12.Draper nearly always looked in on him for a moment before dinner: it was the hour most propitious to their elliptic interchange of words and silences.
13.An elderly gentleman was looking out of his window in a village street in the summer of 1781 when he saw two ladies go into a draper's shop opposite.
14.Mr. Hopkins, the meek-mannered draper opposite, was the first to act on this inward vision, being the more ambitious of a little masculine talk because his customers were chiefly women.
15.Well, it was young Leonards, old Leonards the draper's son, as great a scamp as ever lived — who plagued his father almost to death, and then ran off to sea.
16." Thank heaven" ! said the draper in conclusion, " if the father drinks and runs after women, the son at all events has learnt the value of money here" .
17.There was Geary Ball going to the " Royal Oak" to drink his dram--that happened as regularly as Cowper brushed his teeth; but behold--two ladies were going into the draper's shop opposite.
18.Mr. Bambridge was rather curt to the draper, feeling that Hopkins was of course glad to talk to him, but that he was not going to waste much of his talk on Hopkins.
19.That evening, in their room, when Madame Baudu questioned her husband as to the result of the conversation, the draper had regained his obstinate resolve to fight on in person to the bitter end.
20.We went into a small country town, where living was cheaper than in Milton, and where I got employment in a draper's shop (a capital place, by the way, for obtaining a knowledge of goods).