![]() ![]() ![]() For there were not many buyers really-there was only one, and he kept these agents in separate offices to give a semblance of competition. And when the buying was over, these buyers sat alone and their fingers played restlessly with the pearls, and they wished they owned the pearls. But there was a price below which they dared not go, for it had happened that a fisherman in despair had given his pearls to the church. ![]() They waited in their chairs until the pearls came in, and then they cackled and fought and shouted and threatened until they reached the lowest price the fisherman would stand. In the town, in little offices, sat the men who bought pearls from the fishers.
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