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He too was in livery, but of a grave, genteel sort. "Hello, Dot," said I, accosting him quietly. It bounced all the gravity out of him. He shook my outstretched hand vigorously, and then apologized for doing so, saying he was so glad to see me. "Jorkins, you great ass," cried he to the first servant, "what do you mean by keeping his honour waiting?"
'The fact is but I have an appointment at the Bank, if you'll have the goodness to excuse me. With that he rose in a great hurry, and was going out of the room, when I made bold to say that I feared, then, there was no way of arranging the matter? 'No! said Mr. jorkins, stopping at the door to shake his head. 'Oh, no! I object, you know, which he said very rapidly, and went out.
"But I know my partner, Copperfield. Mr. Jorkins is not a man to respond to a proposition of this peculiar nature. Mr. Jorkins is very difficult to move from the beaten track." The years pass. I have come legally to man's estate. I have attained the dignity of twenty-one. Let me think what I have achieved.
The ladies clung to their caddies and protested; but in vain. Jorkins" whom Dickens has immortalised. This arbitrary conduct on the part of Kekewich and Gorle did not stop at tea and coffee; it was only a beginning, a preliminary step in the military dispensation.
Before we had taken many paces down the street beyond it, the noise of the city seemed to melt, as if by magic, into a softened distance. A few dull courts and narrow ways brought us to the sky-lighted offices of Spenlow and Jorkins; in the vestibule of which temple, accessible to pilgrims without the ceremony of knocking, three or four clerks were at work as copyists.
So I am articled, and later, when my aunt has lost her money, through no fault of her own, but through the rascality of Uriah Heep, and I seek Mr. Spenlow to know if it is possible for my articles to be cancelled, it is, I am assured, Mr. Jorkins who is inexorable. "If it had been my lot to have my hands unfettered, if I had not a partner Mr. Jorkins," says Mr. Spenlow.
I had been in agony to obtain some knowledge of the circumstances in which my Dora would be placed as, in whose guardianship, and so forth and this was something towards it. We began the search at once; Mr. jorkins unlocking the drawers and desks, and we all taking out the papers.
Jorkins would have his bond. The heart and hand of the good angel Spenlow would have been always open, but for the restraining demon Jorkins. As I have grown older, I think I have had experience of some other houses doing business on the principle of Spenlow and Jorkins!
So she continued to flirt secretly with the Honourable Fitzroy while she still led the Ryders and her own father to think that she was interested in Jefferson. "Jorkins," Mr. Bagley was saying to the butler, "Mr. Ryder will occupy the library on his return. See that he is not disturbed." "Yes, sir," replied the butler respectfully. The man turned to go when the secretary called him back.
"Am I to help you or not?" demanded Shirley. "You said you wanted a woman's wit." "Yes," said Ryder, "but still " "Then you had better see him," she said emphatically. Ryder turned to the telephone. "Hello, Jorkins, are you there? Show Judge Stott up here." He laid the receiver down and turned again to Shirley. "That's one thing I don't like about you," he said.
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