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But at present there seemed to be very little hope of extending his trade by this means. He had never been able, since he began shopkeeping, to lay his hand upon a surplus five pounds. The business was slowly, very slowly, improving; but the position of the shop was only second-rate, and rent, and rates, and gas appeared to eat up most of the takings. An old pony, with some years of light work in its legs, had been offered to him for four pounds; but Joshua Coker had been forced to decline the purchase. The alternative of a pony and cart was a hand-barrow, which needed neither stabling, keep, nor attendance; but on the score of offering no violence to the susceptibilities of his wife's relatives, Mr. Coker had, with a struggle, abandoned the barrow scheme. No doubt the barrow would pay for itself in a month; he had carefully worked out that. Still, Louisa was not to be convinced that the departure from her standard of respectability would be anything but a come down.
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