As _Tom's_ place, an' please your honour, was easy--and the weather warm--it put him upon thinking seriously of settling himself in the world; and as it fell out about that time, that a _Jew_ who kept a sausage shop in the same street, had the ill luck to die of a strangury, and leave his widow in possession of a rousing trade----_Tom_ thought (as everybody in _Lisbon_ was doing the best he could devise for himself) there could be no harm in offering her his service to carry it on: so without any introduction to the widow, except that of buying a pound of sausages at her shop--_Tom_ set out--counting the matter thus within himself, as he walk'd along; that let the worst come of it that could, he should at least get a pound of sausages for their worth--but, if things went well, he should be set up; inasmuch as he should get not only a pound of sausages--but a wife and--a sausage shop, an' please your honour, into the bargain.

'When Tom began, your honour, to think of settling himself in the world, it happened about that time, that a Jew who kept a sausage shop in the same street, had the ill luck to die, and leave his widow in possession of a roaring trade. - Tom thought there could be no harm in offering her his service to carry it on.
'So without any introduction to the widow, except that of buying a pound of sausages at her shop, Tom set out - reckoning that at the worst, he should at least get a pound of sausages; but, if things went well, he should be set up - getting not only a pound of sausages, but a wife and a sausage shop into the bargain.
