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With reference to your duties, I can set you going; and with reference to your salary, I can pay it. Weekly, said Mr Fips, putting down the wafer-stamp, and looking at John Westlock and Tom Pinch by turns, 'weekly; in this office; at any time between the hours of four and five o'clock in the afternoon. As Mr Fips said this, he made up his face as if he were going to whistle. But he didn't.
Large as thy heart was, dear Tom Pinch, it had no room that day for anything but happiness and sympathy! And there was Fips, old Fips of Austin Friars, present at the dinner, and turning out to be the jolliest old dog that ever did violence to his convivial sentiments by shutting himself up in a dark office. 'Where is he? said Fips, when he came in.
By arrangement with, and by permission of, the publishers, Houghton, Mifflin Co. The Temple is crowded with the ghosts of fiction. Here were the neglected chambers, lumbered with heaps and parcels of books, where Tom Pinch was set to work by Mr. Fips, and where old Martin Chuzzlewit revealed himself in due time and knocked Mr. Pecksniff into a corner. Here Mr.
Tom hastily resolved to try him on another tack. 'I shall soon have finished with the books, he said. 'I hope that will not terminate my engagement, sir, or render me useless? 'Oh dear no! retorted Fips. 'Plenty to do; plen-ty to do! Be careful how you go. It's rather dark.
A short double knock at the door put Tom's menacing looks to flight, and awakened an expression of surprise instead. 'Heyday! said Tom. 'An early hour for visitors! It must be John, I suppose. 'I I don't think it was his knock, Tom, observed his little sister. 'No? said Tom. 'It surely can't be my employer suddenly arrived in town; directed here by Mr Fips; and come for the key of the office.
The lady took a fancy to a nice bunch of small rock, for which I asked her twenty cents. They had cost me just sixteen cents. 'Won't you take three fips? she asked. 'That leaves me too small a profit, madam, I replied.
'The fact is, said Mr Fips, 'that my friend is not, at this present moment, in town. Tom's countenance fell; for he thought this equivalent to telling him that his appearance did not answer; and that Fips must look out for somebody else. 'When do you think he will be in town, sir? he asked. 'I can't say; it's impossible to tell. I really have no idea.
There was Fips, the barrister; heaven knows what he was doing at Paris; and Gortz, the West Indian, who was there on the same business, and Flapper, a medical student, all these three I met one night at Flapper's rooms, where Jack was invited, and a great "spread" was laid in honor of him.
After looking at John Westlock's chambers, and devoting a few spare minutes to the Boar's Head, they issued forth again to the place of meeting. The time agreed upon had not quite come; but Mr Fips was already at the Temple Gate, and expressed his satisfaction at their punctuality.
Mr Fips, of Austin Friars, rather deepened than illumined the obscurity of his position; for on the first occasion of Tom's waiting on him to receive his weekly pay, he said: 'Oh! by the bye, Mr Pinch, you needn't mention it, if you please! Tom thought he was going to tell him a secret; so he said that he wouldn't on any account, and that Mr Fips might entirely depend upon him.
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