Unlike an ordinary shopkeeper, a traveling pearl merchant, or dealer, was what might be called a connoisseur in the trade, one who had the keen eye or the sensibility needed to discern the aesthetic qualities and subtleties that mark a pearl as extraordinary.
Pretēji parastam veikalniekam, šim tirgotājam, kas ceļoja, meklēdams pērles, piemita liels vērīgums, un viņš zināja, ar kādām īpašībām jāizceļas ļoti labai pērlei.