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"You can't expect his understrappers to quarrel with their bread and butter." "No; that has been the stone of stumbling precisely, but we've got around it. In this blessed case, Shelby himself did the quarrelling, and thereby delivered himself into our hands." Bernard Graves sat up. "What have you found out?"
My mother remembered well, too, the dismal Saturdays when, after prolonged periods of non-payment of their salaries, the poorer members of the company, and all the unfortunate work-people, carpenters, painters, scene-shifters, understrappers of all sorts, and plebs in general of the great dramatic concern, thronging the passages and staircases, would assail Sheridan on his way to the treasury with pitiful invocations: "For God's sake, Mr.
"Well, good-by, Tom," said I. "Give my regards to your brother when he lands, and tell him his going away was a mistake. A man can't afford to trust his important business to understrappers." This with a face free from any suggestion of intending a shot at him.
Have the goodness, then, to let one of your understrappers correct the spelling and the grammar of my papers; and you can give him a few shillings in my name for his trouble. Begging you to accept the assurance of my high consideration, I am, sir, Your obedient servant, P.S. By the way, I have said in my letter that I found ALL literary persons vulgar and dull.
"In examining the beginning of the Spectators, &c., I find they are all written by a society. Now I profess to write all myself, though I acknowledge that, on account of a weakness in my eyes, I have got some understrappers who are to write the poetry, &c.... In order to find the different merits of these my subalterns, I stipulated with them that they should let me feed them as I would.
There was good reason for the aides-de-camp an "understrappers," as Elmendorf referred to them, being even more mysterious than usual. There was a month or more during the late winter in which Mr. Elmendorf, cold-shouldered out of official society at department head-quarters, became quite the managing director of the Allison mansion.
At length eleven o'clock arrived, and found Val, Phil, our old friend Darby, who had not yet entered upon the duties of his office, together with one or two other understrappers, all ready for business. The two principal characters were surrounded by books, rentals, receipts, and every other document necessary and usual upon such occasions.
Yet I will say this much for myself: I still would not have taken her on any terms that did not make her really mine. Now that Updegraff is dead, I am free to tell of our relations. My acquaintance with him was more casual than with any other of "The Seven." From the outset of my career I made it a rule never to deal with understrappers, always to get in touch with the man who had the final say.
"I ain't seen 'im since yer took 'im away YOU. I ain't one of your understrappers. Ez I wuz follerin' yer some one knocked me down from behind and nigh onto killed me. I jes gittin' my senses back." Although so enraged, Whately knew that as a soldier he must curb his passion, report the facts immediately and see what could be done.
Another projected a variety of plans for new dictionaries, which were executed under his eye by day-labourers; and the province of a third was history and voyages, collected or abridged by understrappers of the same class. Mr.
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