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The mottled tortoise-shell comb in the vender's black hair, and his womanish draperies, give him a feminine aspect. An Indian chitty, or money-lender, stands talking to a brother, supremely unconscious of the eddying throng about. These chitties are fully six feet tall, with closely shaven heads and nude bodies.
If a chitty fails, he is driven out of the caste and becomes a pariah. The caste make up his losses. Dyaks from Borneo idle by. Parsee merchants in their tall, conical hats, Chinese rickshaw runners and cart coolies, Tamil road-menders, Bugis, Achinese, Siamese, Japanese, Madras serving-men, negro firemen, Lascar sailors, throng the little square, the agora of the commercial life of the city.
Miss Pillbody blushed, and cast down her gentle eyes. The sagacious young lawyer, interpreting these signs as a full consent, stole his arm around her waist, and sealed the contract in a way all unknown to Chitty. At last, Matthew Maltboy was engaged. He had, since twenty, been dallying on the edge of a betrothal.
He averred, in May 1754, what Chitty did not, that Elizabeth spoke of the place of her imprisonment as 'a little, square, darkish room, with 'a few old pictures. Here the one old picture of the notes is better evidence, if the notes are evidence, than Nash's memory. But I find that he was harping on 'a few old pictures' as early as March 1753.
His library consisted of Blackstone's Commentaries I saw them in his present library in Monterey Centre only yesterday Chitty on Pleading, the Code of Iowa of 1851, the Session Laws of the state so far as it had any session laws a few thin books bound in yellow and pink boards.
On the other hand, by 1754 the town was divided into two factions, believers and disbelievers in Elizabeth; and Chitty was then a disbeliever. Chitty took but a few notes on January 31, 1753. 'I did not make it so distinct as I could wish, not thinking it could be the subject of so much inquiry, he admitted in 1754. If Elizabeth handed in a paper, Chitty should have produced it in 1754.
Lest any inquisitive hand tear it away, he placed six volumes of Chitty and a bust of Daniel Webster upon the top and tacked two photographs of Mr. Brockelsby upon the front.
Whiteside became the brilliant parliamentary orator and Chief Justice; Tennant a baronet and Governor of Ceylon; and Forster himself the distinguished writer and critic, the friend and biographer of Dickens. It was a remarkable trio certainly. Chitty, the veteran conveyancer, his old master, he never forgot, and was always delighted to have him to dinner, to do him honour in every way.
Chitty, afterwards his colleague on the Bench, was then famous as an athlete; but with athletics my brother had nothing to do. His only amusement of that kind was the solitary sport of fishing. He caught a few roach and dace, and vainly endeavoured to inveigle pike.
If he don't repent, God will damn him as quick as he would damn a Guinea nigger." "He's just that thumping, downright kind of a man," Kelso remarked. "How are you getting on with the books?" "I have Chitty on Contracts strapped to the pommel," said Abe. "I did my stint coming over, but I had to walk and lead the pony." "Every book you read gets a baptism of Democracy," said Kelso.
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