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Yet there was many a Harton boy who would have said, "Utinam in tali amicitia tertius ascriberer!" for each friend communicated to the other something at least of his own excellences.
Indeed, people were beginning to chatter on the sidewalks, and at the doors of the shops. And as Mr. Tertius turned away in the direction of Portman Square, he heard one excited bystander express a candid opinion. "Suicide?" exclaimed this man, thrusting his paper into the hands of a companion. "Not much! Catch old Jacob Herapath at that game he was a deuced deal too fond of life and money!
How much surprised he would have been if, as he leaned forward to Tertius hurrying to end his task and said, 'Send my love too, anybody had told him that that one act of his would last as long as the world, and his name be known for ever!
"Everybody's reading it out there in the streets," he said. "It's extraordinary, now, how these affairs seem to fascinate people. Yes it's all there. That is, of course, as far as it's gone." "How did the paper people come to know all this?" asked Peggie, glancing rapidly over Triffitt's leaded lines. "I suppose they got it from the police," replied Mr. Tertius.
He stood at the door while those he had invited inside passed into the room where Peggie still sat. And as he stood there, and Selwood wound up the little procession, Mr. Tertius rose and also made as if to join the others. Barthorpe stopped him by intruding himself between him and the door. "This is a private inquiry of my own, Mr. Tertius," he said, with a meaning look.
But Tertius Marrineal and his business manager, a shrewd and practical gentleman named Haring, had done a vast deal of expert figuring, as a result of which the owner strolled into his editor's office one noon with his casual air of having nothing else to do, and pleasantly inquired: "Busy?" "If I weren't, I wouldn't be worth much," returned Banneker, in a cheerful tone.
Certainly any one remembering the fact might think that Mrs. Vincy had the air of a very handsome good-humored landlady, accustomed to the most capricious orders of gentlemen. "I thought it was odd his name was Tertius," said the bright-faced matron, "but of course it's a name in the family. But now, tell us exactly what sort of man he is."
Halfpenny!" exclaimed Peggie, almost joyfully. "How good of you to come!" "We had only just spoken were only just speaking of you," remarked Mr. Tertius. "In fact yes, Mr. Selwood and I were thinking of going round to your offices to see if you were in town."
"Don't interrupt, Tertius. It was about forty miles beyond Mac's before I found him; and my men pointed out gently, but firmly, that the country was risin'. What kind o' country, Beetle? Well, I'm no word-painter, thank goodness, but you might call it a hellish country! When we weren't up to our necks in snow, we were rolling down the khud. 'Old, old story! We all legged it in search of Stalky.
I rejoice therefore on your account: but I wish you to be wise indeed unto good, but harmless respecting evil. Now the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. There salute you Timothy, my fellow-labourer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen. I Tertius, who have written this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
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