Jollyman's Teas, Jollyman's sugar--can't you _hear_ 'em saying it, already?
It's a fortune in itself, that name.

Why, sir, if a grocer called Boxon came at this moment, and offered to take me into partnership on half profits, I wouldn't listen to him--there!" Naturally, all this did not pass without many a pang in Warburton's sensitive spots.

He had set his face like brass, or tried to do so; but in the night season he could all but have shed tears of humiliation, as he tossed on his comfortless pillow.

The day was spent in visits to wholesale grocery establishments, in study of trade journals, in calculating innumerable petty questions of profit and loss.

When nausea threatened him: when an all but horror of what lay before him assailed his mind; he thought fixedly of The Haws, and made a picture to himself of that peaceful little home devastated by his own fault.