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The opportunities of these families, may or may not be the same for educational advantages be that as it may, the children of the one go to school, and become qualified for the duties of life. One daughter becomes school-teacher, another a mantua-maker, and a third a fancy shop-keeper; while one son becomes a farmer, another a merchant, and a third a mechanic.
The ineffable happiness of the son of a shop-keeper of the faubourg Saint-Antoine in possessing a young, elegant, intelligent, and gentle wife, a Troisville, who had given him an entrance into all the salons of the faubourg Saint-Germain, and the delight of making her enjoy the pleasures of Paris, had kept him from Les Aigues and made him forget about Gaubertin, even to his very name.
"It is business to go with one's employer." "Business?" repeated Mlle. Nadiboff, with an accent half of disdain. "Surely, you are not sufficiently a petty shop-keeper or serf to think always of that word, 'business!" "I fear I am," Jack nodded. "Bah! Then you will never be a success with the ladies," taunted Mlle. Nadiboff, though her eyes were laughing, challenging.
Evil influences impressed upon it there certainly are, in liberal abundance not the least of these being that of the speculative shop-keeper, whose nature it is to seize any means of turning a penny, and who deals in dramatic art precisely as he would deal in groceries: but when we speak of "our stage" we do not mean an aggregation of shows or of the schemes of showmen.
This curio was carried back to town, and ultimately became the property of an enterprising curiosity shop-keeper, who cut artistic bullet holes in the pennon with his scissors thereby adding largely to its curiousness. Nothing else occurred to make Friday noteworthy. Saturday completed the round dozen weeks of siege life. How many more were to follow? Alas! our seers were discredited.
She was born in London, probably in 1693, and her father, a man by the name of Fowler, was a small shop-keeper. She speaks vaguely of having received an education beyond that afforded to the generality of her sex. Her marriage to Valentine Haywood, a clergyman at least fifteen years older than his spouse, took place before she was twenty, for the Register of St.
What an initiative in a new world was such selfish, unfeeling discretion! Why hope for exalted aid in his own troubles, while shirking opportunity to help the helpless? Oswald left the hotel, returning to corner of Wall Street and Broadway. Inquiring of a shop-keeper, "Where are persons arrested in this neighborhood taken by the police?" he receives the answer: "To police precinct station No. 2."
In two minutes the Twins were on their way, but it was more than an hour before they got back. First, the shop-keeper was out, and when he got back it took him some time to find large enough flags. At last, however, they returned, each carrying one done up in a paper parcel. "Here are the flags," Pierre announced proudly to the Verger, who met them at the entrance.
There is no novelty at Nijni; no new shape, pattern, or colour just coming out to catch popular favour; no unknown mechanical contrivance; no discovery likely to affect human progress and brought here for the entertainment of the intelligent, un-commercial visitor. There are only the shop-keeper and his customer, though it is a wholesale shop and on a very large scale.
He became an expert in nautical terms. He walked in knots, and even ordered a new carpet in fathoms after the shop-keeper had demonstrated, by means of his little boy's arithmetic book, the difference between that measurement and a furlong. "I'll have a voyage before I'm much older," he remarked one afternoon, as he sat in the captain's sitting-room.
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