trade-creditors

Updated: July 29, 2025

Between Chester and Crewe he had quite a doze, and dreamed that he had married Ella after all, and that her twenty thousand pounds had put the earthenware business on a footing of magnificent and splendid security. A few months later Horace's house and garden at Toft End were put up to auction by arrangement with his mortgagee and his trade-creditors.

Arnold Bennett - The Grim Smile of the Five Towns