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The Captain took it in his immense hand, and thrust it into his coat pocket behind, but one thrust down to the bottom would not get it in, so he thrust again and again, until it was all coiled away like a cable in a tier. "That's a liberal girl," whispered Jack; "she gives by wholesale what it will take some time to retail.
"Many of 'Poulter's' clients, who are behindhand with their cheques for family tuition, have made payment with the commodities which they happen to retail," remarked Poulter. "Assuming that you were willing, you might care to take whole or part payment in some of these." Mavis was sorry, but money was a necessity to her. "I quite understand," said Poulter sympathetically.
What a singular mode of life for a man of education and refinement, to spend his days in hard and earnest bodily toil, and then to convey the products of his labor, in a wheelbarrow, to the public market, and there retail them out, a peck of peas or beans, a bunch of turnips, a squash, a dozen ears of green corn!
Description of the Oasis of Ghat; Houses, Architecture, Gardens, and Surrounding Country. Visit from the Heir-Apparent, Khanouhen. Genial softness of the Weather. Specimen of Retail Trade. Case of administering Justice by the Sultan. Early habit of Touarghee begging. The Bou-Habeeba, or Saharan Singing Sparrows. Alarm of Female Hucksters at The Christian. 27th. A FINE morning.
But English language and Bullish money seem to be almost universally understood, and probably the Board of Trade returns would show that English commerce predominates, and that it is only the retail trade in which the foreign element looms so conspicuously to the fore.
Wholesale houses wanted impossible discounts, and retail chemists could not be inveigled into placing any but the most insignificant orders. He gave dismaying details, terribly anxious all the while lest his chief should attribute to his incompetence the growing unpopularity of the Cure. But to his amazement Sypher listened smilingly to his story of disaster, and ordered a bottle of champagne.
He bought meat, and a loaf of bread, candles, chips, and from a little retail yard he purchased a couple of hundredweights of coal. Some money still remained all destined for them, but he did not yet know how best to spend it. Food, light, and warmth, he had instantly seen were necessary; for luxuries he would wait. Wilson's eyes filled with tears when he saw Barton enter with his purchases.
Then, to reach the consumption of the poorer tax-payers, the licences of retail dealers were taxed according to the population of the neighborhoods in which they lived.
See that your wife's a dancer, whoever she may be, Sim; let her dance and sing and play the harpsichord or the clarsach they are charms that will last longer than her good looks, and will not weary you so soon as that intellect that's so much in fashion nowadays, when every woman listens to every clever thing you say, that she may say something cleverer, or perhaps retail it later as her own."
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