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She went there straight from Lord Ormont's house-agent and upholsterer, to have a queer bit of thunderous news confirmed, that her brother was down at Steignton, refurnishing the house, and not for letting.
There entered a little, smirking, neat-dressed man, prim as a lawyer or a house-agent. "Ah, Glosson, is that you?" said Saville, with something like animation: "sit down, my good sir, sit down. Well! well! "Why, Mr. Saville, I think we may get the land from old . He has the right of the job. I have been with him all this morning. He asks six thousand pounds for it. "The unconscionable dog!
It ended in our appealing to a house-agent at St. Germain. His estimate appeared to me to be quite reasonable. But it exceeded the pecuniary limit mentioned by Mrs. Eyrecourt. I had known the Villerays long enough to be in no danger of offending them by proposing a secret arrangement which permitted me to pay the difference. So that difficulty was got over in due course of time.
"My dear, the way ladies and gentlemen get a house in the first place, you don't go about yourself like that, and you never go to the people themselves, or you are sure to be taken in, but to a respectable house-agent." "Yes, dear, that must be the best way, one would think."
"I assure you," he affirmed, "that she made that very practical gesture. How else could they have got hold of it? The cause is not rich. And, moreover, there would have been difficulties with any ordinary house-agent, who would have wanted references and so on.
The shadows of night wrapped him round, and little things in the hedgerows chirped and chittered mockery at him as he stumbled down the lane. George's request for a lonely furnished cottage somewhere in the neighbourhood of the castle did not, as he had feared, strike the Belpher house-agent as the demand of a lunatic.
We next came across old Shuffler, the house-agent, waddling along, with his sound eye rolling buoyantly on its axis, while the artificial orb glared steadily forward in a fixed, glassy stare. "Bootiful weether!" said he, cordially, to me, touching his hat "bootiful weether, sir!" "It is a fine day," I responded. "A merry Christmas to you, Mr Shuffler."
There entered a little, smirking, neat-dressed man, prim as a lawyer or a house-agent. "Ah, Glosson, is that you?" said Saville, with something like animation: "sit down, my good sir, sit down. Well! well! "Why, Mr. Saville, I think we may get the land from old . He has the right of the job. I have been with him all this morning. He asks six thousand pounds for it. "The unconscionable dog!
Early in the afternoon he was back in Chelsea, making fraudulent representations to the house-agent near the Vestry Hall. "Not more than ninety," repeated that gentleman, as he went through his book, and read out particulars of several houses at about that rental; but the house which Langholm burned to see over was not among the number.
He had started in business as a house-agent, and the family of three lived from hand to mouth on the profits that escaped the publican. Not that Dad was idle. He was for ever busy; but it was the busyness of a fly.
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