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Tudor, said Jabesh, by way of a last parting word of counsel; 'and let Mr. Scatterall sign it that is, if it must be Mr. Scatterall; but I wish you would bring your cousin's name. 'Nonsense! 'Well, then, bring it signed but I'll fill it; you young fellows understand nothing of filling in a bill properly.
This was uncivil; for it had evidently been looked on by Scatterall as unsatisfactory. 'Oh, very well, said that gentleman, now in a state of mild anger only I saw that you had a fine new purse, and I thought you'd wish to have something to put in it. Charley again repeated his offensive mandate; but he did it in a spirit of bravado, in order to maintain his reputation.
They could have smoked in their own rooms as well, and have drunk gin and water there, if they had any real predilection for that mixture. Mrs. Davis was neither young nor beautiful, nor more than ordinarily witty. Charley, it is true, had an allurement to entice him thither, but this could not be said of Scatterall, to whom the lovely Norah was never more than decently civil.
Tudor; but pray do be punctual; and so saying he slowly spread the little document before him, across which Scatterall had already scrawled his name, and slowly began to write in the date.
'That's very civil of you, Mr. Scatterall, said the widow. 'Well, you've been sitting there for the last half-hour without saying a word to me; and it is dull. Looking at a woman mending stockings is dull, ain't it, Charley? 'That depends, said Charley, 'partly on whom the woman may be, and partly on whom the man may be. Where's Norah, Mrs. Davis?
You see, you'd get clear let me see how much. And Scatterall went to work with a sheet of foolscap paper, endeavouring to make some estimate of what amount of ready cash Charley might have in his pocket on completion of this delicate little arrangement. 'You be d , said Charley. 'You'll not do it, then? said Dick.
Snape did not see fitting occasion for providing a banquet, they clubbed together, and among them managed to get a spread of beefsteaks and porter. Scatterall, as requested, went across the Strand to order it at the cookshop, while Corkscrew and Charley prepared the tables.
And then taking his leave the infernal navvy hurried off, and reached his office in Somerset House at a quarter past eleven o'clock. As he walked along he bought the bit of stamped paper on which his friend Scatterall was to write his name. When he reached the office he found that a great commotion was going on. Mr.
Snape and Dick Scatterall became quite confidential. 'I knew it was going to happen, said Mr. Snape to him. 'Indeed, Mr. Oldeschole has been consulting us about it for some time; but I must own I did not think it would be so sudden; I must own that. 'If you knew it was coming, said Corkscrew, 'why didn't you tell a chap? 'I was not at liberty, said Mr. Snape, looking very wise.
'We shall all have liberty enough now, said Scatterall; 'I wonder what they'll do with us; eh, Charley? 'I believe they will send the worst of us to Spike Island or Dartmoor prison, said Charley; 'but Mr. Snape, no doubt, has heard and can tell us. 'Oh, come, Charley! It don't do to chaff now, said a young navvy, who was especially down in the mouth.
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