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Sawley advanced, and wrung me by the hand with so piteous an expression of visage that I could not help thinking some awful catastrophe had just befallen his family. "You are welcome, Mr. Dunshunner welcome to my humble tabernacle. Let me present you to Mrs. Sawley" and a lady, who seemed to have bathed in the Yellow Sea, rose from her seat, and favoured me with a profound curtsey.
She is as good as engaged to Lord Dunshunner, and I do not intend that you shall make a mess of her affairs here as you did in California." It was the first time he had heard of Lord Dunshunner's proposals; it was the first allusion she had ever made to Louise and Mainwaring.
Dunshunner I'm one, and you've done it!" "Mr. Sawley! Are you in your senses?" "That depends on circumstances. Haven't you been buying stock lately?" "I am glad to say I have two thousand Glenmutchkins, I think, and this is the day of delivery." "Well, then, can't you see how the matter stands? It was I who sold them!" "Well!" "Mother of Moses, sir! Don't you see I'm ruined?"
We therefore kept him steadily at work out of Glasgow, upon a very liberal allowance, to which, apparently, he did not object. "Dunshunner," said M'Corkindale to me one day, "I suspect that there is something going on about our railway more than we are aware of. Have you observed that the shares are preternaturally high just now?" "So much the better. Let's sell."
In default of language, I looked Miss Sawley straight in the face, and attempted a substitute for a sigh. I was rewarded with a tender glance. "Ah," said she, "I see you are a congenial spirit! How delightful, and yet how rare, it is to meet with any one who thinks in unison with yourself! Do you ever walk in the Necropolis, Mr. Dunshunner? It is my favourite haunt of a morning.
Lord Dunshunner joined me in Edinburgh. D -it, instead of doing anything there, we were done! The veriest urchin that ever crept through the High Street is more than a match for the most scientific of Englishmen. With us it is art; with the Scotch it is nature. They pick your pockets without using their fingers for it; and they prevent reprisal by having nothing for you to pick.
Mr Dunshunner! you have been a great stranger at Lykewake Terrace!" "Take a muffin, Mr Sawley. Anything new in the railway world?" "Ah, my dear sir my good Mr Augustus Reginald I wanted to have some serious conversation with you on that very point. I am afraid there is something far wrong indeed in the present state of our stock."
"Did you ever see a ruined man with a large family? Look at me, Mr Dunshunner I'm one, and you've done it!" "Mr Sawley! are you in your senses?" "That depends on circumstances. Haven't you been buying stock lately?" "I am glad to say I have two thousand Glenmutchkins, I think, and this is the day of delivery." "Well, then can't you see how the matter stands? It was I who sold them!" "Well!"
Whilst engaged in this charitable work, the door flew open, and M'Corkindale, looking utterly haggard with excitement, rushed in. "You may buy an estate whenever you please, Dunshunner," cried he, "the world's gone perfectly mad!
I think upon the whole, Dunshunner, though it's letting them go dog-cheap, that we ought to sell half our shares at the present premium, while there is a certainty of getting it." "Why not sell the whole? I'm sure I have no objections to part with every stiver of the scrip on such terms."
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