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Then he told how he had encountered Podmore and met the railroad president and about Wade's plan for discovering certain facts concerning Podmore and Nickleby.
The mother seemed very anxious to see them; but suddenly the gas was turned up, and the séance declared over a very abrupt finale to a piece of unmitigated humbug, I should say. These extracts sufficiently show the spirit in which I entered upon my investigations and the result of that spirit. I think even Mr Podmore would have considered me thoroughly sound on that first evening.
That nanny-whiskered old galoot was sunk in too many fathoms of water ever to wade ashore. Mr. J. Cuthbert Nickleby, the then genial secretary, had seen to that once for all; in fact, it had been a charred fragment of the document which Mr. Hugh Podmore had used as a card of introduction when he had had his first long and very interesting session with Friend Nickleby.
And her ladyship's butler paid the carriage, and tipped the man who brought the parcel from the coach-office, and charged these items in his account. And her ladyship wrote a long letter of thanks to Madam Liberality's godmother for her kindness in saving her unnecessary expense. The old lady did not go to the bazaar again for some time, but Madam Liberality went there with Podmore.
Podmore never interfered with this drawer. She was content to be despotic among the dresses, and left the old lady to faddle to her heart's content with bits of old lace and ribbon which she herself would not have condescended to wear. The old lady fumbled them over.
While the man was at the telephone Jimmy Stiles knocked on the door to report that he had delivered the satchel safely to its destination. It was an amazed youth who was yanked unceremoniously into the room by the coat-collar while the irate Nickleby blazed forth anew. He took hold of the bookkeeper's shoulders and was shaking the frightened young man in speechless fury when Podmore came in.
Eddy's own magnum opus, Science and Health. As Mr. Podmore drily remarks, "In these holy games each player is at liberty to make words mean what he wants them to mean"; at the same time, these grotesque and arbitrary constructions are not precisely calculated to inspire the confidence of balanced minds. Let us, however, turn at once to the fundamental axioms of Christian Science:
Nickleby stared, his beady eyes narrowed in a frown of thought. Then he slapped the table with his open palm. "By !" he ejaculated. "I'm inclined to fancy the whole thing is a cleverly arranged scare which those fellows have chosen to throw into us in order to protect themselves," went on Mr. Podmore, nodding with satisfaction at his own logic. "You can understand that, surely.
This fool notion of yours coming to me about this money Nickleby's lost if anybody had told me that once that long green was in your possession you'd come away back here " "What do you take me for, Ferguson? a thief?" glared Podmore angrily. "Opportunist is not so harsh a word," soothed the lawyer, thoroughly enjoying the baiting. He frowned with an abrupt change of manner.
He wondered what Podmore knew about her. There was the next move for him to make go and see Podmore and find out. He got to his feet at once and started for the nearest street-car line. He ought to be able to catch Podmore just finishing a late breakfast at the Queen's. "Sorry, sir, but Mr. Podmore checked out last night," the clerk informed him when at last he reached the hotel.
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