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"This must be a begging-letter," I thought to myself as I entered the breakfast-room and advanced with it to my mistress. She held up her hand before she opened it as a sign to me that she had some order to give, and that I was not to leave the room till I had received it. Then she broke the seal and began to read the letter.
"Curious," said Miss Halcombe; "I suppose it must be a begging-letter. There," she added, handing the letter back to the lad, "take it to the house, and give it to one of the servants. And now, Mr. Hartright, if you have no objection, let us walk this way." She led me across the lawn, along the same path by which I had followed her on the day after my arrival at Limmeridge.
Field's eye rolls enjoyingly, for this man is a notorious begging-letter writer. Good night, my lads! Good night, Mr. Field, and thank'ee, sir! Clear the street here, half a thousand of you! Cut it, Mrs. Stalker none of that we don't want you! Rogers of the flaming eye, lead on to the tramps' lodging-house! A dream of baleful faces attends to the door. Now, stand back all of you!
The garrison being well provisioned, I remained within the walls; and he raised the siege at midnight with a prodigious alarum on the bell. The Begging-Letter Writer often has an extensive circle of acquaintance. Whole pages of the 'Court Guide' are ready to be references for him. Noblemen and gentlemen write to say there never was such a man for probity and virtue.
So the old minstrels may go seeking their wandering boy! and the begging-letter writers may go hang! The human vultures that prey upon the simple and good-natured may, if middle-aged, continue in their evil ways. But what of the young people of whom there ought to be hope?
Under any rational system, he would have been sent there long ago. I, the writer of this paper, have been, for some time, a chosen receiver of Begging Letters. For fourteen years, my house has been made as regular a Receiving House for such communications as any one of the great branch Post-Offices is for general correspondence. I ought to know something of the Begging-Letter Writer.
Dampier's dedication has nothing of the fulsome flattery and begging-letter style so often the chief characteristic of such compositions, but is the straightforward offer of a humble worker in science of the best of his work to the man best able to appreciate and to make the most of it.
And that no Post- Office Order to any amount, given to a Begging-Letter Writer for the quieting of an uneasy breast, would be presentable on the Last Great Day as anything towards it. The poor never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their depredations.
I informed my octogenarian that I was prosecuting a legal investigation connected with a late inhabitant of that street, and that I had taken the liberty to apply to him, in the hope that he might be able to afford me some information. He looked at me all the time I spoke as if he thought I was going to entreat pecuniary relief and I daresay I have something the air of a begging-letter writer.
This assuming of a whole case against all fact and likelihood, struck me as particularly droll, and was an oddity of which I certainly had had no adequate experience in life until I turned that curious fly-leaf. My old acquaintances the begging-letter writers came out on the fly-leaf, very piously indeed.
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