It was great business for me--I had only two others in the store like it.

One of them old Milburn bought--the father of this man, d'ye mind him ?--the other stayed by me a matter of seven years.

I carried a light stock in those days." It was no longer a light stock.

The two men involuntarily glanced round them for the satisfaction of the contrast Murchison evoked, though neither of them, from motives of vague delicacy, felt inclined to dwell upon it.

John Murchison had the shyness of an artist in his commercial success, and the minister possibly felt that his relation toward the prosperity of a member had in some degree the embarrassment of a tax-gatherer's.