[See the latest corrected and updated text and html PG Editions of the complete 5 volume set at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9755/9755.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9755/pg9755-images.html] Mr. Roger Morton was behind his counter one drizzling, melancholy day. Mr. Roger Morton, alderman, and twice mayor of his native town, was a thriving man. He had grown portly and corpulent. The nightly potations of brandy and water, continued year after year with mechanical perseverance, had deepened the roses on his cheek. Mr. Roger Morton was never intoxicated--he "only made himself comfortable." His constitution was strong; but, somehow or other, his dig…
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