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Updated: June 12, 2025
Standing in a central and open place it was not difficult to discover, a well-burnished brass doorplate bearing their names prominently. He hesitated to enter without further knowledge, and ultimately took lodgings over a toyshop opposite, securing a sitting-room which faced a similar drawing or sitting-room at the Franklands', where the dancing lessons were given.
His eye then fell on a little marble slab under a tree in a shady corner of the orchard. "That's a country doorplate," he thought; "yes, it's got the lady's name, 'Martha Cummins, printed on it. Now I'll know what to call her." He crept softly on to the front side of the house. There were flower beds, a lovable white cat snoozing on the doorsteps, and a lady sitting at the open window knitting!
After seeing that doorplate, you will hardly need to hear his nasal intonation to know that he came from the land of the tutelary codfish. That was nearly half a century ago and ever since he has been the child of the mines, the forests, and the mountains.
Chicksey and Stobbles, his former masters, had both become absorbed in Veneering, once their traveller or commission agent: who had signalized his accession to supreme power by bringing into the business a quantity of plate-glass window and French-polished mahogany partition, and a gleaming and enormous doorplate.
What is yonder undetected villain's marble mansion with a doorplate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish? What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from the poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish? What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish?
But if there had been anybody to watch him closely as there was not on that thronged street that body would have seen that Bog's cheeks began to blush, and his eyes to be cast down, and his whistle to be fainter, as he hurried by the neat three-story brick building with the polished doorplate and handsome curtains.
The elevator-man bowed and flung the doors open, with a smile; the pharmacy clerk, the doorkeeper, even the convalescent patient who was polishing the great brass doorplate, tendered their tribute. Dr. Ed looked neither to right nor left. At the machine they separated. But Dr. Ed stood for a moment with his hand on the car. "Why?"
"Now, there's one thing more I want you to tell me," said she, after she had possessed herself of Timothy's unhappy past, uncertain present, and still more dubious future; "and that is, what made you ask for Miss Marthy Cummins when you come to the door?" "Why, I thought it was the lady-of-the-house's name," said Timothy; "I saw it on her doorplate."
He cast an eye around the uniquely decorated walls, upon which hung, here, the shrieking prospectus of a mythical gold-mine; there a small but venomous political placard, and on all sides examples of the uncouth or unusual in paid print; exploitations of grotesque quackeries; appeals, business-like, absurd, or even passionate, in the form of "Wants;" threats thinly disguised as "Personals;" dim suggestions of crime, of fraud, of hope, of tragedy, of mania, all decorated with the stars of "paid matter" or designated by the Adv. sign, and each representing some case brought to A. Jones, Ad-Visor to quote his hybrid and expressive doorplate by some one of his numerous and incongruous clients.
The brass doorplate of No. 7 "Copenhagen Academy for the Sons of Gentlemen. Principal, the Rev. Stimcoe credit, as Miss Plinlimmon remarked before ringing the bell. Mrs. Stimcoe herself opened the door to us, in a full lace cap and a maroon-coloured gown of state. She was a gaunt, hard-eyed woman, tall as a grenadier, remarkable for a long upper lip decorated with two moles.
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