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Among other things, she fancies the coachman has spread it all over Southwick that she has gone wrong with Berkins and that fellow Escott. Just fancy if Berkins a ten thousand a year man should hear of it! I don't know what he would say. He would peg into me; he is at times very hard indeed upon me.
She spoke of his immense fortune, and exaggerated it until she made even Berkins seem a paltry creature in the old man's eyes. Frank was anxious to propitiate Sally. He returned from London with presents for her, and he always spoke to her, looking at her admiringly.
If a man can make a settlement he will naturally demand a that is to say he will naturally look forward, he will consider what her prospects are; not her immediate prospects, that would be mercenary, but her future prospects." Willy smiled. "And what did Berkins say?" "He said he wanted to marry, and he spoke of Grace; he said he admired her.
The train had entered a tunnel, and the speakers made pause, seeing each other vaguely in the dim light, and when they emerged into the cold April twilight Frank told the story of Triss and Berkins, Mr. Brookes struggling with the door, and the girls rushing screaming from their hiding-place; and Frank's imitation of Berkin's pomposity amused Lizzie, and she laughed till she cried.
He has all the method of the best clerk in London; he loves the work, he would do honour to any office, but on his own hook I am afraid he will never do anything but lose his money." "Your money, you mean." "Well, my money if you like. You are very provoking, Berkins. I don't know if you do it with the express purpose of annoying me.
I told him the story about Berkins, and he laughed; I never saw him laugh so before; and when I told him that I had told Berkins, as he was tying up his leg, that so far as the incident with the dog was concerned, I regretted deeply what had occurred, he could not contain himself. He rang the bell, and we had old Triss up. He asked a great deal about you; I leave you to imagine what I said.
They contained all the latest improvements, and all these were fully explained. "Berkins is excelling himself to-day," thought Frank. Presently they came upon a basket of peaches. "These peaches were, of course, grown under glass, but I think I am right in saying, Jackson, that they were produced without artificial heat." "Yes, sir, quite right, sir.
True, there will be other Berkinses, and there will be other gardens, and other girls, but that doesn't make it the least less sad to see this garden pass into bricks and mortar." Two footmen approached Mr. Berkins, and with all solemnity helped him to take off his overcoat.
At last Mr. Brookes said: "I daresay you would like a cigar, Berkins will you come into the billiard-room?" Berkins inclined to this suggestion. Willy, who had not quite finished, remained at table. The girls watched each other, and as soon as the elderly men turned their backs they fled upstairs to their rooms. "Will you try one of these?" said Mr. Brookes, offering a box of choice havannas.
The old gentleman frequently stopped in his walk to point at the glass houses. "My dear Berkins, I wish you would try to get Willy some appointment; he would, I am sure, take anything over two hundred and fifty a year. He would do marvellously well in an office he loves it. I assure you his eyes twinkle when one speaks of how books are kept, or alludes in any way to the routine of office work.
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