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"At eleven, at eleven pounds! this fine suite of hand-carved antique chairs, at eleven pounds! at eleven! at eleven, going going! "Fifteen!" said a voice from the distant corner; whereupon Adam drew a great sigh of relief, while the Corn-chandler contorted himself in his efforts to glare at Bellew round the side-board.
Gendral Junot is the son of a corn-chandler near the corn-market of this capital, and was a shopman to his father in 1789. Having committed some pilfering, he was turned out of the parental dwelling, and therefore lodged himself as an inmate of the Jacobin Club.
As for the corn-chandler, he brings more skill to it than any of them; he dances and says, "O mourner, my mistress, thou dost not fall short!" and draws the very heart out of one for laughing at him. Whilst the scavenger sings, so that the birds stop to listen to him, and dances and says, "News with my wife is not kept in a chest!"
'What's that to you? shrieked Sir Buzz, stamping his foot, 'isn't it enough if I pay for it? And then he jingled the money in his pocket again. So the corn-chandler tied up the flour in a bundle, and placed it in the mannikin's outstretched hand, fully expecting it would crush him, when, with a whiz! Sir Buzz flew off, with the shillings still in his pocket. Boom! bing! boom!
Bellew, however, seemed wholly unaffected, and went on imperturbably filling his pipe. "At sixty-five!" cried the Auctioneer, leaning towards Grimes with his hammer poised, "at sixty-five Will you make it another pound, sir! come, what do you say?" "I say no sir!" returned the Corn-chandler, slowly, and impressively, "I say no, sir, I say make it another twenty pound, sir!"
"I am a-going," said the Corn-chandler with much deliberation, "I am a-going to take them tapestry cheers, sir, likewise the grand-feyther clock in the corner here, likewise the four-post bed-stead wi' the carved 'ead-board, and most particular, Parsons, I shall take this here side-board.
He was a farmer's man, he said, and was at that moment employed in removing the furniture of the farmer's son, who had failed as a corn-chandler in Lymport, to Hillford, which he expected to reach about morn. He answered Evan's request that he would afford the young woman conveyance as far as Fallowfield: 'Tak' her in? That I will.
"That there Adam," puffed the Corn-chandler, "that there Adam ought to be throwed out into the stables where he belongs. I never see a man as was so much growed to feet and elbers, in all my days! He ought to be took," repeated the Corn-chandler, "and shook, and throwed out into the yard." "Yes," nodded the other, "took, and shook, and throwed out neck, and crop, sir!
Once again the Auctioneer leaned over and appealed to the Corn-chandler, who stood in the same attitude, jingling the money in his pocket, "Come sir, don't let a pound or so stand between you and a side-board that can't be matched in the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, come, what do you say to another ten shillings?"
The Corn-chandler was mopping violently at his face and neck down which ran, and to which clung, a foamy substance suspiciously like the froth of beer, and, as he mopped, his loud brassy voice shook and quavered with passion.
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