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Updated: May 11, 2025
Belonging to the category were the linen shop of a certain Alexander Pope's father, and the law-stationer's shop, from which issued, in his day, a beautiful youth known as "Master John Milton." There was the customary bustle of a market day at "Robinson's."
How thankless I must have been if it had not recalled the words he said to me when he was so moved by the change in my appearance: "I will accept him as a trust, and it shall be a sacred one!" We now turned into another narrow street. "Mr. Woodcourt," said Mr. Bucket, who had eyed him closely as we came along, "our business takes us to a law-stationer's here, a certain Mr. Snagsby's.
Perhaps, like Dr. Wolcot, he fancied the clinking of the pestle and mortar said "Kill 'em again! kill 'em again." From the attorney's office, he "fell off," as Hamlet's Ghost would say, to a law-stationer's shop, and became "a hackney writer:" the technicality needs not explanation: to hack at anything is neither the road to fame nor a good meal.
"I suppose now," returns that officer, "YOU will he expecting a twenty-pound note or a present of about that figure?" Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can "offer" twenty pence. "My friend the law-stationer's good lady, over there," says Mr. Bucket, luring Mrs. Snagsby forward with the finger. "What may YOUR game be, ma'am?" Mrs.
At the age of fourteen he sat in a grimy room with an old man on one side of him, a copying-press on the other, and a law-stationer's almanac in front, and he earned half a crown a week. But now he, Edward Beechinor, was the old man, and the indispensable lad of fourteen, who had once been himself, was another lad, perhaps thirtieth of the dynasty of office-boys.
Quintus Slide, would have his action at law; in which resolution Mr. Slide did, I fear, encourage him behind the back of his better friend, Phineas Finn. Phineas went with Bunce to Mr. Low's chambers, for Mr. Low had in some way become acquainted with the law-stationer's journeyman, and there some very good advice was given. "Have you asked yourself what is your object, Mr. Bunce?" said Mr. Low.
The law-stationer's establishment is, in Guster's eyes, a temple of plenty and splendour. She believes the little drawing- room upstairs, always kept, as one may say, with its hair in papers and its pinafore on, to be the most elegant apartment in Christendom. The portraits it displays in oil and plenty of it too of Mr. Snagsby looking at Mrs. Snagsby and of Mrs. Snagsby looking at Mr.
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