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Updated: June 4, 2025
Though I've had thoughts like it, 'tis true, about high women Lord forgive me for't. 'And that figure of fashion standing there is a widow woman, so I hear? 'Lady not a penny less than lady. Ay, a thing of twenty-one or thereabouts. 'A widow lady and twenty-one. 'Tis a backward age for a body who's so forward in her state of life. 'Well, be that as 'twill, here's my showings for her age.
But let the purchaser be cautious when led into out-of-the-way places to see newly found originals, and be slow to give heed to stories of churches being permitted to sell this or that work of art because they have a façade to repair or an altar to decorate, and particularly if there be said anything of an inheritance to divide, or a sad tale of family distress requiring the sacrifice of long-cherished treasures, backed up by a well-gotten-up pantomime of unlockings and lockings, passages through mysterious corridors and vast halls, cautious showings amid a crowd of family-retainers or a retinue of monks.
Building and trying out submarine torpedo boats is the kind of work to make many a man's hair turn prematurely white. As success depends solely upon actual showings made, the anxiety of any builder during a series of competitive tests in which several makes of boat are entered can be easily understood. Messrs. Farnum and Pollard were plainly on tenterhooks that day. They might well be.
If a place interests you, look it over well but don't insist on so many showings that you wear out the patience of its occupants. Never, never belittle any property in the hearing of its owner. There are all too many people, cocksure but ignorant of human nature, who believe this helps to get a bargain. It works just the opposite.
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