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Death in so strange a shape formed a topic of tavern discussion in Cullerne, second only to a murder itself. Not since Mr Leveritt, the timber-merchant, shot a barmaid at the Blandamer Arms, a generation since, had any such dramatic action taken place on Cullerne boards. The loafers swore over it in all its bearings as they spat upon the pavement at the corner of the market square.
I lost the greater part of it in two nights' play at 'Daly's, so that my debts stood just as they were before; and before the vessel sailed for Holyhead, which carried away my old sharper of a timber-merchant, all that I had left of the money he brought me was a couple of hundred pounds, with which I returned home very disconsolately: and very suddenly, too, for my Dublin tradesmen were hot upon me, hearing I had spent the loan, and two of my wine-merchants had writs out against me for some thousands of pounds.
His companion repeated the name. "Well, it is all right," she said, presently. "He adores the very ground she walks on; only he's close, and won't show it much." Marty South appeared startled, and could not tear herself away. Yes, the timber-merchant asserted, he knew that well enough.
'The holy hall of study! gasped the Rabbi. 'Given over to unlawful meetings! 'The hooligans will meet there, if you don't, said David grimly. 'Don't you see it is the safest place for us? The police associate it only with learned weaklings. 'Hush, Haman! said the timber-merchant, and rose to go.
Daffy got on to the subject of social and political reform, and, after copious exposition, would ask what Mr. Lott thought. He knew the timber-merchant too well to expect an immediate reply. There came a long pause, during which Mr.
Daffy, sorry we can't travel down together. You'll catch the eight o'clock. 'I hope you told him plainly what you thought of him, said Mr. Daffy, in a voice of indignant shame. 'I did, answered the timber-merchant, 'and I don't think he's very likely to forget it. 'Farmiloe. Chemist by Examination. So did the good man proclaim himself to a suburb of a city in the West of England.
Robert M'Ward, the first editor of Rutherford's Letters, with all his assiduity, was only able to recover four letters out of the heap of correspondence that had passed between the rich timber-merchant of Leith and the exiled minister, but, those four tell us volumes, both about the intimacy of the two men and about the depth and the worth of the bailie's character.
'Oh, you were! exclaimed the timber-merchant, with gruffness, which referred not to his friend but to his son-in-law. 'I don't particularly want to see him, but I had thought of seeing my daughter. You wouldn't mind saying whether it was John Roper ? 'Yes, it was. 'Then we've both heard the same story, no doubt. Mr. Lott leaned back and stared out of the window.
But however humble he appeared, he had always the courage to dare to do that which was right, however it might resist the customs or the prejudices of men. In his own line of trade, which was that of a timber-merchant on an extensive scale, he would not allow any article to be sold for the use of a slave-ship, and he always refused those, who applied to him for materials for such purposes.
It was Paulette Dubois you know the woman that lives at the Seigneur's gate? Twelve years ago she was a handsome girl. I fell in love with her, but she left here. There were two other men. There was a timber-merchant, and there was a lawyer after. The timber-merchant was married; the lawyer wasn't. She lived at first with the timber-merchant. He was killed murdered in the woods."
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