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"Pick it up directly, do you hear? and give it to me." Reginald stood and glared first at Mr Durfy, then at the type. Yesterday he would have defiantly told him to pick it up himself, caring little what the cost might be. But things had changed since then. Humiliating as it was to own it, he could not afford to be turned off.
You deserve, my dear Tom, that you should have been uppermost in my thoughts; for here is a note I have just written to you, enclosing a copy of verses to you on your marriage in short, it is an epithalamium." "That's what I told you, sir," said Goggins to Tom. "May the divil burn you and your epithalamium!" said Tom Durfy, stamping round the little room.
Durfy pulled up and found himself confronted by two gentlemen, one about forty and the other a fashionable young man of twenty-five. "How are you, Mr Medlock?" said he to the elder in as familiar a tone as he could assume; "glad to see you, sir. How are you, too, Mr Shanklin, pretty well?" "Pretty fair," said Mr Shanklin. "Come and have a drink, Durfy. You look all in the blues.
Your secretary at Liverpool will hold out long enough for us to get to the moon before we're wanted." "You're right there!" said Mr Medlock, laughing. "I'll go down and look him up to-morrow, and clear up, and then I fancy he'll manage the rest himself; and we can clear out. Ha, ha! capital sherry, this brand. Have some more, Durfy."
I have finished now, and you may take the letter to Mister Durfy." "You may give it to him yourself, sir," replied Goggins, "for here he is." "Indeed!" said the writer, turning round. "What!" exclaimed Tom Durfy, in surprise; "James Reddy!" "Even so," said James, with a sentimental air: "'The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Literature is a bad trade, my dear Tom!
Not only was his man going about with his own name turned inside out, but he had the effrontery to stick up the name of one of his own directors on his door! Samuel knew Mr Medlock whom didn't he know? He had been introduced to him by Durfy, and had supped with him once at the Shades.
And you know the hour, do you?" "Yes, it's a quarter past two," said Reginald. "Is it?" sneered Mr Durfy, in his most offensive way. "Yes, it is," replied the boy, hotly. What did he care for Durfy now?
"That's not exactly it," said Horace. "The fact is, mother, we're neither in the literary not the clerical department. I'm a `printer's devil'!" "Oh, Horace! what do you mean?" said the horrified mother. "Oh, I'm most innocently employed. I run messages; I fetch and carry for a gentleman called Durfy.
He would also have been astonished if he had known that a detective in plain clothes dined every evening at the Shades, near to the table occupied by Mr Durfy and his friends; that the hall-porter of Weaver's Hotel was a representative of the police in disguise, and that representatives of the police had called on business at the Rocket office, had brushed up against Blandford at street- corners, and had even taken the trouble to follow him Samuel Shuckleford here and there in his evening's perambulations.
Tom Durfy had engaged a pretty cottage in the neighbourhood of Clontarf to pass the honeymoon. Tom Loftus knew this, and knew, moreover, that the sitting-room looked out on a small lawn which lay before the house, screened by a hedge from the road, but with a circular sweep leading up to the house, and a gate of ingress and egress at either end of the hedge.
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