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A greengrocer like Mr. Gruner? Ho, ho!" he shouted out wholesome laughter. Sam grinned. He was less ready to laugh. Life had taken toll of that birthright already. "I hate vegetables. Beastly, dirty things," he said prosaically. "No, I wouldn't be a green-grocer." "Well what? An engineer? A doctor, lawyer, parson?" "Why not a king now?" scoffed Sam. "Not enough situations vacant.
The green-grocer examined the paper, and said it was that five pounds was the exact amount. "You can put the receipt in your pocket," said Mr Hazlit, turning round and counting out five sovereigns on the table, which he pushed towards the landlord.
Williams, of Cranbourne Street, ill of a fever, had kept his bed ten weeks, was cured instantly; 'a gentleman, confined with gout in his stomach, kept his bed, was cured instantly; 'a green-grocer in Weymouth Street, Marylebone, next door to the Weavers' Arms, cured of lameness in both legs went with crutches is perfectly well; 'a Miss W , a public vocal performer, cured, but had not goodness of heart enough to own the cure publicly; 'a child cured of blindness, at Mr.
The green-grocer of that sequestered campo was an old woman, the apothecary was gray, and his shop was haunted by none but superannuated physicians; the baker, the butcher, the waiters at the caffè were all professionally, and, as purveyors to her family, out of the question; the sacristan, who sometimes appeared at the perruquier's to get a coal from under the curling-tongs to kindle his censer, had but one eye, which he kept single to the service of the Church, and his perquisite of candle-drippings; and I hazard little in saying that the Paronsina might have danced a polka around Campo San Giuseppe without jeopardy so far as concerned the handsome wood-carver, for his wife always sat in the shop beside him.
"Oh? the green-grocer!" exclaimed both ladies together, but they did not add what they thought, namely, that the green-grocer was a very impertinent fellow to play off upon them what looked very much like a practical joke. "Perhaps the best way to settle the matter," said Kate, "will be to show the gentleman our room. He will then understand the impossibility."
The green-grocer himself, and his wife, discovered that Christian influence, good example, and kind words, were so attractive and powerful as to induce them, insensibly, to begin a process of imitation, which ended, quite naturally, in a flourishing business and a happy home. The small domestic also made a discovery or two.
Assaults on unprotected females are confined to the slums, where heroes do not dwell, and are avenged by the nearest magistrate. Your modern burglar is generally an out-of-work green-grocer. His 'swag' usually consists of an overcoat and a pair of boots, in attempting to make off with which he is captured by the servant-girl. Suicides and murders are getting scarcer every season.
The city is his, and every green-grocer in it is only too much honoured if the fastidious animal will condescend to make free with his cabbages." "Once clear of the crowded streets, we got on quicker, and about six miles out we found the elephant which had been sent out from the royal stable to carry us to Ambér.
Next, comes a loud-tongued salesman, who out-brays Lablache, but confines his singing to "Che vuole, che vuole!" and oranges and lemons are his commodity. From an itinerant green-grocer, who passes with his panniered donkey, suddenly bursts forth, "Cimaroli, cimaroli!" The last cry we hear is that of "Tutti vivi, tutti vivi!" from the asparagaro, who is bringing frogs and wild asparagus into Rome.
He was asked whether the house was to be put on the market. A neighbour, the green-grocer, had expressed his willingness to look after Daniel’s interests. Daniel wrote in reply that they should do whatever seemed best. There was a heavy mortgage on the house, and the amount that could reasonably be asked for it was not large. He retired to a desolate and waste place.
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