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They revered him as a foreign gentleman of saintly amiability and incomprehensible preferences; and he was held in equal regard at the next green-grocer's where he spent every morning five centessimi for a bunch of radishes and ten for a little pat of butter to eat with his bread and coffee; he could not yet accustom himself to mere bread and coffee for breakfast, though he conformed as completely as he could to the Italian way of living.
The shutters were still up at Mrs. Wattles's green-grocer's shop, and that lady herself loomed large at the entrance to the courtyard leading to the Tocsin, surrounded by her chief gossips and by a dozen or two of dirty matrons. Several windows were up in the houses opposite and slatternly-looking women were craning out and exchanging observations. I hurried on and, pushing my way past Mrs.
I found a positive pleasure in the fact that I, the Marquis de Tregars, who had had a hundred thousand a year I must the next moment go out in person to the baker's and the green-grocer's to purchase my supplies for the day. I was proud to think that it was to my labor alone, to the work for which I was paid by Marcolet, that I owed the means of prosecuting my task.
They were real Australians, she thought to herself, born and bred in this sunny land. She could remember a day when she had been walking with her mother in the Pimlico Road a dark, foggy, raw day in late autumn. They had come upon a group of Australian soldiers standing round the door of a little green-grocer's shop, and chaffing the good-natured shop-woman about the quality of her fruit.
Little M'Dermott, who evidently did not much relish Short's company, armed himself with leaflets and set off on a propagandising expedition, and Kosinski and I wended our way in search of the office. At last we stopped in front of a little green-grocer's shop in a side street off the Hampstead Road.
We 'ave purchased a green-grocer's business in Columbus Avenue you might call it a sort of general business, fruit, vegetables, hegg eggs, coal, firewood and vinous liquors, sir. We hexpect to take possession in a fortnight, sir." "We? Have you a partner?" "Yes, sir. Watson, sir." "Watson? Is is he leaving me, too? Upon my soul, Diggs this is TOO bad!" "Yes, sir, it really is.
We have not succeeded in getting a cook, being in the meantime obliged to content ourselves with a temporary loan of the green-grocer's wife, and of Miss Pritty's small domestic; therefore I want to engage your wife, who is at present, I believe, open to an engagement.
Each has its church, of which it was in the earliest times the burial- ground; and each within its limits compasses an apothecary's shop, a mercer's and draper's shop, a blacksmith's and shoemaker's shop, a caffe more or less brilliant, a green-grocer's and fruiterer's, a family grocery nay, there is also a second-hand merchant's shop where you buy and sell every kind of worn-out thing at the lowest rates.
In these matters he became also agent and assistant to Mr Hazlit so that the gardening and stable-tending ultimately became a mere sham, and it was found necessary to provide a juvenile assistant, in the person of the green-grocer's eldest boy, to fill these responsible posts.
I on'y called to leave this 'ere little present of cabbidges an' cawliflowers with Mr Timms' kind compliments and mine. She's been wery kind to us, 'as Miss Pritty, an' we wishes to acknowledge it." "Please, ma'am," said the domestic with a broad smile, as she took the basket of vegetables, "would you like a cup of tea?" "What d'you mean, girl?" asked the green-grocer's wife in surprise.
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