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Every night Foxall had to superintend and participate in the licking of about two hundred envelopes and as many stamps. 'Who is it? Henry asked, instantly perturbed and made self-conscious by the doggishness, the waggishness, the rakishness, of Foxall's tone.
'I can't help it. Her admiration was the most precious thing on earth to him at that moment. He had not imagined that he could enjoy anything so much as he enjoyed her admiration. 'I'm going now, Mr. Knight, Foxall sang out from the passage. 'Very well, Foxall, Henry replied, as who should say: 'Foxall, I benevolently permit you to go. They were alone together in the great suite of rooms.
The rules of this office apply just as much to you as to anyone. 'I'm sorry, Henry put in coldly, 'if I've put you to any inconvenience. 'Sorry be d d, sir! exclaimed Sir George. 'Where on earth do you go for your lunch? 'That concerns no one but me, Sir George, was the reply. He would have given a five-pound note to know that Foxall and the entire staff were listening behind the door.
Richard Smallbrook, bailiff of the town, John Shilton, William Colmore, Henry Foxall, William Bogee, Thomas Cooper, Richard Swifte, Thomas Marshall, John Veysy, John King, John Wylles, William Paynton, William Aschrig, Robert Rastall, Thomas Snowden, John Eyliat, William Colmore, jun. AND William Mychell,
'He rang for you just after you went out at a quarter-past twelve. Here Foxall glanced mischievously at the clock. 'He had his lunch sent in, and he's been raving ever since. 'What did you tell him? 'I told him you'd gone to lunch. 'Did he say anything? 'He asked whether you'd gone to Brighton for lunch. Krikey! He nearly sacked me! You know it's his golfing afternoon. 'So it is.
It must be explained that, since Henry did not happen to be an 'admitted' clerk, Foxall and himself, despite the difference in their ages and salaries, were theoretically equals in the social scale of the office. Foxall would say 'sir' to the meanest articled clerk that ever failed five times in his intermediate, but he would have expired on the rack before saying 'sir' to Henry.
He walked straight up to the Louvre, and there lunched to the sound of wild Hungarian music. It was nearly three o'clock when he returned to his seat at Powells. 'The governor's pretty nearly breaking up the happy home, Foxall alarmingly greeted him in the inquiry office. 'Oh! said Henry with a very passable imitation of guilelessness. 'What's amiss?
Foxall, indeed, rather liked Henry, and would do favours for him in matters connected with press-copying, letter-indexing, despatching, and other mysteries of the office-boy's peculiar craft. 'It's a girl, said Foxall, smiling with the omniscience of a man of the world. 'A girl! Somehow Henry had guessed it was a girl. 'What's she like? 'She's a bit of all right, Foxall explained.
And still Henry sat, in the leathern chair at the big table in Sir George's big room, thinking, thinking, thinking, in a vague but golden and roseate manner, about the future. Then the door opened, and Foxall, the emperor of the Powellian office-boys, entered. 'Here's someone to see you, Foxall whispered archly; he economized time by licking envelopes the while.
Robert Philips, Esq; acquired a valuable property in the seventeenth century; now possessed by his descendant, William Theodore Inge, Esquire. A gentleman of the name of Foxall, assured me, that the head of his family resided upon the spot, now No. 101, in Digbeth, about four hundred years ago, in the capacity of a tanner.
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