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If he could live on four hundred dollars a year, which he had never yet been able to do, the addition to his salary would not pay his tailor's bill within two years; and what was he to do with boot-maker, landlady, and others? It happened about this time that a clerk in the bank where his old employer was director died. His salary was one thousand dollars.
There isn't a better fellow breathing than Ontario Moggs, in his own way. But he's not company for you, Mr. Newton, of course." Ralph quailed at this. To be told that his own boot-maker wasn't "company" for him, and that by the young lady whom he intended to make his wife! "I don't think he is company for you either Polly," he said. "Why not, Mr. Newton? He's as good as me.
Greenwood's name from the accounts of a boot-maker with whom he has never had any dealings. But why should it not appear if Will sold either his own plays, or those of the noble friend to whom he lent his name and personality to Henslowe? Why not?
Besides, my attention was much distracted by the fear that the sempstress would not send home my dozen of new shirts, and that a vile procrastinating boot-maker would never come with my boots.
He received his boots from Paris, but they were made by a Swiss boot-maker, the same one who provided the foot-gear of Edward of England; he counted his trousers by the dozen, and never wore one pair more than eight or ten times; his linen was given to his valet almost before it was used, his hats all came from London.
Instead of the den with a constantly changing population, which we had expected to find here, it turned out, that there were a great many apartments in the house where people had been living for a long time. One cabinet-maker with his men, and a boot-maker with his journeymen, had lived there for ten years.
At the other end of the little row of houses a boot-maker has established himself in a brick box, with the additional innovation of a first floor; and here he exposes for sale, boots—real Wellington boots—an article which a few years ago, none of the original inhabitants had ever seen or heard of.
He looked at the stranger, a very well dressed gentlemanly man too manlike for a tailor too polished for a horse-dealer; his Wellingtons were brightly polished he was perhaps his boot-maker. "Oh, you wish to see Mr Chatterton?" he said aloud. "Very much," replied the stranger. "I have some business with him that admits of no delay." "An arrest at least," thought the youth.
No such thing. He himself was cheated. He pledged himself to the boot-maker that, to the best of his belief, his father was robbing him, and that he would undoubtedly assert his right to the Tretton property as soon as the breath should be out of his father's body. The truth of what he told the boot-maker he certainly did believe.
Throwing aside a chair so as to bring the Queen within ear-shot, the King declares that his royal neighbour is an old dunce, and that there is not enough money in his treasury to pay the Court boot-maker; the Princess retaliates by saying that the royal mother of the crowned head she is addressing is an old cat, who paints her face and beats her maids-of-honour.
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