" "God grant I may not require your services, sir!" replied the grocer, shuddering.

" "Pray be seated for a moment," rejoined the grocer, motioning the other to the chair.

" "I have a stout heart, and a firm reliance on the goodness of Heaven, which will enable me to bear up against most evils," returned the grocer.

" "Amabel," observed the grocer, "as your fatheras your wellwisherI should desire to see you wedded to Leonard.

On the eventful day the solemn man started for the station, but on the way met the village grocer, who talked so entertainingly that the bridegroom missed his train.

One of us entered, and asked the grocer, who was sitting behind his counter, to show us M. Cournet's house.

" "Come home, mistress," cried the grocer, dragging her through the crowd which had gathered round them.

But she wouldn't let me go to the picnic; and not only that, but I think she changed grocers, for Mr. Livingstone hasn't been here for a long time, and when I asked Susie where he was she looked funny, and said we weren't getting our groceries where Mr. Livingstone worked any longer.

[but is now more familiar to all who have entered any grocers shop throughout the length and breadth of England], "is still more exquisite when eaten fresh on the shores which it frequents.

Glancing angrily at Blaize, the apprentice conducted the doctor to the inner room, where they found the grocer, with the Bible on his knee, watching by the bedside of his son.

I doubt if there be not something beguiling in a porch over the door of a country shopsomething that relieves the odium of bargaining, and imbues even the small grocer with a flavor of cheap hospitalities.

" "I didn't know you were a cook," interjected the grocer in surprise.

" "No more!" interrupted the grocer, sternly.

On the same night, however, an alarming incident occurred, which kept the grocer and his apprentice for a long time on the watch.

And the pathetic appeal of the smart fashionable for lump sugar, on the ground that her darling Fido cannot be expected to catch a spoonful of Demerara from the end of his nose, leaves the grocer cold.

"Ithere was an idea that you went to Australia toto better your condition," murmured the grocer.

The man who pays the grocer rules the world.

"Is she still at Ashdown?" pursued the grocer.

"There will be one advantage, which I did not foresee, in closing my house," remarked the grocer aside to the apprentice.

Before leaving home H. told me to seek out the grocer, and to lay in a stock of everything she dispensed.

"Sorry be durned!" shouted the grocer.

"If all had acted as I have done," sighed the grocer, as he gazed at these desolate habitations, "how many lives, under God's providence, would have been saved!"

Belle thanked the young grocer, and gratefully accepted his company.

On arriving there, he assured his master that he might with entire safety open his house, as he proposed, on the morrow; and Doctor Hodges, who visited the grocer the same evening, confirmed the opinion.

Here an incident occurred which deeply affected the grocer.