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‘Not you, old chap, but the Weary Roué and the Good Stockbroker, jawing away as if they really thought monogamy was in the majority in this country, and polygamy was something new! Of course one expects it from the G.
Vivian had procured a post as lady-housekeeper to a rich stockbroker in Kensington, who had also a large interest in a West-end theatre. Lorraine read the glowing terms in which her mother described her new home and employer with a deep sense of relief, seeing in the new venture a probable escape for herself from those relentless demands upon her own scanty purse.
Verner spoke to him for a second, and then, just as the train was moving off, he stepped into the same compartment which had just been vacated by the stockbroker and the man in the tweed suit. He vaguely recollects a lady sitting in the opposite corner to his own, with her face turned away from him, apparently asleep, but he paid no special attention to her.
His son was still staring out of the window. The little stockbroker, seated on the sofa beside his large wife, made a deprecating movement of his eyebrows, as though entreating not to be asked. Austin's cold glance roved to Dr. Ravenshaw. "Doctor," he said, "let me give you a whisky-and-soda." Doctor Ravenshaw shook his head. "I have a patient to visit before dark," he said, "a lady.
"Hurry down there at once," commanded Aunt Richard, who was as staid and practical as the wife of a stockbroker ought to be, "and bring the two poor lambs here in your car. Take the big one. They'll want plenty of room to lay him flat. I'll have the nurse and the doctor here and a room ready. Get there if possible before he does, so as not to move him about too often." Meanwhile Mrs.
'Tell me about it, he said simply. 'Old Barrie Kipson, I began, 'was a stockbroker in the City. He lived in Pegram, and it was his custom to 'COME IN! shouted Kombs, without changing his position, but with a suddenness that startled me. I had heard no knock. 'Excuse me, said my friend, laughing, 'my invitation to enter was a trifle premature.
Why, by playing, in a score of subtle ways, upon the sympathies and antipathies of the audience. For instance, as Sarcey points out, he had made M. de Montaiglin a sailor, "accustomed, during his distant voyages, to long reveries in view of the boundless ocean, whence he had acquired a mystical habit of mind.... Dumas certainly would never have placed this pardon in the mouth of a stockbroker."
"Tell me about it," he said simply. "Old Barrie Kipson," I began, "was a stockbroker in the City. He lived in Pegram, and it was his custom to " "COME IN!" shouted Kombs, without changing his position, but with a suddenness that startled me. I had heard no knock. "Excuse me," said my friend, laughing, "my invitation to enter was a trifle premature.
It was given by a bachelor friend of her husband's, a fabulously rich stockbroker; and it was Lady Laura who had brought the proprietor of the villa to Clarges-street, and who had been instrumental in the getting-up of the fete. "You must really give us some kind of a party at your Henley place this year, Mr. Wooster," she said.
"Why, you are taking the tone of a stockbroker in good luck," said Emile, who overheard him. "Pooh! your riches would be a burden to you as soon as you found that they would spoil your chances of coming out above the rest of us. Hasn't the artist always kept the balance true between the poverty of riches and the riches of poverty? And isn't struggle a necessity to some of us?
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