His business will not wait for him, he being confined to his office, store or counting-room.

For example, "the wine-dealers[3376] are nearly all aristocrats in the sense of this word at this period," but "never were their sales so great as during the insurrections of the people and in revolutionary days." Hence the impossibility of obtaining their services in those days.

"They are seen on their premises very active, with three or four of their assistants," and turn a deaf ear to every appeal.

"How can we leave when custom is so good?
People must have their wants supplied.

Who will attend to them if I and the waiters should go away ?"--There are other causes of their weakness.