4 Dec 1809

Parl y Ref m

Influence

'. Dependence how created

5

But if after having bought my pair of shoes at the warehouse, it happens to me to drop in to the same warehouse once more and there to buy another pair of shoes, the master at the same time recognizing me as one who on a former occasion had been his customer, an /a particular/ expectation, how slight so ever, of future custom, of finding in me, who am thus become known to him a future customer in future begins to be raised in his breast: the expectation the hope strengthened, and with it whatsoever degree of dependence it is in the nature of a profit in trade so circumstanced to create.