"What's this, Henchard," said Alderman Tubber, applying his thumb to the corn-factor like a cheese-taster.

If he has to pay the landlord according to a high average, and to be paid by the corn-factor according to a low one, he is undone.

Having no means to portion off us girls, he gave my sister in marriage to a corn-factor.

When, after a sleepless night on the stove, he betook himself to the corn-factor's house, he found it barred and shuttered.