Mawmsey, Mr.

Grocer, the chief representative of the retail trader in Middlemarch. "Mr. Mawmsey was not only an overseer ... he was also asthmatic and had an increasing family ... he was an important man; indeed, an exceptional grocer, whose hair was arranged in a flame-like pyramid, and whose retail deference was of the cordial, encouraging kind--jocosely complimentary, and with a certain considerate abstinence from letting out the full force of his mind."

<em>Middlemarch</em>

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