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But we persuaded him to postpone their purchase until our arrival in some foreign city, where the tradespeople are no doubt more inured to this sort of talk, or else more naturally amiable. On the subject of the hat, however, he was adamant. He maintained that without that he could not travel, and, accordingly, we pulled up at a small shop in the Blackfriars Road.
He went to his printers, and had a thousand order-checks printed. These forms ran thus: "Dr. Notice: Dr. Staines disowns all orders not printed on this form, and paid for at date of order." He exhibited these forms, and warned all the tradespeople, before a witness whom he took round for that purpose. He paid off Pearman on the spot.
It was a letter from one of the tradespeople, whom Mrs. Gallilee had attempted to pacify with a payment "on account." The tradesman felt compelled, in justice to himself, to appeal to Mr. "Wretch!" cried Mrs. Gallilee. "I'll settle his bill, and never employ him again!" She opened her cheque-book, and dipped her pen in the ink. A faint voice meekly protested. Mr. Gallilee was on his legs again.
Moslem boatmen, porters, barbers, &c. serve Christians and all and sundry. But in addition to these, there is a sort of bazaar in the Turkish quarter, occupied by tradespeople, who subsist almost exclusively by the wants of their co-religionists living in the quarter, as well as of the Turkish garrison in the fortress.
I had been a broker in Pompeii, and these were the records of moneys I had loaned, on interest, to various merchants and tradespeople. I was always fond of dealing in money, and at present I am a broker in Wall street. During the first crusades I was a banker in Genoa, and lent large sums to the noble knights who were setting forth for Jerusalem." "Was much of it repaid?" I asked. "Most of it.
"Old enough to know better than to get herself talked about the first hour she arrived," observed Miss Pendarth grimly. "I don't think she can have done that " "Not only did she bring a man with her, a Captain Tremaine, but just before he left they had some kind of quarrel which was overheard by two of the tradespeople who were calling to leave their cards." "How how horrid," murmured Betty.
They had to stay there three weeks. They were put in the loft on some hay, and Chalange, Le Chevalier's servant, who took them their food, always found them sleeping or playing cards. In order not to awaken the suspicions of the usual tradespeople, Lerouge, called "Bornet," formerly a baker, undertook to make the bread for the house in the Rue Saint-Sauveur.
Discontents, however, began to arise, on the one hand from those who remembered only the successes of Buonaparte, and not the miseries they had caused, and on the other from the working-classes, who declared that the bourgeois, or tradespeople, had gained everything by the revolution of July, but they themselves nothing.
"Pooh, pooh, but you have raised so much money on this inheritance that there is nothing of it left hardly, certainly not sufficient to pay your debts. It is the bait you used to allure your tradespeople into giving you credit." At finding himself so easily fathomed, Croisenois burst into a peel of laughter.
Joseph Balsamo was born in 1743 at Palermo, where his parents were tradespeople in a good way of business.
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