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Updated: June 14, 2025
Tell me a form of misery which I have not suffered and endured from childhood up! My mother was stabbed in Venice by a nobleman because she would not break her faith with my father and desert him. My father was known as a sorcerer and vender of poisons.
Long rows of slot machines offered all sorts of libidinous suggestions in placards, which proposed to debauch his morals for a penny a sight. And with absurd propriety a vender of shoddy jewels presented the chance of his lifetime in bizarre decoration. But somehow Dennis reached Broadway at last, and faced the unpleasant prospect of the next few days with despairing calculation.
I should like to go there and inquire about her, and also learn if the baby was convalescent or dead, but I am satisfied that she would rise up, a mute and reproachful appeal, so personal in its artful suggestions, that it would end in the Association instantly transferring her to my hands. My next familiar mendicant was a vender of printed ballads.
All manner of quaint figures, known to childhood, pass along that visionary street: the scissors grinder, town crier, baker's cart, lumbering stage-coach, charcoal vender, hand-organ man and monkey, a drove of cattle, a military parade the "trainers," as we used to call them. Hawthorne had no love for his fellow citizens and took little part in the modern society of Salem.
On the left was a charcoal vender, a thread-and-needle shop and an establishment for the manufacture of umbrellas. The house appeared all the higher for the reason that on either side were two low buildings, squeezed close to it, and stood square, like a block of granite roughly hewn, against the blue sky. Totally without ornament, the house grimly suggested a prison.
"Auchty pund, sir, if you please the lave when you like; I ken ye, Mr. Miller." While counting her the notes, the purchaser said slyly to her: "There's more than a hundred cran in the cutter, my woman." "A little, sir," replied the vender; "but, ere I could count them till ye by baskets, they would lose seven or eight cran in book,* your gain, my loss." *Bulk.
But first of all, I must say I very much wish you had some costume a little less marked than that of an English lady. Now, if you could pass as a peasant-girl, or an old woman, or a goatherd's wife, or a vender of quack medicines, or anything humble and yet national, why " Miss Talbot shook her head with a mournful smile, and looked troubled.
The ungodly, insolent fellows who surrounded the Dominican Jacobus, the vender of indulgences, had turned from him, while he exhorted them, as if he were an importunate beggar.
Nobody's going to give you away." Pietro Tobigili, that gay young chestnut vender he of the radiant smiles gave forth, in his warm tenor, his own interpretation of "Ach du lieber Augustine," whenever Bertha, rosy waitress in the little German restaurant, showed her face at the door. For a month it had been a courtship; and the merchant sang often: "Ahaha, du libra Ogostine, Ogostine, Ogostine!
When all was left in darkness, save where a blinking red and white line signal still showed, Ram Lal Singh crept away from the line of the rails. The rich jewel vender clutched in his bosom the handle of Mirzah Shah's poisoned dagger, the deadly dagger of a merciless prince. He had long pondered over the sudden demand made upon him by the Lady of the Silver Bungalow.
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