Excerpt from Barbara Gwynne (Life) Jerome S. Mcwade, grocery clerk, dominated the little shop. In and out among his patrons, now after onions, now after starch, he darted with a sure agility. The gaze of a half-dozen women and chil dren followed his trained movements, and like a juggler he kept afloat in the air before him eggs, lemons, cabbages, tins of tomatoes, bars of soap. Tall, robust and pale, he smiled eternally. A pencil was stuck behind his ear, and a white apron, very smooth and taut about the loins, enveloped him from breast to knee. His blue eyes were quick and sharp. His Roman features, the aquiline nose, firm mouth, square chin, gave him a showy comeliness. He needed shaving badly, and he bore himself with a very jaunty air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.