Excerpt from The Pedlar, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of Emigration
There was more whispering inside the shop parlour, together with bustle and noise, as of a hasty removal of various articles, coupled with the cough of an old man, seemingly afflicted with influenza.
Want to buy a walking-stick! Bawled the impatient Englishman.
Corning, coming, sir; dear me! This cough racks me terribly, broke forth in feeble tones, as the door opened, and in company with a great deal of tobacco smoke, appeared an infirm old man, in connection with a demure-looking quaker of singularly mild demeanour.
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