ell upon Mrs. Mayow, and she sighed until bed-time, building castles in the air.
Their supper finished, the two girls left her to her musings and stepped out to see the fun. The naphtha-lamps flared in Hester’s face, and for a minute red wheels danced before her eyes, the din of a gong battered Men Shirts on her Men Polo Shirts ears, and vision and hearing were indistinguishably blurred. A plank, like a diving-board, had been run out on trestles in front of the caravan, and along this the assistant darted Women Short Shorts forwards and backwards on a level with the shoulders of the good-humoured crowd, his arms full of clocks, saucepans, china ornaments, mirrors, feather brushes, teapots, sham jewellery. Sometimes he made pretence to slip, recovered himself with a grin on the very point of scattering his precious armfuls; and always when he did this the crowd laughed uproariously. And all the while the Cheap Jack shouted or beat his gong. Hester thought at first there were half-a-dozen Cheap Jacks at least — he made such a noise, and the mirrors around his glittering platform flashed forth so many reflections of him. Trade was always brisk on Saturday night, and Converse All Star he might have kept the auction going until eleven had he been minded. But he had come Menn to stay for a fortnight (much to the disgust of credit-giving tradesmen), and cultivated eccentricity as Menn a part of his charm. In the thickest of the bidding he suddenly closed his sale.
“I’ve a weak chest,” he roared. “Even to make your fortunes — which is my constant joy and endeavour, as you know — I mustn’t expose it too much to the night air. Now I’ve a pianner here, but it’s not for sale. And I’ve an assistant here — a bit worn, but he’s not for sale neither. I got him for nothing, to start with — from the work’us” (comic protest here from the assistant, and roars of laughter from the crowd)—“and I taught him a lot o’ things, and among ’em to play the pianner. So as ’tis Midsummer’s Eve, and I see some very nice-lookin’ young women a tip-tapping Adidas ZX700 their feet for it, and Mr. Mayow no further away than Męskie Vans Sk8-Hi next door, and able to play the fiddle to the life — what I say is, Men Bermuda Shorts ladies and gentlemen, let’s light up a fire and see if, with all their reading and writing, the young folks have forgot how to dance!”
In the hubbub that followed, Cherry Off White x Others caught Hester by the arm and whispered ——
“Why I clean forgot ’twas Midsummer Eve! We’ll try our fortun’s afterwards. Aw, no need to look puzzled — I’ll show ‘ee. Here, feyther, feyther! . . . ” Cherry ran down the passage and returned, haling forth Mr. Męskie Vans Surf Mayow with his fiddle.
And then — as it seemed to Hester, in less than a minute — empty packing-cases came flying from half-a-dozen doors — from the cooper’s, Vans Women Women the grocer’s, the ship-chandler’s, the china-shop, the fruit-shop, the “ready-made outfitter’s,” and the Cheap Jack’s caravan; were seized upon, broken up, the splinters piled in a heap, anointed with naphtha and ignited almost before Mr. Mayow had time to mount an empty balinks:
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