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"But what's become of Maggs's?" "Maggs's left a week ago come Tuesday. I know, because they used to buy their milk of me. They were the first a'most, and the last was the Menagerie and Gavel's Roundabouts. They packed up last night. It must be a wearin' life," commented the shopwoman. "But for my part I like the shows, and so I tell Damper that's my 'usband.
"I said all that, sir; but this is not the gentleman." "Could you swear to it?" said Lucian, more chagrined than he liked to show to the victorious Ferruci. "If it is necessary, I could, sir," said the shopwoman, with the greatest confidence. And after so direct a reply, and such certain evidence, Denzil had nothing to do but retire from an awkward position as gracefully as he could.
Then came a revival of her anxieties for the guards, and while Mary was simply desirous of the fun of being a shopwoman, and was made happy by Meta Rivers asking her help, Blanche was in despair, till she had sidled up to their neighbourhood, and her piteous looks had caused good-natured Mrs. Hoxton to invite her to assist, when she placed herself close to the precious object.
It was said, however, that this particular man was rather a remarkable specimen of his kind didn't hunt didn't preserve had trained as an artist, and even exhibited. The shopwoman in B from whom Miss Cookson derived her information about the Farrells, had described Sir William as 'queer' said everybody knew he was 'queer. Nobody could get him to do any county work.
"Are either of you young ladies prepared to buy this blue blouse?" "Oh, yes, indeed!" cried Bobby, who had taken a fancy to the blouse. "I've got money enough. And it was nice of Miss Bellethorne to finish it for me before she went. I wish I might thank her personally." "I do not expect to see Ida again," the shopwoman repeated in her most severe manner, wrapping up the over-blouse.
I explained my situation to the shopwoman, who seemed to take an interest in me, and began speaking to her husband in Flemish or Walloon, and finally informed me that if it were only for a few days she and her husband would sleep in the shop and give up their room to me. But she said that she had absolutely no room whatever for my man. "I haven't got one." "All the better.
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 am sorry to give you the trouble of taking down so many things when I only want such a short length of each, said Mrs. Vane civilly to the shopman or shopwoman, I think it was.
The courier came presently and reported the price. I said to myself, "It is a hundred francs too much," and so dismissed the matter from my mind. But in the afternoon I was passing that place with Harris, and the picture attracted me again. We stepped in, to see how much higher broken German would raise the price. The shopwoman named a figure just a hundred francs lower than the courier had named.
Once when they made a little purchase at a shop the shopwoman looked astonished at the freedom with which they carried themselves, and after that they felt inclined to go into every shop in the street and behave absurdly everywhere. In the course of two hours they had accomplished all the innocent follies possible to the intoxication of youth, and were perfectly happy.
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