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I am a young man of that easy disposition, that I lie abed till it's absolutely necessary to get up and earn something, and then I lie abed again till I have spent it. It was on an occasion when I had had to turn to with a view to victuals, that I found myself walking along the Waterloo Road, one evening after dark, accompanied by an acquaintance and fellow-lodger in the gas-fitting way of life.
"I merely mean taking up your quarters with him," said Mr. Petulengro; "and I was only about to say a better fellow-lodger you cannot have, or a more instructive, especially if you have a desire to be inoculated with tongues, as he calls them. I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already."
The meeting of these three men, which subsequently resulted in a friendship lasting many years, came about as follows: While eating dinner at Galazatti's one night, Von Barwig found himself at the same table as Fico. Fico bowed to him and he graciously acknowledged his salute, not knowing who the man was, but vaguely remembering his features. Fico then introduced Pinac, his fellow-lodger.
Had that man been watching the Old Grub's door? I turned sharply, but I saw nothing, no sign of a living thing save the lights of a retreating cab. I have spoken casually, in this rambling story of mine, of young Marshall, a fellow-lodger at Miss Minion's. He was the Brummel of the boarding-house.
And then it came over Vivian who this man must be: surely no other than the Dabney House prodigal, spouse of his own fellow-lodger, landlady, and blanchisseuse. Upon that thought he stepped out into the hall, closing the office door behind him upon Sam O'Neill. "Yes, I'm the doctor and you're Mr. Garland, aren't you? Your wife and daughter are friends of mine...." Mr.
"Do you want to borrow some money?" Lauriston pulled out the watch, with more blushes, and pushed it towards her. "That's just it," he answered. "I want to borrow money on that. A friend of mine fellow-lodger Mr. Melky Rubinstein said I could borrow something here. That's a real good watch, you know."
They simply did with a little less of everything with a shrug of the shoulders and a smiling reference to the good times coming après la guerre. And, on occasion, economy was forgotten and we feasted. One of the last days I spent in Madame's house was New Year's Day, 1917. I and my fellow-lodger, another padre, were solemnly invited to a dinner that night. It was a family affair.
A little way in front of him he saw a boy of fourteen, whom he recognized as an errand-boy, and a former fellow-lodger at the Newsboy's Lodging-House. He was about to hurry forward and join John Riley, for this was the boy's name, when his attention was attracted, and his suspicions aroused, by a man who accosted John.
When he woke up, shivering, his watch had stopped, the candle was burning down in the socket, the fire was out, and his fellow-lodger was not to be seen either in the front or the back room. He moved away sleepily to bed, yawning out these words to himself: "I shall see the old boy back again as usual to-morrow morning as soon as I wake."
But very little was forthcoming beyond the fact that Mrs. Prichard's husband was dead. What supported the convict theory was that his widow never referred to any relatives of his or her own. Mrs. Burr, her companion or concomitant or at least fellow-lodger was not uncommunicative, but knew "less than you might expect" about her.
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