It was as cleanly dining in its chief room as in the woods, and the aqua vitae, if bad, was cheap.

In good humor with himself, and by nature lavish with his earnings, he offered to make the storekeeper his guest for the day.

The latter curtly declined the invitation.

He had bread and meat in his wallet, and wanted no drink but water.

He would dine beneath the trees on the market green, would finish his business in town, and be half way back to the plantation while the trader--being his own man, with no fear of hue and cry if he were missed--was still at hazard.
This question settled, the two kept each other company for several hours longer, at the end of which time they issued from the store at which the greater part of their business had been transacted, and went their several ways,--Hugon to the ordinary in Nicholson Street, and MacLean to his dinner beneath the sycamores on the green.