"Blind, mute...can't even play an instrument...no wonder you sold him for so cheap! What use can he be!"

This mistress was a fiery one and the way she wringled her silken hankerchief, it might as well have been the bald, stuttering, slave merchant's neck.

"Now, now, My Lady, we...we already signed the contract and--"

"Spitting into eachother's hands' is not a legal document!" She screeched, gathering the attention of serveral beggars who had been figting over the carcass of a dead rat.

The man waved his hand through the air, dismissing her words, "You say whore, I say lover--it's all the same. Besides," the merchant pointed over to the two scrawny figures who had gone back to wrestling in the green sludge and grinned, "we had witnesses."

[This message has been edited by M.D. Westbrook (edited November 09, 2005).]

"Sold him for so cheap" - should either be "sold him so cheap" (strictly, it should be "cheaply" in that instance, but people don't always distinguish adverbs and adjectives in dialogue), or "sold him for so cheap a price".

"What use can he be!" should be "What use can he be?"

Wringled is not a word. I assumed you may mean "wrung", which is the past tense of "wring".

"Serveral" is spelt (or spelled...) "several".

That said; there's colour here, and a kind of morbid delight in squalor, that has a certain promise. But I think you either need to proofread your piece thoroughly before asking for readers, or else polish up your grammar and spelling basics. Were I an editor, there's no way I'd read on any further.

We need to know whose POV we're in, immediately.

Edited to say: I forgot to say I like the mood too. You set the scene well.