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In one of these offices off Covent Garden, under a green-shaded lamp that cast its metallic rays on to the typewriting machine before her, sat one of the young lady clerks in the establishment of Bonsfield & Co., a firm of book-buyers. They carried on a promiscuous trade with America and the Colonies, and managed, by the straining of ends, to meet their expenses and show a small margin of profit.
Accordingly, "It is time," announced this logician, in opening his batteries on Hawthorne, "that the literary world should learn that Churchmen are, in a very large proportion, their readers and book-buyers, and that the tastes and principles of Churchmen have as good a right to be respected as those of Puritans and Socialists."
But many books that book-buyers value I count worthless for all their wide margins and uncut leaves. 'Will you come-and have a look at Sir Giles's library? I ventured to say. 'I never heard of a library at Moldwarp Hall, Sir Giles, said Mr Mellon. 'I am given to understand there is a very valuable one, said Mr Alderforge.
"No, unfortunately, I can't read this book, as I do not understand the letters. But what a wonderfully beautiful book it is! I was just thinking what some of the great London book-buyers Quaritch, for instance would be tempted to give for it. Oh, I am forgetting you have never heard his name, of course; but but what a beautiful book it is!"
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