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Set down by the omnibus at the corner of Saint Mary Axe, and trusting to her feet and her crutch-stick within its precincts, the dolls' dressmaker proceeded to the place of business of Pubsey and Co. All there was sunny and quiet externally, and shady and quiet internally.
But whatever you do, Lammle, don't don't don't, I beg of you ever fall into the hands of Pubsey and Co. in the next room, for they are grinders. Regular flayers and grinders, my dear Lammle, repeated Fledgeby with a peculiar relish, 'and they'll skin you by the inch, from the nape of your neck to the sole of your foot, and grind every inch of your skin to tooth-powder.
'Now, godmother, she went on, 'I particularly wish to ask you what has taken place here, since I left the wolf here? Because I have an idea about the size of a marble, rolling about in my little noddle. First and foremost, are you Pubsey and Co., or are you either? Upon your solemn word and honour. The old man shook his head. 'Secondly, isn't Fledgeby both Pubsey and Co.?
At nine o'clock on such a morning, the place of business of Pubsey and Co. was not the liveliest object even in Saint Mary Axe which is not a very lively spot with a sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door.
'The name of the Creditor is Riah, said Mr Fledgeby, with a rather uncompromising accent on his noun-substantive. 'Saint Mary Axe. Pubsey and Co. 'Oh yes! exclaimed Mrs Lammle, clasping her hands with a certain gushing wildness. 'Pubsey and Co.! 'The pleading of the feminine Mr Fledgeby began, and there stuck so long for a word to get on with, that Mrs Lammle offered him sweetly, 'Heart?
He was supposedly the head of the firm of Pubsey and Co., at Saint-Mary-Axe, but really only the agent of one Mr. Fledgeby, a miserly young dandy who directed all the aged Jew's transactions, and forced him into sharp, unfair dealings with those whom Mr.
You look out. Keep your weather eye awake and don't make any more acquaintances, however handsome. Of course you always keep my name to yourself? 'Sir, assuredly I do. 'If they ask it, say it's Pubsey, or say it's Co, or say it's anything you like, but what it is.
'Always the same, always the same! said Lammle. 'Mr 'Riah, Pubsey and Co. Saint Mary Axe, Fledgeby put in, as he wiped away the tears that trickled from his eyes, so rare was his enjoyment of his secret joke. 'Mr Riah is bound to observe the invariable forms for such cases made and provided, said Lammle. 'He is only the representative of another! cried Fledgeby.
Coax him to use his influence with the Jew. His name is Riah, of the House of Pubsey and Co. Adding these words under his breath, lest he should be audible in the erect ears of Mr Fledgeby, through two keyholes and the hall, Lammle, making signals of discretion to his servant, went softly up stairs. 'Mr Fledgeby, said Mrs Lammle, giving him a very gracious reception, 'so glad to see you!
Fledgeby, the clever little creature made him by his own words, disclose his system of treachery and trickery, and prove that the aged Jew had been screening his employer at his own expense. Thereupon Miss Jenny lost no time in once again proceeding to the place of business of Pubsey and Co., where she found the old man sitting at his desk.
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