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Shall we have the pleasure of setting you down anywhere, Mr. Titmarsh?" "Noways particular, my Lady," says I. "We have a holiday at our office to-day at least Roundhand gave me and Gus leave; and I shall be very happy, indeed, to take a drive in the Park, if it's no offence." "I'm sure it will give us infinite pleasure," said Lady Jane; though rather in a grave way.
"Oh, no!" says Abednego, who was third clerk, and who was the chap that informed against Swinney; and he began to laugh, as indeed we all did whenever Mr. Brough made anything like a joke: not that they were jokes; only we used to know it by his face. "Oh, by-the-bye, Roundhand," says he, "a word with you on business. Mrs. Brough wants to know why the deuce you never come down to Fulham."
Captain Sparr, sir, paid his shares up; grumbles, though, and says he's no more: fifty shares, two instalments three fifties, sir." "He's always grumbling!" "He says he has not a shilling to bless himself with until our dividend day." "Any more?" Mr. Roundhand went through the book, and made it up nineteen hundred pounds in all.
Poor fellow! we under-clerks all thought it was a fine thing to sit at a desk by oneself, and have 50l. per month, as Roundhand had; but I've a notion that Hoskins and I, blowing duets on the flute together in our second floor in Salisbury Square, were a great deal more at ease than our head and more in harmony, too; though we made sad work of the music, certainly.
I heard Hoskins say, who was leaning over the balcony, and ogling the girls coming home from church. "You and me with our coats off, plenty of cold rum-and-water, Mrs. Roundhand at Margate, and a whole box of Manillas?" "Hush!" said Roundhand, quite eagerly; "Milly will hear."
Roundhand, I know, for one, would have given one of her ears to go; but, as I have said before, nothing would induce Brough to ask her. Roundhand himself, and Gutch, nineteenth clerk, son of the brother of an East Indian director, were the only two of our gents invited, as we knew very well: for they had received their invitations many weeks before, and bragged about them not a little.
This is the fatal condition of his love: apparently a characteristic of amorous dukes. We read them in the signs extended to us. The minds of these august and solitary men have not yet been sounded; they are too distant. Standing upon their lofty pinnacles, they are as legible to the rabble below as a line of cuneiform writing in a page of old copybook roundhand.
This is the fatal condition of his love: apparently a characteristic of amorous dukes. We read them in the signs extended to us. The minds of these august and solitary men have not yet been sounded; they are too distant. Standing upon their lofty pinnacles, they are as legible to the rabble below as a line of cuneiform writing in a page of old copybook roundhand.
Though, to be sure, her coachman might have found out the way. "And oh, Roundhand!" continued our governor, "draw a cheque for seven hundred, will you! Come, don't stare, man; I'm not going to run away! That's right, seven hundred and ninety, say, while you're about it! Our board meets on Saturday, and never fear I'll account for it to them before I drive you down.
Hark ye! the Chancellor of the Exchequer does me the honour to dine with us, and I want you to see him; for the truth is, I have bragged about you to his Lordship as the best actuary in the three kingdoms." Roundhand could not refuse such an invitation as that, though he had told us how Mrs.
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