A Day At Laguerre's And Other Days : Being Nine Sketches
A Day At Laguerre's And Other Days : Being Nine Sketches
Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
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Waitings, not to mock, but to kotow, to bend the ear and genuflect, now that my port- folio is bursting, and to say, " Come, let us see your stuff ! " and " How the devil did you get away with so much } " So one morning I tell Isaac to pack my trap, and this time to slip it inside its leather traveling-case, and to get me 72 Digitized byCjOOQlC a "hamal," a human burro — an Arme- Under tki nian, perhaps — who will toss my trunks ^^'^^^^ with the extra canvases now all filled^ upon his back, and... never break trot until he dumps it at the station two miles away. I instantly detect, in spite of our close intimacy, an expression of relief wrinkling Mr. Yapouly's tobacco-colored countenance. He sighs his regrets, but with a lightness that shows his heart is not in them. He has been but a '' ha- mal " himself, he thinks, lugging the trap about in the heat, and sitting for hours doing nothing — absolutely nothing. And I have bought so little in the ba- zaars, and his commissions are so small.
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