massachusetts.
The ragman, Senor Custodio, that was what he gave as his name, looked like a good-natured soul. From time to time he would bend over, pick up something from the street and throw it into the cart.
As he sat on the uncomfortable sofa and heard the jangling bells of the ragman die away into the distance, and the loud, long, mournful whoop of the chimney-sweep, his fancy was busy with the figures of a thousand things that might be of a certain nameless somebody, mistress of that poor, sombre house, but so lighting it up with grace and gay sweetness that the hard sofa became the most luxurious lounge, and the cheap table more gorgeous than ormolu; and of a certain other nameless somebody coming home at evening an opening door a rustle in the hall as of women's robes a singular sound as of meeting lips then a coming together arm in arm into the dingy furnished little parlor, but with such a bright fire blazing under the wooden mantle and then and then a pattering of little feet down the stairs Hem! hem! said Gabriel Bennet, clearing his throat, as if to arouse himself by making a noise.
I shall be the only common person in the drawing-room. So much the worse, or, so much the better. It will be my mark of distinction and superiority." Servigny was obstinate. "I tell you that it is not possible. Why, it would almost seem monstrous. You would have the effect of a ragman at a meeting of emperors. Let me do as I like.
'Coming back to these newspapers for a moment, Podgers. What is done with them? 'They are sold to the ragman, sir, once a week. 'Who takes them from the study? 'I do, sir. 'Do they appear to have been read very carefully? 'Well, no, sir; leastways, some of them seem never to have been opened, or else folded up very carefully again.
There was no talk of a salary then, but in time Martie came to ask for such money as she needed for Teddy's rompers, for gingham dresses for summer, for stationery and stamps and it was always generously accorded. "Get good things while you're about it," Mrs. Curley would say. "You buy for the ragman when you buy trash.
Washington was there." This liking made dogs an interest to him, and he took much pains to improve the breed of his hounds. Mopsey, Pilot, Tartar, Jupiter, Trueman, Tipler, Truelove, Juno, Dutchess, Ragman, Countess, Lady, Searcher, Rover, Sweetlips, Vulcan, Singer, Music, Tiyal, and Forrester are some of the names he gave them.
It went perforce to the ragman, if he would condescend to accept it. There was a certain sad, plum-colored, shad-bellied coat that flashes athwart my memory in hideous recollection, which wrapped itself portentiously about my slim figure, to the great delectation of my young friends and companions, and to my corresponding misery. I can recall their satirical criticisms vividly even now.
'Then I'll take the liberty to postpone talking about my vote. Look here, Mr. Commander; if the upper classes want anything of me and come to me for it, I'll know what sort of an example they're setting; now that's me. 'You pay attention to a stupid Tory squib? 'Where there's smoke there's fire, sir. Beauchamp glanced at his note-book for the name of this man, who was a ragman and dustman.
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