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"Does he still wish to get back into the grocery business?" "He'd be only too glad, sir, But, of course, any place as you offered him " "Well, it happens," said Warburton, "that it is the grocery business I'm thinking about." "You, sir?" gasped Mrs. Hopper. "I think I shall take Boxon's shop." "You, sir? Take a grocer's shop? You mean, you'd put Allchin in to manage it?" "No, I don't, Mrs.
His reply came forth with explosive abruptness. "Lost my place at Boxon's, sir." "And how's that?" "It happened last Saturday, sir. I don't want to make out as I wasn't at all to blame. I know as well as anybody that I've got a will of my own. But we're open late, as perhaps you know, sir, on Saturday night, and Mr. Boxon well, it's only the truth he's never quite himself after ten o'clock.
There's a good deal of profit in the grocery business, and Boxon's situation is good; there's no other grocer near him. But of course as Allchin says you want to lay out a good deal at starting " "Yes, yes, of course, you must have stock." said Will carelessly. "Bring me some tea at once, Mrs. Hopper."
To this point had Will Warburton brought himself, urged by conscience and fear. Little by little, since the afternoon when he gazed at Boxon's closed shop, had this purpose grown in his mind, until he saw it as a possibility a desirability a fact. By shopkeeping, he might hope to earn sufficient for supply of the guaranteed income to his mother and sister, and at the same time be no man's servant.
"My brother-in-law wishes to see you, sir. He's in trouble again lost his place at Boxon's a few days ago. I don't exac'ly know how it happened, but he'll explain everything. He's very unfortunate, sir, is Allchin." "Tell him to come before nine to-morrow morning, if he can." "Yes, sir. I'm sure it's very kind of you, sir." "What else?" "Nothing as I can think of just now, sir."
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