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Updated: May 25, 2025
The Prague dignitary purpled. "You call your sister's husband a sweep!" "Forgive me. I should have said 'gas-fitter." "And who are you?" shrieked Friedland; "you gaol-bird!" "The honor of going to gaol for truth and justice will never be yours, my dear brother-in-law."
For example, there was one Thomas Blinton. He was a man who wickedly adorned his volumes with morocco bindings, while his wife 'sighed in vain for some old point d'Alençon lace. He was a man who was capable of bidding fifteen pounds for a Foppens edition of the essays of Montaigne, though fifteen pounds happened to be 'exactly the amount which he owed his plumber and gas-fitter, a worthy man with a large family. From this fictitious Thomas Blinton all the way back to Richard Heber, who was very real, and who piled up books as other men heap together vulgar riches, book-collectors have been a picturesque folk.
So Tom took his goods out himself, and sought employers for Bert who did not know of this strain of poetry in his nature. And Bert touched the fringe of a number of trades in succession draper's porter, chemist's boy, doctor's page, junior assistant gas-fitter, envelope addresser, milk-cart assistant, golf caddie, and at last helper in a bicycle shop.
"Well, I guess I'll get the doctor to come round again," Ann Eliza said, trying for the matter-of-course tone in which one might speak of sending for the plumber or the gas-fitter. "It ain't any use sending for the doctor and who's going to pay him?" "I am," answered the elder sister. "Here's your tea, and a mite of toast. Don't that tempt you?"
Flaxman looked curiously at the speaker. He was a young man, a gas-fitter to judge by the contents of the basket he seemed to have brought in with him on his way from work with eyes like live birds, and small emaciated features. During the story Flaxman had noticed the man's thin begrimed hand, as it rested on the bench in front of him, trembling with excitement.
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