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Much obliged, Mr. Miller! For what? for what? You haven't taken anything, Mr. Secretary! The very sight of that quill-driver is like poison and brimstone to me.
"I write plays for her," he replied evasively. "So that we are obliged to see a good deal of each other." "And apparently you don't want to be friends with me." "There can be little in common between a mere quill-driver and a prima donna." She turned on him swiftly. "You seem to forget that at present you are a famous dramatist, while I am merely a musical student."
But let me only lay hands on that infernal quill-driver!
Her desk was locked, and it would not be safe to tamper with it. He had seen enough; the girl received books and notes from this fellow up at the school, this usher, this Yankee quill-driver; he was aspiring to become the lord of the Dudley domain, then, was he? Elsie had been reasonably careful. She had locked up her papers, whatever they might be.
That bland, blundering fool, that glasshouse, that damned supercilious ass: all this and more he cried upon James. He scorned him for his jealousy; he cursed him for it; he vowed that he would carry her off before his very eyes. "Let her give the word, lift an eyebrow, and I take her across the world." And the lad too, bless him. What did the quill-driver want of them but credit?
Jupille trotted before us, carrying his rod in one hand, a luncheon-basket and a fish-bag in the other. He turned round and gave us a look at each cross-road, smiled beneath his heavy moustache, and went on faster than before. I felt sure that something out of the way was about to happen, and that the silent quill-driver was tasting a quiet joke. I had not guessed the whole truth.
Would he not be a much better man if allowed to have Hester! whereas in all probability she would fall to the lot of some quill-driver like her father a man that made a livelihood by drumming his notions into the ears of people that did not care a brass farthing about them! Thus would Vavasor's love-fits work themselves off declining from cold noon to a drizzly mephitic twilight.
And first, as I know she has a fervent wish to see me a quill-driver, I must tell her that I begin, as people are wont to do, to look upon my future profession with great partiality. I no longer see it in so disadvantageous a light.
"I will account for every penny," said Grabman, eagerly, and clasping his hands, while his pale face grew livid. "I do not doubt it, my quill-driver. Look sharp, start to-morrow. Get thyself decent clothes, be sober, cleanly, and respectable. Act as a man who sees before him 5,000 pounds. And now, light me downstairs."
Fortescue, but his picking up this quill-driver, who has spent his life behind a bank-counter, and offering him to the burghs, is really an insult to the constituency. Mr. Fortescue is no orator there is enough of us in the House to speak, Heaven knows there is only too much talk about nothing; but Mr. Fortescue's vote was never given wrong never once did he forsake his colours!
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