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There were quantities of spirits, consigned mainly to Quartermasters, but evidently the property of certain Shylocks, who watched the barrels greedily. An embalmer was also on board, with his ghostly implements. He was a sallow man, shabbily attired, and appeared to look at all the passengers as so many subjects for the development of his art.
Roberta was so quiet and self-contained and so seldom expressed a wish or a preference that it was worth while taking a little trouble to please her. "Even if there isn't much sense in what she wants," thought Betty, as she tramped up Main Street. The Main Street Shylocks all lived in the same house and not one of them was in.
I am selfish, I'll admit," he declared, as Virginia looked at him incredulously, "and I want dollar for dollar always sometimes more. My people are popularly known as Shylocks. But you note that my rate of usury is small, the time long, and that I want these settlers to stay.
Cavaliers in silks and satins, with plumed hats and jewelled swords; Crusaders in glittering mail and silver armour. Alsace peasant girls mingled with Carmelite monks and Sicilian nuns. Shakespeare's characters were legion Portias, Cymbelines, Katherines and Shylocks, all laughed and jested together, their identity concealed beneath their black velvet masks.
Brook was watching her, he understood and was annoyed, for he loved his mother in his own way. "At all events you won't be able to ruin yourself in pictures here," said Mrs. Bowring. "No but how about the porters?" suggested Sir Adam. "My dear Adam," said Lady Johnstone, "unless they are all Shylocks here, they won't exact a ducat for every pound of flesh.
Her shooting Shylocks want the last pound of flesh from wild life, and I think they will get it very soon. Ohio is in the area of barren states. The seed stock has been too thoroughly destroyed to be recuperated. Great is Ohio in game conservation!
I recognised one of them as a former nurse who had left the hospital in disgrace, but happily she didn't see me, for the little hard lump at my heart was turning as bitter as gall at that moment, so I made some philosophical observations to myself and passed on. "Oh, my gracious, these London landladies! They must be female Shylocks, for the pound of flesh is the badge of all their tribe.
The courtroom where justice is administered was large, clean, airy the bench carpeted and adorned with a large, green, stuffed chair, in which I sat down, and, in imagination, summoned up advocates, jurors, prisoners, and people, and wondered how I should feel pronouncing sentence of death on a fellow-being, or, like Portia, wisely checkmating the Shylocks of our times.
"If it is some merchants' squabble, you can save your breath, for I am sick of the Shylocks." I said, very politely, that I was a stranger not half a year arrived in the country, but that I had been using my eyes, and wished to submit my views to his consideration. "Go to the Council," he rasped; "go to that silken fool, His Majesty's Attorney.
"I thought he wasn't coming until to-morrow," said Teddie Wilson, who followed every move of the play committee with mournful interest. "He wasn't," explained Barbara Gordon, "but he found he could get off better to-day. It's only for the Shylocks and Portias, you know. We can't do much until they're definitely decided, so we can tell who is left for the other parts."
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