The best of goods he had, and he sold fair.

I used to help him in those days.

I used to go to London to buy the Spring fashions, and pretty things I'd buy, uncommonly pretty, and the prettiest of all, you may be sure, for little Beatrice.
Ah! you could get a stylish hat in Northbury in those days.

Poor man, he had the custom of all the country round.

There was no shop like Meadowsweet's.