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Updated: June 11, 2025
We need hardly say that Charley made a night of it in a very different manner from that to which he and his brother navvies were so well accustomed. The next morning, at ten o'clock, the court was again crowded. The judge was again on his bench, prepared for patient endurance; and Lord Killtime and Sir Gregory Hardlines were alongside of him.
'Perhaps Fidus only meant that as it is one of those offices where the people have something to do, the commissioners couldn't be in their offices and in Parliament at the same time. 'I did understand, said Ugolina, 'that Sir Gregory Hardlines had put his veto upon it; but I must confess that it is a subject which I have not sufficiently studied to enable me
And so he went home and got into bed. On that same day, the day that was to witness Charley's betrothal to Miss Geraghty, and that of M. Jaquetanape with Miss Golightly, Alaric Tudor had an appointment with Sir Gregory Hardlines at the new office of the Civil Service Examination Board.
'We are getting a bad name, whether we deserve it or not, said Mr. Oldeschole. 'That fellow Hardlines has put us into his blue- book, and now there's an article in the Times! Just at this moment, a messenger brought in to Mr. Snape the unfortunate letter of which we have given a copy. 'What's that? said Mr. Oldeschole. 'A note from Mr. Corkscrew, sir, said Snape.
On the next morning the two young men returned to town, and the customary dullness of the week began. Great changes had been going on at the Weights and Measures; or rather it might be more proper to say that great changes were now in progress. From that moment in which it had been hinted to Mr. Hardlines that he must relax the rigour of his examinations, he had pondered deeply over the matter.
Oldeschole, of the Navigation, and at first they rejoiced greatly that Job's wish had been accomplished on their behalf, and that their enemy had written a book. They were down on Mr. Hardlines with reviews, counter pamphlets, official statements, and indignant contradiction; but Mr.
Gentlemen walked in and out from each other's rooms, asking this momentous question Who was to fill the chair which had so long been honoured by the great Hardlines? Who was to be thought worthy to wear that divine mantle? But even this was not the question of the greatest moment which at that period disturbed the peace of the office.
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