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SHOPKEEPERS is not enough
thought of,” said Mrs.
Partington, after having
been out making some
purchases. “How they
do toil and how they suffer!
One dear pretty
young man, with a nice black coat
on and a gold chain and a starched
collar, with a carrivan on his neck,
told me with tears in his eyes that
he was selling to me at less than he
gave for it; and I bought it out of
pity, though I knowed I could get it five cents a yard
cheaper next door. Talk about Moses being executed on
one string, indeed! These poor creturs are Rogerses,
every one of 'em, by the yard-stick, and are all the time
a dying.”

There 's a constant flow of the milk of compassion in
her breast-inexhaustible; like the purse of the gentleman
in the story, the more that is taken from it the
more remains. The allusion to Moses was drawn from
an advertisement of a prodigy violinist, who was to play
a violin solo, from the oratorio of “Moses,” upon one
string.

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