ce of one huge joke. In such an air the sense
of strangeness soon wore off
and Tony was beginning to feel himself
vastly at home
when a lift of the tide bore him against a droll-looking
bell-ringing fellow who carried above his head a tall metal tree hung with
sherbet-glasses.
The encounter set the glasses spinning and three or four spun off and
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clattered to the stones. The sherbet-seller called on all the saints
and Tony
clapping a lordly hand to his pocket
tossed him a ducat by mistake for a
sequin. The fellow's eyes shot out of their orbits
and just then a
personable-looking young man who had observed the transaction stepped
up to Tony and said pleasantly
in English:
I perceivesirthat you are not familiar with our currency."
Does he want more?
says Tonyvery lordly; whereat the other
laughed and replied: "You have given him enough to retire from his
business and open a gaming-house over the arcade."
Tony joined in the laughand this incident bridging the preliminaries
the two young men were presently hobnobbing over a glass of Canary in
front of one of the coffee-houses
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