But his customers were hard to please.

And, moreover, one was scarcely suited, before another came in.

Thus it continued for nearly half an hour, when, the poor woman became so anxious about the little ones she had left at home, and especially about Ella, who had appeared to have a good deal of fever when she came away, that she walked slowly down the store, and paused opposite to where Berlaps stood waiting upon a customer, in order to attract his attention.

But he took not the slightest notice of her.

She remained thus for nearly ten minutes longer.