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"Manning," he said, "could I get you to undertake a little work for me this evening?" "Why, certainly, Senator, certainly," said the grocery-man. "When did you get back? Glad to see you. Certainly." "I want you to get everything together that would make a nice Christmas for a family of eight father and mother and six children Christmas tree, groceries, toys you know what I mean."
You'll need credit for groceries and furniture. I am profoundly interested in this business. I am more than willing to advance a little capital, or to ensure your credit. A man would have sense enough to take me up at once." "I believe you are right," Diantha reluctantly agreed. "And you shan't lose by it!" Her friends were acutely interested in her progress, and showed it in practical ways.
Lumber must still be cut, streams must still be dammed, railroads must still be built; but now that the pioneers, the men of fire, had blazed the way others could follow. Methods were established. It was all a business, like the selling of groceries. The industrial rank and file could attend to details.
"The Republican Party is going to the dogs," he asserted. "It used to be an honourable party, but now it is no better than the other. Politics are only conducted, now, for the purpose of making unscrupulous men rich, sir. For years I furnished this city with good groceries, if I do say it myself.
Other travellers have gone, relying on the abundant Caribou, yet saw none, so starved. I relied on no Caribou, I took plenty of groceries, and because I was independent, the Caribou walked into camp nearly every day, and we lived largely on their meat, saving our groceries for an emergency, which came in an unexpected form.
The streets, some wider, some narrower, all told of sordid struggling. The shops were greasy, fusty, grimy. The groceries exposed in their windows damaged specimens of bankrupt stocks, discolored tinned goods, grey sugars, mouldy dried fruits; at their doors, flitches of fat bacon, cut and dusty.
As he hurried along the empty street, a sign over one of the doors, barely discernible in the darkness, attracted his attention. He paused close to it, and made out the words, "West India goods and groceries;" and at once his fancy reveled in the savory eatables stored beyond his reach.
They started, the three mourners, on the long drive to the cemetery, through unfrequented streets lined with mediocre dwellings, interspersed with groceries and saloons short cuts known only to hearse drivers: they traversed, for some distance, that very Wilderness road where Mr.
Within two months the arrangements were complete. Grindley junior divided his time between dispensing groceries and despatching telegrams and letters, and was grateful for the change. Grindley junior's mind was fixed upon the fashioning of a cornucopia to receive a quarter of a pound of moist.
Carroll looked in a puzzled way from her to Charlotte, who had turned with a little air of defiance. "Had he refused to let us have any more groceries?" said she. "No," said Charlotte. "I told you he had not," said Anna, shaking out a lace handkerchief, which diffused an odor of violet through the room. "Then why did you pay him, honey?" asked Mrs. Carroll, wonderingly, of Charlotte.
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