But I am going to enter on another life altogether.

I am going to be married next week to Mr.David Heddegan.' The young man--fortified as he was by a natural cynical pride and passionateness--winced at this unexpected reply, notwithstanding.
'Who is Mr.David Heddegan ?' he asked, as indifferently as lay in his power.
She informed him the bearer of the name was a general merchant of Giant's Town, St.Maria's island--her father's nearest neighbour and oldest friend.
'Then we shan't see anything more of you on the mainland ?' inquired the schoolmaster.
'O, I don't know about that,' said Miss Trewthen.
'Here endeth the career of the belle of the boarding-school your father was foolish enough to send you to.

A "general merchant's" wife in the Lyonesse Isles.

Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails ?' 'He's not in such a small way as that!' she almost pleaded.

'He owns ships, though they are rather little ones!' 'O, well, it is much the same.