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Oldeschole is ready to see you. Charley sat down at his desk opposite to his friend Scatterall. 'I hope, Mr. Snape, you had a pleasant meeting at evening prayers yesterday, said he, with a tone of extreme interest. 'You had better mind the lock entries at present, Mr. Tudor; they are greatly in arrear. 'And the evening meetings are docketed up as close as wax, I suppose.
Oldeschole, the Secretary, motioned him to sit down at an office table opposite to himself. Charley did as he was bid, and took from the hands of his future master an old, much-worn quill pen, with which the great man had been signing minutes. 'Now, said the great man, 'just copy the few first sentences of that leading article either one will do, and he pushed over to him a huge newspaper.
For a few days longer they hung about the old office, doing nothing how could men so circumstanced do anything? and waiting for their fate. At last their fate was announced. Mr. Oldeschole retired with his full salary. Secretaries and such- like always retire with full pay, as it is necessary that dignity should be supported. Mr.
Snape had a glimmering idea of the truth. When he read that article, Mr. Oldeschole felt that his days were numbered, and Mr. Snape, when he heard of it, began to calculate for the hundredth time to what highest amount of pension he might be adjudged to be entitled by a liberal-minded Treasury minute. Mr.
Oldeschole, with tears streaming down his cheeks, communicated the tidings to the elder brethren; and how the elder brethren, with palpitating hearts and quivering voices, repeated the tale to the listening juniors, I cannot now describe.
Oldeschole found that he could not stand at all before this young Hercules, seeing that his special stall was considered to be the foulest in the whole range of the Augean stables. He soon saw that the river was to be turned in on him, and that he was to be officially obliterated in the flood.
Oldeschole felt a hearty inward conviction that his office had been of very great use.
But he mustn't keep me long, for I have to meet my grandmother at Islington at two o'clock; and Charley, having hung up his hat, prepared to walk off to the Secretary's room. 'You'll be good enough to wait a few minutes, Mr. Tudor, said Snape. 'Another gentleman is with Mr. Oldeschole at present. You will be good enough to sit down and go on with the Kennett and Avon lock entries, till Mr.
Oldeschole was informed that the Lords of the Treasury had resolved on breaking up the establishment and providing for the duties in another way. As the word duties passed Sir Gregory's lips a slight smile was seen to hover round the mouth of the new commissioner. Mr.
Oldeschole, when he saw that one of the clerks was talking to a woman who apparently was crying, looked very intently on the ground, and passed by with a quick step; Mr. Snape looked as intently at the woman, and passed very slowly. Each acted according to his lights. 'I don't mean gammon at all, Mrs.
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