The very next day, a shop in the same street, that had been to let for some time, displayed above its now open door the sign, _John Turnbull, late_--then a very small of--_Turnbull and Marston;_ whereupon Mr.Brett saw the oversight of which he had been guilty.
There was nothing in the shop when it was opened, but that Turnbull utilized for advertisement: he had so arranged, that within an hour the goods began to arrive, and kept arriving, by every train, for days and days after, while all the time he made public show of himself, fussing about, the most triumphant man in the town.

It made people talk, and if not always as he would have liked to hear them talk, yet it was talk, and, in the matter of advertisement, that is the main thing.
When it was told Mary, it gave her not the smallest uneasiness.

She only saw what had several times seemed on the point of arriving in her father's lifetime.

She would not have moved a finger to prevent it.

Let the two principles meet, with what result God pleased! Whether he had suspected her design, and had determined to challenge her before the public, I can not tell; but his wife's aversion to shopkeeping was so great, that one who knew what sort of scene passed because of it between them, would have expected that, but for some very strong reason, he would have been glad enough to retire from that mode of gaining a livelihood.