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Updated: June 26, 2025
The corn-dealers shop was closed, as on a Sunday; the optician and his blind wife had locked up their rooms and were spending Easter-tide, it might be hoped, amid more cheerful surroundings. Hilliard sat with his door open, that he might easily hear the knock which announced his guests at the entrance below. It sounded, at length, but timidly.
The main street is full of shops, corn-dealers, drapers, butchers, bakers, and general dealers in everything, from a horse to a hayseed; but out of the main track there are no houses only hovels as wretched as any in Connaught. It is quite evident that the poor people who inhabit them cannot buy much of anything.
Tuesday was the great Candlemas fair. At breakfast she said to Elizabeth-Jane quite coolly: "I imagine your father may call to see you to-day. I suppose he stands close by in the market-place with the rest of the corn-dealers?" She shook her head. "He won't come." "Why?" "He has taken against me," she said in a husky voice. "You have quarreled more deeply than I know of."
Such weakness would have been excusable; for business was as one dejected porkman who kept a shop which refused to reciprocate the compliment by keeping him, informed me 'bitter bad. Most of the harness-makers and corn-dealers were gone the way of the coaches, but it was a pleasant recognition of the eternal procession of Children down that old original steep Incline, the Valley of the Shadow, that those tradesmen were mostly succeeded by vendors of sweetmeats and cheap toys.
The evil consequence of this is, that the richer corn-dealers sometimes succeed in establishing a monopoly, no grain remaining but in their warehouses, the petty traders having been obliged to sell off.
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