Had Starkey been at home when the fruiterer called, he, it was plain, would have had the offer of this engagement.
The fruiterer replied that he could do so at very short notice.
I have caught our little fruiterer in the act of pointing out the Professor's windows to chance customers; and on those days I am absorbed in the sporting columns of the afternoon paper, which, at other times, I pass over unread.
The milkman and the postman stop me in the street, the little fruitererround the corner and the young ladies at the Temple of Pomona in the Strand detain me in giving me my change as if I were an accessory to the crime.
I wonder if a fruiterer from some place else - say Worcestershire - would offer the same phenomena?
Never travel in the same carriage with three able-bodied seamen and a fruiterer from Kent; the A.
I wonder if a fruiterer from some place else--say Worcestershire--would offer the same phenomena?
