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That is to say, Nodier read. He read aloud, and translated as he read. At intervals, while he rested, I took the book bought from the ragpicker of Soissons, and read passages from the Romancero. Like Nodier, I translated as I read. We compared the English with the Castilian book; we confronted the dramatic with the epic.
"A great many rag-dealers and dustmen pass this way," said Vidal, "on the road to La Elipa. Let's offer this to the first one that comes along." "For three duros," corrected El Bizco. "Why, of course." They waited a while and soon a ragpicker hove into view, bearing an empty sack and headed for Madrid. Vidal called him over and offered to sell their bundle. "What'll you give us for these things?"
I plot and I plan all the day I can not buy a newspaper without hesitating and debating I am like a ragpicker going about the streets! Sometimes the thing goads me so that I think I must go mad when I think of the time that I lose, of the power, of the courage! I walk miles when I am exhausted, to save a car-fare! I wear ragged collars and chafe my neck!
She flew to him and flung her arms around his neck. "Oh, grandpapa, what a lovely surprise!" she cried, dancing around her dear Palikare. "You don't owe it to me," said her grandfather. "Fabry bought it from that ragpicker to whom you sold it. The office staff offer it as a gift to their old comrade." "Oh, hasn't Monsieur Fabry got a good, kind heart!" cried Perrine.
"Ah, this is news! So you think it is possible to evoke the dead in some more tangible form than that of an instructive ghost? You think it possible for a dead girl or, as to that matter, for a dead boy, or a defunct archbishop, or a deceased ragpicker, to be fetched back to live again in the warm flesh?" "All things are possible, Manuel, at a price."
Ragingly she took off her dress, a very simple affair of white foulard, of so thin and supple a texture that it clung about her like a long shift. But she put it on again directly, for she could not find another to her taste, and with tears in her eyes declared that she was dressed like a ragpicker. Daguenet and Georges had to patch up the rent with pins, while Zoe once more arranged her hair.
You couldn't possibly make the team this year, of course, but we well, we thought you might like a bit of the social end of the squad. We thought you might like to come around to our headquarters and see us drill and hear our talk of the game. Would it interest you any?" "Would it?" glowed Dick. "Why, as much as it would please a ragpicker to be carried off to a palace to live!"
They're dyed in the wool hypocrites joined to their idols let 'em alone. And as to that husband of yours " "Stop! Stop! I can't stand any more! Pleathe go pleathe " "What're you going to do about that Tertium Quid you've annexed?" Aunt Dressie inquired, casually. "I don't know," Warble uncertained. "He has wonderful ambitions and aspirations. He wants to be a ragpicker a real one."
They might easily take them for loose women if they heard them laughing at that hour of the night. Satin, with a little shudder, had squeezed herself up against Nana. Nevertheless, the pair stayed where they were and were soon interested in the approach of a lantern, the light of which danced over the puddles in the road. It was an old ragpicker woman who was busy raking in the gutters.
Next morning, at gray dawn, the party was about to disperse; and at the moment a ragpicker, with a gray beard, was wandering up and down before the restaurant, raking with his hook in the refuse that awaited the public sweepers. In closing his purse, with an unsteady hand, Camors let fall a shining louis d'or, which rolled into the mud on the sidewalk. The ragpicker looked up with a timid smile.
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