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It takes me back to the table where my mother sat smiling, surrounded by her troop of little ones." The repast ended, Brotteaux set out for Joly's, the toy-merchant in the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, who took the dancing-dolls Caillou had refused, and ordered not another gross of them like the latter, but a round twenty-four dozen to begin with.
He scouted, from his heart, the insinuations of the Toy-merchant, and yet they filled him with a vague, indefinite uneasiness. For, Tackleton was quick and sly; and he had that painful sense, himself, of being of slow perception, that a broken hint was always worrying to him.
Breaking off his song, he wished a polite good-day to Gamelin, who returned him a fraternal greeting and helped him down with his parcel, for which the old man thanked him. "There," said he, shouldering his burden again, "you have a batch of dancing-dolls which I am going to deliver straight away to a toy-merchant in the Rue de la Loi.
Caleb's employer, Tackleton, in his large green cape and bull-headed looking mahogany tops, was then described as entering pretty much in the manner of what one might suppose to be that of an ogrish toy-merchant.
You didn't say that, of course. The Carrier set his grip upon the collar of the Toy-merchant, and shook him like a reed. 'Listen to me! he said. 'And take care that you hear me right. Listen to me. Do I speak plainly? 'Very plainly indeed, answered Tackleton. 'As if I meant it? 'Very much as if you meant it. 'I sat upon that hearth, last night, all night, exclaimed the Carrier.
One evening when old Brotteaux arrived in the Rue de la Loi bringing a gross of dancing-dolls for the citoyen Caillou, the toy-merchant, the latter, a soft-spoken, polite man as a rule, stood there stiff and stern among his dolls and punch-and-judies and gave him a far from gracious welcome. "Have a care, citoyen Brotteaux," he began, "have a care!
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