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He ought to have sent for Crosbie into his own room. A man, when he wishes to reprimand another, should always have the benefit of his own atmosphere. "I don't want to find any fault," Butterwell began. "I hope you have not any cause," said Crosbie. "No, no; I don't say that I have. But we think at the Board " "Stop, stop, Butterwell.
He then opened the larger official letter, but that had now but little interest for him. He could have made a copy of the contents without seeing them. The Board of Commissioners had had great pleasure in promoting him to the office of secretary, vacated by the promotion of Mr Butterwell to a seat at their own Board; and then the letter was signed by Mr Butterwell himself.
They were genuine tears which filled Crosbie's eyes, as he seized hold of the senior's hands. "Butterwell," he said, "what am I to say to you?" "Nothing at all, nothing at all." "Your kindness makes me feel that I ought not to have come to you." "Oh, nonsense. By-the-by, would you mind telling Thompson to bring those papers to me which I gave him yesterday?
"Tact," Mr Butterwell used to say to himself, as he walked along the paths of his Putney villa. "Tact. Tact. Tact." "Crosbie," he said, as he entered the room cheerily, "I congratulate you with all my heart. I do, indeed. You have got the step early in life, and you deserve it thoroughly; much better than I did when I was appointed to the same office." "Oh, no," said Crosbie, gloomily.
He knew that Butterwell was fairly rich, and he knew also that he was good-natured, with that sort of sleepy good-nature which is not active for philanthropic purposes, but which dislikes to incur the pain of refusing.
"But where should I be if anything happened to him?" And then he remembered that Mrs Butterwell especially disliked Mr Crosbie, disliked him because she knew that he snubbed her husband. "But it's hard to refuse, when one man has known another for more than ten years."
"It's too disgusting to talk of, Butterwell; it is indeed. And when I asked for her money that was settled upon me, it was only two thousand pounds, they made me go to law, and it seems there was no two thousand pounds to settle. If I like, I can have another lawsuit with the sisters, when the mother is dead. Oh, Butterwell, I have made such a fool of myself. I have come to such shipwreck!
"I know, Butterwell, that I've no right to ask for it. I feel that. Of course I should pay you what interest you please." "Money's about seven now," said Butterwell. "I've not the slightest objection to seven per cent.," said Crosbie. "But that's on security," said Butterwell. "You can name your own terms," said Crosbie.
"Boggs," he said to one of the men as he passed by, "just see if Mr Butterwell is in his room," and then, as he expected, Mr Butterwell came to him after the expiration of a few minutes. "Upon my word, that is serious," said Mr Butterwell, looking into the secretary's damaged face. "I don't think I would have come out if I had been you."
He had snubbed Mr Butterwell, and Mr Butterwell, driven to his wits' ends, had tried a fall or two with him. In all these struggles Crosbie had had the best of it, and Butterwell had gone to the wall.
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