Knows nothing of business--has no business habits whatever.

However, we must make the best of him; I don't repent any thing I've done for him." "I hope not," said Miss Leaf, gravely.
And then there ensued an uncomfortable pause, which was happily broken by the opening of the door, and the sweeping in of a large, goodly figure.
"My sister, Mr.Ascott; my sister Selina." The little stout man actually started, and, as he bowed, blushed up to the eyes.
Miss Selina was, as I have stated, the beauty of the family, and had once been an acknowledged Stowbury belle.

Even now, though nigh upon forty, when carefully and becomingly dressed, her tall figure, and her well featured, fair complexioned, unwrinkled face, made her still appear a very personable woman.

At any rate, she was not faded enough, nor the city magnate's heart cold enough to prevent a sudden revival of the vision which--in what now seemed an almost antediluvian stage of existence--had dazzled, Sunday after Sunday, the eyes of the grocer's lad.

If there is one pure spot in a man's heart--oven the very worldliest of men--it is usually his boyish first love.
So Peter Ascott looked hard at Miss Selina, then into his hat, then, as good luck would have it, out of the window, where he caught sight of his carriage and horses.