... in your notions and ideas, Planchet; and I was not in the slightest degree surprised to find you had selected grocery as an occupation, which is of all trades the most varied, and the very pleasantest, ... two, sometimes three, and sometimes four days at a time. " "Have you ever given it a thought, why I was absent?" "To look after your debts, I suppose." " ;And when ... "In any particular way?" "Periodically." "That's the very thing. You have noticed it, then?" "My dear Planchet, you must understand that when people...