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"Yes," said Copernicus. "Bring me a schooner of light lager." The drawer's busy apron hand stopped at once and its owner leaned hard on the table. "What command gave you, sir?" he said. "Marry a schooner of lager light, forsooth!" Droop repeated. "Cry you mercy, sir," said the drawer, straightening up, "this be the Boar's Head Tavern, sir. What may your worship require by way of food and drink?"
It didn't occur to me to put it away in the drawer the table was fitted with, but my eye was attracted by the good form of the same drawer's brass handles. Two candelabra, with four candles each, lighted up festally the room which had waited so many years for the wandering nephew. The blinds were down.
The depositor can provide his own check book, and have it printed in any color he pleases, with the name of himself and business on the margin. The bank, however, will supply loose bank checks of its own, or it may provide them in book form, with stubs, or a space on which the number, amount and purpose of the check may be noted for the drawer's information.
"I want one with Miss Stephen in it as well as yourself," Walters replied. "It will be something to remind me of our climbs." "Send the boy for the packet," Lucy interposed. "I think the drawer's locked; anyhow I don't want the boy to upset my things," Lawrence objected. "Then I'll go with you," said Walters.
His position was not very much improved when he exchanged the drawer's apron at the 'Bell Inn, Gloucester, for the degrading badge of a servitor at Pembroke College, Oxford.
It didn't occur to me to put it away in the drawer the table was fitted with, but my eye was attracted by the good form of the same drawer's brass handles. Two candelabra with four candles each lighted up festally the room which had waited so many years for the wandering nephew. The blinds were down.
"He was for having me take the lead; but, remembering the story about the Battel of Fontanoy which my dearest George used to tell, I says, 'Monseigneur le Comte, tirez le premier, s'il vous play. So he took his run in his stocken feet, and for the honour of Old Virginia, I had the gratafacation of beating his lordship by more than two feet viz., two feet nine inches me jumping twenty-one feet three inches, by the drawer's measured tape, and his lordship only eighteen six.
Anon comes my wife and Mercer and little Tooker, and having done with me we all to a picture drawer's hard by, Hales carrying me to see some landskipps of a man's doing.
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