to market , to market

Useful things, markets.  To buy, to sell, both fat pigs and other things -- to build up your world with the kinds of goods you offer -- to test your powers of description --

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The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

Valancy, living with her mother and her cousin, is a confirmed old maid at the age of twenty-nine, miserable at how she is squelched and belittled by all her family -- including all the extended relatives.  But on her birthday, she gets up her gumption and goes to visit the local doctor about the heart pains she feels.

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