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Off he trotted, merry as a cricket, with now a skip, and now a slide. At every corner he held his breath, half expecting to run into Santa himself. Nothing of the sort happened, however, and he soon found himself before the gay windows of a toyshop. There he saw a spring hobbyhorse, as large as a Shetland pony, all saddled and bridled, too lacking nothing but a rider.
It was so wonderful that she actually remained speechless with astonishment, until Martin caught her up; and then they stood side by side and stared at it. To begin with, it was not a toyshop at all.
He nodded the way he did when he was satisfied the way a toyshop animal's head nods less and less until it stops. "I'm sorry I asked," he said. "Good-night." What he had said was enough to show me that his imagination had been sharpened and sharpened and sharpened.
Esmond found the ante-chamber crowded with milliners and toyshop women, obsequious goldsmiths with jewels, salvers, and tankards; and mercers' men with hangings, and velvets, and brocades. My Lady Duchess elect was giving audience to one famous silversmith from Exeter Change, who brought with him a great chased salver, of which he was pointing out the beauties as Colonel Esmond entered.
The latter employs his money as he does his time, and never spends a shilling of the one, nor a minute of the other, but in something that is either useful or rationally pleasing to himself or others. The former buys whatever he does not want, and does not pay for what he does want. He cannot withstand the charms of a toyshop; snuff-boxes, watches, heads of canes, etc., are his destruction.
'Oh, thank you, auntie, she said; 'yes, I should like very much to go and to see the toyshop, because, you know, there'll soon be Christmas presents to think about, and it would be a very good thing to find out in plenty of time where I could get them best.
Something turned him into a little toyshop near Coenties Slip and he saw a tugboat deck-hand purchase a pitiful little train of cars, laying his quarter on the counter with the softest smile he had seen on a man's face in a twelvemonth. "Something for the kid, eh?" said Dan rather gruffly. "Sure," replied the deck-hand, and he took his bundle with a sort of defiant expression.
But Aunt Mattie kept all these thoughts in her own mind, and after a minute or two's silence she began to talk to Rosamond about other things, as she did not want the little girl to trouble herself about what she had told or not told of the boys' affairs. 'Next Saturday, said Mrs. Caryll, 'I shall have to drive to Weadmere there is a better toyshop there than at Crowley.
I wouldn't be afraid to tackle that fissure find out what's back of it although I'm not a Tin Scout ha! ha! out with the whole toyshop to-day; all my monkey trappings," exploded a rough voice suddenly from among a trio of clownish-looking boys who hovered, vulture-like, on the edge of the picnic ground, transfixing with a sanguinary eye the Baby, whose soft heart was of blueberry "duff."
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh the square in front of the Plaza that tall chopped bulky tower lit from within like a model in a toyshop window motors purring up to its door like thin dark cats, motors purring away.
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