He should know, being a pawnbroker, moneylender, and devil masquerading as human. |
In the past, when cash was scarce, spending patterns told us who had real cash as opposed to those who were on speaking terms with a pawnbroker. |
His brother, the pawnbroker, was there and had something to say to the Father. |
No respectable gentleman or lady would ever be seen dead darkening the back-street doorstep of a pawnbroker. |
Afterwards he vanished, as I say, and became a pawnbroker in Gwynne Street. |
I once had a desk in an office that overlooked a pawnbroker. |