Fate and the Apothecary

In a suburb of the city was a man, who was chemist by examination. He was 38 years old and he was unmarried. For some years, he had pondered matrimony, though without fixing his affections on any particular person. It was plain, indeed, that he ought to marry. Every tradesman is made more respectable by wedlock, and a chemist who, in some degree, resembles a medical man, seems especially to stand in need of the matrimonial guarantee. He was very shy and couldn't talk with respectable women. But one day there was an accident, that changed his life... Read the story till the end to know!