"How?"
"In charging these goods."
"No. I told you the price would be ten and a quarter, didn't I?"
"I believe not. I understood the terms to be ten dollars, at six months."
"You offered that, but I positively refused it."
"I am sure I understood you as accepting my offer, and ordered the goods to be sent home under that impression."
"If so, you erred," coolly replied Lladd.
"I can't take them at the price called for in this bill," said Eldon, assuming a positive air, and thinking, by doing so, Lladd would deem it his better policy to let the goods go at ten dollars.
"Then you can send them home," replied the merchant, in a manner that offended Eldon.
"Very well, I will do so, and you may keep your goods," he retorted, betraying, as he spoke, a good deal of warmth.