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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Not when a thing is to be done, but after it is done. You brave the substance, and tremble at the shadow. I dare say you see ugly goblins in the dark, Grabman?" "Ay, ay; but it is no use talking to you. You call yourself Jason because of your yellow hair, or your love for the golden fleece; but your old comrades call you 'Rattlesnake, and you have its blood, as its venom."
Downstairs again tottered Grabman, re-opened his letter, and wrote, "P.S. I have wronged you, Jason, by my suspicions; never mind, jubilate! This interloper who made me so jealous, who think you it is? Why, young Ardworth himself, that is, the lad who goes by such name. Now, is it not clear? Of course no one else has such interest in learning his birth as the lost child himself, here he is!
"The world is a farm that thrives with all who till it properly, Grabman," answered Jason, dryly; and with his handkerchief he carefully dusted the chair, on which he then daintily deposited his person. "But who is your Ganymede, your valet, your gentleman-usher?"
Grabman, in the mean while, dressed himself with more care than usual, shaved his beard from a four days' crop, and while seated at his breakfast, read attentively over the notes which Varney had left to him, pausing at times to make his own pencil memoranda.
Not Heaven forbid! that we make thee, foul Nicholas Grabman, a type for all the class called attorneys-at-law! Noble hearts, liberal minds, are there amongst that brotherhood, we know and have experienced; but a type art thou of those whom want and error and need have proved alas! too well the lawyers of the poor.
"'Fore Gad, open the case," cried Grabman, eagerly, and shoving aside the ignoble relics of his supper, he leaned his elbows on the table and his chin on his damp palms, while eyes that positively brightened into an expression of greedy and relentless intelligence were fixed upon his visitor. "The case runs thus," said Jason.
That Mr. Grabman slept calmly that night is probable enough, for his gin-bottle was empty the next morning; and it was with eyes more than usually heavy that he dozily followed the movements of Beck, who, according to custom, opened the shutters of the little den adjoining his sitting-room, brushed his clothes, made his fire, set on the kettle to boil, and laid his breakfast things, preparatory to his own departure to the duties of the day.
"And share the pec, I suppose?" said Grabman, dryly, buttoning up his pockets. "Whatever fee you may expect you will have, anyhow, whether I assist you or not. I expect no fee, for mine is a personal interest, which I serve gratuitously; but I can undertake to promise you, on my own part, more than the ordinary professional reward for your co-operation."
May I first ask since open questioning seems the order of the day whether I have the honour to address a brother practitioner, one of the law, sir, one of the law?" "I am one of the law." Mr. Grabman bowed and scowled. "And may I make bold to ask the name of your client?" "Certainly you may ask. Every man has a right to ask what he pleases, in a civil way." "But you'll not answer? Deep!
With the candle in his hand, Grabman stole down the rugged steps even more timorously than Beck had ascended them, and put his finger to his mouth as they came in the dread vicinity of No. 7.
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