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Updated: June 21, 2025
Sidonie also went out a great deal. It often happened, toward night, that Georges's carriage, driving through the gateway, would compel Madame Risler to step hastily aside as she was returning in a gorgeous costume from a triumphal promenade. The boulevard, the shop-windows, the purchases, made after long deliberation as if to enjoy to the full the pleasure of purchasing, detained her very late.
The streets, the crowds, the shop-windows, the shimmering stream of carriages that rolled up and down the avenue, the elevated railways which had just been constructed, all were a marvel to him. "Where do these people get their wealth?" he asked. "Some of them get it from rural gentlemen who visit the town," said Gordon, laughing. The old fellow smiled.
Indeed it forms a great contrast to the town of Berlin in every thing; the streets are narrow, short, and winding. The post-office and the theatres are the most remarkable buildings. The luxury displayed in the shop-windows is very great. Many a mirror and many a plate-glass window reminded me of Hamburgh's splendour, which surpasses that of Berlin considerably.
For she had brought with her the contents of her money-box, which amounted to fivepence-halfpenny, and intended to lay out this large sum in presents for everyone at home. It was an anxious as well as a difficult matter to do this to the best advantage, and she spent much time in gazing into shop-windows, her brow puckered with care and her purse clutched tightly in her hand.
Well, then home a back way "Home a back way!" The words have meaning; might have been spoken by the old man with whiskers no, no, he didn't really speak; but everything has meaning placards leaning against doorways names above shop-windows red fruit in baskets women's heads in the hairdresser's all say "Minnie Marsh!" But here's a jerk. "Eggs are cheaper!" That's what always happens!
He had the dandy's tastes for superb neckties, velvet jackets, and he got the ties instead of dining; he panted for the jacket, knew all the shop-windows it was in, but for years denied himself, with a moan, so that he might buy pretty things for Elspeth. When eventually he got it, Pym's friends ridiculed him. When he saw how ill his face matched it he ridiculed himself.
Two endless ranks of shop-windows, facing one another across the tide, flaunted treasures that kings might pardonably have coveted and would. Before one corner window, Lanyard paused instinctively. The shop was that of a famous jeweller. Separated from him by only the thickness of plate-glass was the wealth of princes.
He was tired of her society the simple formula which sufficiently explains so many domestic troubles. He would have lunch somewhere in town; then see whether he felt disposed to go home or not. In the afternoon he loitered about the Strand, looking at portraits in shop-windows and at the theatre-doors. Home was more, instead of less, repugnant to him.
I know also that much is waiting for me outside that is very delightful, from what St. Francis of Assisi calls 'my brother the wind, and my sister the rain, lovely things both of them, down to the shop-windows and sunsets of great cities. If I made a list of all that still remains to me, I don't know where I should stop: for, indeed, God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.
A little color creeps with it even into rabbinical Hester Street, and shows in the shop-windows and in the children's faces.
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