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"Why, when you are going to be hanged, you young hypocrite!" says the man. "But that is always the way with Brough's people," continued he. "I had four greys once for him a great bargain, but he would not go to look at them at Tattersall's, nor speak a word of business about them, because it was a Sunday."
We had to pass through the crowd in the rooms, and my heart bled as I saw, amongst a score of others, poor Gates, Brough's porter, who had advanced every shilling to his master, and was now, with ten children, houseless and penniless in his old age.
Brough's behaviour: suffice it, that religion was always on his lips; that he went to church thrice every Sunday, when he had not a party; and if he did not talk religion with us when we were alone, had a great deal to say upon the subject upon occasions, as I found one day when we had a Quaker and Dissenter party to dine, and when his talk was as grave as that of any minister present.
Two large, deep gun-cases, a leathern magazine of shot, and sundry canisters of diamond gunpowder, Brough's, were displayed on a long table under the end window a four-horse whip, and two fly-rods in India-rubber cases, stood in the chimney-corner; while reveling in the luxurious warmth of the piled hearth lay basking on the rug, three exquisitely formed Blenheim spaniels of the large breed short-legged and bony, with ears that almost swept the ground as they stood upright, and coats as soft and lustrous as floss silk.
Lieutenant Thurston was, I believe, of Colonel Brough's regiment, to which, with his chief, he would naturally have been relegated had he lived till our brigade commander's recovery. The aide whose place Thurston took had been killed in battle; Thurston's advent among us was the only change in the personnel of our staff consequent upon the change in commanders.
But, look you, I was not going to put up with any more of Madam Brough's airs, or of his. With me they might act as they thought fit; but I did not choose that my wife should be passed over by them, as she had been in the matter of the visit to Fulham. Brough ended by warning me of Hodge and Smithers.
But at the time I thought I could serve my aunt as well as myself; and you must remember, then, how high our shares were." "Well, sir, having procured this sum of money, you were straightway taken into Mr. Brough's confidence. You were received into his house, and from third clerk speedily became head clerk; in which post you were found at the disappearance of your worthy patron!"
"Sir, you have no right to question me, to be sure; but here are a hundred of our shareholders, and I'm not unwilling to make a clean breast of it," said I, pressing Mary's hand. "I certainly was the head clerk. And why? Because the other gents left the office. I certainly was received into Mr. Brough's house. And why? Because, sir, my aunt had more money to lay out.
Abednego will do your work." "Law, sir! you are very kind," says I. "Well, you shall come down; and I hope you will like my claret. But hark ye! I don't think, my dear fellow, you are quite smart enough quite well enough dressed. Do you understand me?" "I've my blue coat and brass buttons at home, sir." "What! that thing with the waist between your shoulders that you wore at Mrs. Brough's party?"
You beat Brough; you do, by Jove! for he looks like a rogue anybody would swear to him; but you! by Jove, you look the very picture of honesty!" "A deep file," said Aminadab, winking and pointing me out to his friend Mr. Jehoshaphat. "A good one," says Jehoshaphat. "In for three hundred thousand pound," says Aminadab: "Brough's right- hand man, and only three-and-twenty." "Mr.
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