The Pearl
The Pearl
the pearl buyers knew of Kino's pearl before he even arrived because
the pearl buyers knew of Kino's pearl before he even arrived because
From the text:
The news of the approach of the procession ran ahead of it, and in their little dark offices the pearl buyers stiffened and grew alert. They got out papers so that they could be at work when Kino appeared, and they put their pearls in the desks, for it is not good to let an inferior pearl be seen beside a beauty. And word of the loveliness of Kino's pearl had come to them.
The Pearl