The Beauty of the Dead And Other Stories (1940)
“At twenty-two she married a man who manufactured mustard.
A few weeks after they were married she began to go about the district with her husband, in a small 10 h.p. van marked Pypper’s Prepared Mustard, trying to establish this commodity on the market. Her husband, a man of inexhaustible and changeable enthusiasm, was convinced that one-half of the world was dying to eat a really decent mustard and that the other half was dying because it did not eat mustard at all. It was quite true that form...er manufacturers of mustard had made fortunes out of what was left on the plate. But here was a mustard you did not leave on the plate. It was a prepared mustard, in the French manner, and it was wonderful. It kept indefinitely in the little brown stone jars of which the 10 h.p. van was always full. At forty James Pypper had been a vacuum cleaner salesman, an agent for fire-extinguishers, a traveller in boiled sweets, a door-to-door salesman of cures and preventives for rheumatism, a partner in a firm of patent corset manufacturers.MoreLess
A few weeks after they were married she began to go about the district with her husband, in a small 10 h.p. van marked Pypper’s Prepared Mustard, trying to establish this commodity on the market. Her husband, a man of inexhaustible and changeable enthusiasm, was convinced that one-half of the world was dying to eat a really decent mustard and that the other half was dying because it did not eat mustard at all. It was quite true that form...er manufacturers of mustard had made fortunes out of what was left on the plate. But here was a mustard you did not leave on the plate. It was a prepared mustard, in the French manner, and it was wonderful. It kept indefinitely in the little brown stone jars of which the 10 h.p. van was always full. At forty James Pypper had been a vacuum cleaner salesman, an agent for fire-extinguishers, a traveller in boiled sweets, a door-to-door salesman of cures and preventives for rheumatism, a partner in a firm of patent corset manufacturers.MoreLess
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