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Updated: June 22, 2025
There's one thing in this world which a person won't take in pine if he can go walnut; and won't take in walnut if he can go mahogany; and won't take in mahogany if he can go an iron casket with silver door-plate and bronze handles. That's a coffin. And there's one thing in this world which you don't have to worry around after a person to get him to pay for. And that's a coffin.
Who but a child, I should like to know, would have conceived the notion of repairing his fortune by becoming a solicitor at thirty-eight, or, having conceived such a notion, would have selected the outskirts of Poplar as a likely centre in which to put up his door-plate?" "It was considered to be a rising neighbourhood," I reply, a little resentful.
He might be a Mahommedan or a Deevil or a Fire-worshipper, for what I ken." The third brother had his name on a door-plate, no less, in the city of Glasgow, "Mr. Clement Elliott," as long as your arm.
What I mean by studying on speculation, is that aimless learning of things because they may be useful at some time; which is like the conduct of the woman who bought at auction a brass door-plate with the name Thompson on it, thinking it might some day be of service."
A white door-plate was fastened to the door, and on it could be read in black letters: People's Library. People's Library? thought Tonio Kröger, for it seemed to him that neither the people nor literature had any business here. He knocked on the door, heard "Come in," and obeyed. With gloomy curiosity he looked in upon a most unseemly alteration.
Nobody seemed to flourish save the attorney; his clerk's pen was going in the bow- window of his wooden house; his brass door-plate alone was free from salt, and had been polished up that morning.
"It's a straight deal." "Reverend Jeremiah Jones," read the cop from the door-plate with true detective cunning. "Correct," said Cork. "On the dead level, we're goin' to get married." Let the story wreck itself on the spreading rails of the Non Sequitur Limited, if it will; first you must take your seat in the observation car "Raison d'etre" for one moment.
The old lady went to the seaside in despair, and during her absence he completely effaced the name from her brass door-plate, in his attempts to polish it with aqua-fortis. But all this is nothing to his seditious conduct in public life.
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley what a constellation of lordly words! Not a single common-place name among them not a Brown, not a Jones, not a Robinson; they are all names that one would stop and look at on a door-plate. Now, imagine if Pepys had tried to clamber somehow into the enclosure of poetry, what a blot would that word have made upon the list!
"What a lovely creature!" he muttered to himself. "Ah, there is her house, now. By Jove I have it!" He marked it carefully, and passing by saw the name upon the door-plate. Henry Inglis. "A finely sounding name. I heard her friend call her Emily-Emily Inglis. Ah, how dear is the name! If I were but rich, now. But I can adore her image till I become so.
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