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Chapter III

           If,astheauctioneersaid,coffeewasworthsevendollarsandthirty-twocentsabagintheopenmarket,andthisbuyerwasgettingthiscoffeeforseventy-fivedollars,hewasmakingthenandthereeighty-sixdollarsandfourcents,tosaynothingofwhathisprofitwouldbeifhesolditatretail.Asherecalled,hismotherwaspayingtwenty-eightcentsapound.Hedrewnearer,hisbookstuckedunderhisarm,andwatchedtheseoperationsclosely.Thestarch,ashesoonheard,wasvaluedattendollarsabarrel,anditonlybroughtsix.Somekegsofvinegarwereknockeddownatone-thirdtheirvalue,andsoon.Hebegantowishhecouldbid;buthehadnomoney,justalittlepocketchange.Theauctioneernoticedhimstandingalmostdirectlyunderhisnose,andwasimpressedwiththestolidity—solidity—oftheboy’sexpression.

           "IamgoingtoofferyounowafinelotofCastilesoap—sevencases,noless—which,asyouknow,ifyouknowanythingaboutsoap,isnowsellingatfourteencentsabar.Thissoapisworthanywhereatthismomentelevendollarsandseventy-fivecentsacase.WhatamIbid?WhatamIbid?WhatamIbid?"Hewastalkingfastintheusualstyleofauctioneers,withmuchunnecessaryemphasis;butCowperwoodwasnotundulyimpressed.Hewasalreadyrapidlycalculatingforhimself.Sevencasesatelevendollarsandseventy-fivecentswouldbeworthjusteighty-twodollarsandtwenty-fivecents;andifitwentathalf—ifitwentathalf—

           "Twelvedollars,"commentedonebidder.

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