Without deigning to look at me at all, she languidly lifted the coin and bit it!--to see if it was good.

Then she turned her back and placidly waddled to her former roost again, tossing the money into an open till as she went along.

She was victor to the last, you see.
I have enlarged upon the ways of this girl because they are typical; her manners are the manners of a goodly number of the Baden-Baden shopkeepers.

The shopkeeper there swindles you if he can, and insults you whether he succeeds in swindling you or not.

The keepers of baths also take great and patient pains to insult you.