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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.
"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.
She thinks and talks of nothing but her clothes for ever so long before, and especially of her "corsets," which she then puts on for the first time. Her mother takes her to the shop to try them on, and is at much pains to make her waist as slender as possible. "Can't you pull them a little tighter?" she will say to the shopwoman.
Day after day I lay on my counter unnoticed, except by the shopwoman who covered us up at night, and re-arranged us in the morning; and even this she did with such an indifferent air, that I could not flatter myself I was of the smallest use to her.
"A man who will give twenty shillings for a pair of laced gloves to a pretty shopwoman at the New Exchange, will grudge a crown for the maintenance of God's people that are in distress; and one who is not hardy enough to walk half a mile to church, will stand for a whole afternoon in the pit of a theatre, to see painted women-actors defile a stage that was evil enough in the late King's time, but which has in these latter days sunk to a depth of infamy that it befits not me to speak of in this holy place.
"Lately purchased by us," said the shopwoman, seeing me look at the toy, "from a lady who has no further use for it." I think I have seldom been more indignant with Mary. You will certainly have further use for this. I am, etc., the Man Who Dropped the Letter."
He lifted himself on his hind legs, and laid his missive on the counter. The shopwoman you know her, Mrs. Traill unfolded the paper and read the order. 'Clever dog that, sir, said she. 'To fetch and carry? said I, indifferently. 'More than that, sir; you shall see. The order is for two penn'orth of snuff. The dog knows he is to take back fourpence.
"And I didn't say anything because I thought you would think I wanted a reward for returning it." "So, you see, I couldn't speak of it. But now, of course, we'll get it away from Mrs. Staples. I think she's horrid mean!" Betty expressed her opinion of the shopwoman vigorously, but she put her arms around the English girl at the same time and kissed her warmly. "You're a dear!" repeated Ida.
She took the child's bonnet off and flung it under the cab, then grasped Tottie's hand and led her into a shop. "A hat," demanded the lady of the shopwoman. "What kind of hat, ma'am?" "Any kind," replied Miss Stivergill, "suitable for this child only see that it's not a doll's hat. Let it fit her."
Bawtrey, which Jessie had pointed out to him, on pretence of buying a gaudy neckerchief; and soon, thanks to his habitual civility, made familiar acquaintance with the shopwoman. She was a little sickly old lady, her head shaking, as with palsy, somewhat deaf, but still shrewd and sharp, rendered mechanically so by long habits of shrewdness and sharpness.
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