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Updated: July 10, 2025
He had said yesterday by mistake for to-morrow. "To-morrow. To-morrow he will be ready the scarf." "What time to-morrow shall I come?" asked Rollo. "Yes, sir," said the shopman, bowing again, and smiling in a very complacent manner. "Yes, sir, to-morrow." "But what time to-morrow?" repeated Rollo, speaking very distinctly, and emphasizing very strongly the word time. "What time?"
I can never get accustomed to his calling me Ambrosine it always jars, as if one suddenly heard a shopman taking this liberty. It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences. He has not a mind that makes it possible to have any conversation with him.
It disposed for the time of the question, but what was next apparent was that it had seen them no further. The shopman, who had not stirred, stood there in his patience which, his mute intensity helping, had almost the effect of an ironic comment. The Prince moved to the glass door and, his back to the others, as with nothing more to contribute, looked though not less patiently into the street.
She took advantage of a moment when her husband's back was turned to inquire casually in a shop if anything had been heard of the gentleman who was sucked down in the eddy while bathing. The shopman said, 'Yes, his body has been washed ashore, and had just handed Baptista a newspaper on which she discerned the heading, 'A Schoolmaster drowned while bathing, when her husband turned to join her.
There was a little tobacco-shop at the corner of the street, where Montgomery got his bird's-eye and also his local information, for the shopman was a garrulous soul, who knew everything about the affairs of the district. The assistant strolled down there after tea and asked, in a casual way, whether the tobacconist had ever heard of the Master of Croxley. "Heard of him!
I had got on a pair once which I thought would do, and the shopman said for the third or fourth time: "But really, sir, these boots are much too large for you." I turned to him and said rather sternly, "Now, you made that remark before."
"A kind of grey horror came upon me. I don't know if I can describe it. We went through vast vistas of chairs, of hall-tables, of machine-made pictures, of curtains, huge wildernesses of carpets, and ever this cold, unsympathetic shopman led us on, and ever and again made us buy this or that.
'Pack of cowards! said Uncle Reuben, looking first at the door, however; 'much chance I see of getting redress from the valour of this Exmoor! And you, Master Snowe, the very man whom I looked to to raise the country, and take the lead as churchwarden why, my youngest shopman would match his ell against you.
Cheaper than the cheapest, better, finer, more durable, than the best, nothing at all approaching his assortment of linendrapery had, as he swore, and his head shopman, Mr.
Men and women flitted like shadows between him and Helen, but she saw plainly enough. Zebedee was interested: he nodded twice, looked at the girl and laughed, while she walked sideways in her eagerness. She was young and pretty: no one, Helen thought, had ever married her. The noise of the street rushed on her again, and she heard the shopman say, "That's a case, I think.
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