We see by the lady above, after having seen the ways she had taken to put this man out of temper--I say, we see it conquered her temper, and brought her to lay out her money cheerfully, and be his customer ever after.
A sour, morose, dogmatic temper would have sent these ladies both away with their money in their pockets; but the man's patience and temper drove the lady back to lay out her money, and engaged her entirely.
FOOTNOTES: [15] Paternoster Row has long been the chief seat of the bookselling and publishing trade in London; and there are now some splendid shops of mercers or haberdashers in St Paul's Churchyard, also in Ludgate hill adjoining.
[16] [The necessity here insisted on seems a hard one, and scarcely consistent with a just morality.

Yet, if the tradesman takes a right view of his situation, he will scarcely doubt the propriety of Defoe's advice.

He must consider, that, in his shop, he is, as it were, acting a part.

He performs a certain character in the drama of our social arrangements, one which requires all the civility and forbearance above insisted on.

He is not called upon, in such circumstances, to feel, speak, and act, as he would find himself in honour required to do in his private or absolutely personal capacity--in his own house, for instance, or in any public place where he mingled on a footing of equality with his fellow-citizens.