And listen attentively to a respectable merchant's tale.

His name is Vane, and I don't think anybody in this town will believe a respectable merchant attacked us in the street.

Not just among the noblewomen, either-the wives of respectable merchants sometimes found him to their taste.

The man in the stovepipe hat didn't drink, of course---those sort of people didn't, not the respectable merchants who lived near Bristol.

The dowry would buy her a husband: a fine, respectable merchant who would give her fat beautiful children to inherit the house and the animals.

"I am a respectable merchant from Pittsburg," went on the swindler.

Any respectable Parisian merchant who deals in butter, eggs and cheese will offer 10 or more different types of butter.

These are respectable merchants and spacefarers, by their own ethics, if not by Bethel customs.

You can give her a good beatin' if you like, teach her not to steal from respectable merchants," Punja suggested.

It looked like a respectable merchant's home.