text:  Cigar-dealers stood at their shop-doors or leaned over their counters with their hands in their breeches-pockets smoking their own genuine Havannahs in desperate independence: here a livery-stable keeper with a couple of questionable friends rattled a tandem over the stones as if such things never were let out at two guineas a-day: then a fishmonger whose wide front but a week before teemed with such quantity and quality as spoke audibly to every passer-by of bursary dinners and passing suppers was now soliciting a customer to take his choice of three lank cod-fish ticketed at so much per lb