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Updated: May 12, 2025
Nowadays Mr. Curtenty, commercially secure, spent most of his energy in helping to shape and control the high destinies of the town.
"How many hands do you employ, Mr Clayhanger?" "Fourteen," said Edwin. "Do you?" exclaimed another voice, evidently surprised and impressed. Jos Curtenty pulled at his cigar. "I wish I could make as much money as you make out of fourteen hands!" said he. "Well, I've got two hundred of 'em at my place. And I know 'em! I've known 'em for forty years and more.
On either side of the marble mantelpiece were two easy-chairs of an immense, incredible capacity, chairs of crimson plush for Titans, chairs softer than moss, more pliant than a loving heart, more enveloping than a caress. In one of these chairs, that to the left of the fireplace, Mr. Curtenty was accustomed to snore every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, and almost every evening.
Then Jos Curtenty, very ancient but still a wag, passed by, and said: "Hello, Mr Peel. Truth will out. And yet who'd ha' suspected you o' being secretly married!" Samuel Peel could not take offence, because Jos Curtenty, besides being old and an alderman, and an ex-Mayor, was an important member of his election committee.
Duncalf said that he must really be going, and, having arranged with the Mayor-elect to call a special meeting of the Council at once, he did go, all the while wishing he had the enterprise to stay. Josiah accompanied him to the front-door. The sky had now cleared. 'Thank ye for calling, said the host. 'Oh, that's all right. Good-night, Curtenty. Got that goose out of the canal?
Curtenty had not the least intention of buying those geese, but nothing could be better calculated to straighten the back of a Bursley man than a reference to the mercantile activity of Hanbridge, that Chicago of the Five Towns. 'How much for the lot? he inquired.
Curtenty suggested, throwing a side-glance at Callear the poulterer's close by, which was crammed with everything that flew, swam, or waddled. 'Call this a market? said the gooseherd. 'I'st tak' my lot over to Hanbridge, wheer there is a bit doing, by all accounts. Now, Mr.
Gordon glanced into the eyes of Mrs. Curtenty, and found there his exceeding reward. The mediocrity had blossomed out that evening into something new and strange. Liar, deliberate liar and self-accused gambler as he was, he felt that he had lived during that speech; he felt that it was the supreme moment of his life. 'What a perfectly wonderful man your husband is! said Mrs. Duncalf to Mrs.
But underneath all this was a sub-title, 'Amusing Exploit of the Mayor-elect, followed by an amusing description of the procession of the geese, a description which concluded by referring to Mr. Curtenty as His Worship the Goosedriver. Hanbridge, Knype, Longshaw, and Turnhill laughed heartily, and perhaps a little viciously, at this paragraph, but Bursley was annoyed by it.
In that moment he reflected upon his reputation; he knew that he was a cure, a card, a character; he knew that everyone would think it just like Jos Curtenty, the renowned Deputy-Mayor of Bursley, to stand on the steps of the Tiger and pretend to chaffer with a gooseherd for a flock of geese.
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