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"You may have the ear-rings," said she, "as this gentleman has been kind enough to give you such a present, and you should give him a kiss by way of thanks." "The ear-rings," said the shopwoman, "will be only three louis." Hereupon the affair took a comic turn; the old woman got into a rage and said, "How can you be such a cheat? You told me they were only two louis." "Nay, madam, I asked three."
I nursed them both Phil and his mother; and when she was gone I came on to the city, thinking I could do better here, but I have found it hard, very hard, with no friends. Still, I have pretty steady work now as shopwoman, though I cannot do all that I would like to do for Phil." Miss Schuyler was crying. "Lisa, you good woman, how glad I am I have found you!
Their powers of motion made a decided difference between them and the other surrounding objects, and naturally my attention was early turned towards the actions of the shopwoman on whose stall I lived. She covered me and my companions with a large cloth every night, and restored the daylight to us in the morning. We were all perfectly helpless without her, and absolutely under her control.
"Annette," said he, "I come requesting to converse with you in private." "If you wish it I would rather not," she answered. Tinman raised his head, as often at Helmstone when some offending shopwoman was to hear her doom. He bent to her. "I see. Before your father, then!" "It isn't an agreeable bit of business, to me," Van Diemen grumbled, frowning and shrugging.
"I can let you have a cheaper pair and almost as fine," said the shopwoman, but the young lady said she did not; care about it, and was getting ready to go, making a profound reverence to my princess Baret. She, no doubt flattered by this sign of respect went up to her, called her little queen, told her she was as fair as a May morning, and asked the old woman her name,
In her turn she also examined the cloak, and departed to refresh her memory by looking at some account book. When she returned it was to intimate that the cloak had been bought by a man. "A man!" repeated Lucian, much astonished. "What was he like?" "A dark man," replied the brisk shopwoman, "dark hair, dark eyes, and a dark moustache. I remember him well, because he was a foreigner."
'May I buy her? said the little girl. 'Can you afford it? asked the lady in return. 'Remember your intentions for your brother. 'Perhaps I have money enough for both, answered the child. 'How much does she cost? 'Seven shillings, said the shopwoman, taking the doll from her place, and displaying her pretty face and hands to the utmost advantage.
I was looking in at a window at a very pretty string of beads, suitable for a child. I was only admiring them; I had no use for them; I hardly ever wear beads. The shopwoman came out and offered them to me for thirty-five francs. I said it was cheap, but I did not need them. "Ah, but monsieur, they are so beautiful!"
I made up my mind to get out the back way, if there was a back way, and I asked the shopwoman if I could step out there and look for the escaped slave, who was believed to be in hiding back there somewhere, and said I was an officer in disguise, and my pard was yonder at the door with one of the murderers in charge, and would she be good enough to step there and tell him he needn't wait, but had better go at once to the further end of the back alley and be ready to head him off when I rousted him out.
"These Hungarians believe in all sorts of rubbish; you remember the shopwoman at Pressburg warning us that no one ever landed here because it belonged to some sort of beings outside man's world! I suppose they believe in fairies and elementals, possibly demons, too.
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