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Updated: September 14, 2025
A tradesman behind his counter must have no flesh and blood about him, no passions, no resentment. He must never be angry; no, not so much as seem to be so.
His publisher had told him that three had been sold. I laughed, as at a jest. "You don't suppose I CARE, do you?" he said, with something like a snarl. I disclaimed the notion. He added that he was not a tradesman. I said mildly that I wasn't, either, and murmured that an artist who gave truly new and great things to the world had always to wait long for recognition.
A wild Irishman, named F., one evening beginning to say something at a large supper, Matthews roared 'Silence! and then pointing to F., cried out, in the words of the oracle, 'Orson is endowed with reason. When Sir Henry Smith was expelled from Cambridge for a row with a tradesman named 'Hiron, Matthews solaced himself with shouting under Hiron's windows every evening
But it is fair to say that in the next of them, a workman and a tradesman, we already feel something of that return to real issues leading up to the real revolts that broke up Victorianism at last. In the mere art of words, indeed, William Morris carried much further than Swinburne or Rossetti the mere imitation of stiff mediæval ornament. Swinburne could write
The wedding will take place in six weeks. Well, why do you stand glowering there?" she demanded impatiently. "What have you got to say?" "I have got to say," replied Douglas, then his voice broke a little, "that I don't see how you can do it, or put that fat Jew tradesman into my father's place!"
While the tree was advancing, everything else at the castle was going backward, through feasting and gambling, for these are two rollers upon which nobody stands safely. Less than six years afterwards the baron passed out of his castle-gate a poor beggar, while the baronial seat had been bought by a rich tradesman.
'I wish I had the fellow's address. Beauchamp looked wistfully at Lydiard, but he did not stimulate the generous offer to obtain it for him. Perhaps it was as well to forget the fellow. 'You see the effect of those articles, he said. 'You see what I mean by unseasonable times, Lydiard retorted. 'He didn't talk like a tradesman, Beauchamp mused. 'He may be one, for all that.
But now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to talk about something besides this exalted position. Anything else you please." Tradesman Batt opened the door and said: "Are you coming, Miss Torsen? It's stopped raining now." "Oh, leave me alone," she replied. Tradesman Batt withdrew. "Why do you turn him away like that?" I asked.
He could not tune his voice to the tradesman note, and on the slightest provocation he became, quite unintentionally, offensive. Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb. Yet he came hither with hopes.
She desired above everything not to be considered commonplace, believed in love at first sight, was not altogether unfavourable to elopements, carefully repressed any tendency to unnecessary order, wore a loose dressing-gown all the morning, had her breakfast in bed, let her hair stray a little over her face, cultivated a habit of shaking it off and pushing it back with her fingers, and generally went as far to be thought a little "wild" as was possible for the wife of a respectable, solid, eminently British, close-fisted Borough tradesman.
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