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The maid who came to sweep the room was thoroughly amazed, and knew that something must be wrong. Just as he was about to move, Mr. Oldeschole came bustling into the room. 'Where is Corkscrew? said he. 'Gone, said Charley. 'And Scatterall? asked Oldeschole. 'Gone, sir, said Charley. 'And Mr. Snape? said the Secretary. 'Oh, he is gone, of course, said Charley, taking his revenge at last.
At four o'clock, he was by no means in his usual hurry to go away, and he sat there drawing patterns on his blotting-paper, and chopping up a stick of sealing-wax with his penknife, in a very disconsolate way. Scatterall went. Corkscrew went. Mr.
'He's a bumptious noisy blackguard too, said Charley; 'he doesn't know how to speak to a gentleman, when he meets one. Scatterall gave a great yawn. 'I suppose you're not going, Charley? said he. 'Oh yes, I am, said Charley, 'in about two hours. 'Two hours! well, good night, old fellow, for I'm off. Three cigars, Mrs.
'I was afraid it was so, said Scatterall, in a melancholy voice. And then, as if by the brilliance of his thought he had suddenly recovered his spirits, he made a little proposition. 'I'll tell you what you might do, Charley. I put my watch up the spout last week. It's a silver turnip, so I only got fifteen shillings; yours is a Cox and Savary, and it's gold.
'Whose name! why Scatterall's, to be sure. Now Scatterall was one of the navvies; and from him Mr. M'Ruen had not yet succeeded in extracting one farthing, though he had his name on a volume of Charley's bills. 'Scatterall I don't like Mr. Scatterall, said Jabesh; 'he is very dissipated, and the most unpunctual young man I ever met you really must get some one else, Mr. Tudor; you really must.
Of the younger clerks, two or three, including the unhappy one, were drafted into other offices; some others received one or more years' pay, and then tore themselves away from the fascinations of London life; among those was Mr. R. Scatterall, who, in after years, will doubtless become a lawgiver in Hong-Kong; for to that colony has he betaken himself.
Davis, but he had received one or two notes both from her and Norah, to which, as long as he had Katie's purse, he was resolute in not replying; messages also had reached him from the landlady through Dick Scatterall, in the last of which he was reminded that there was a trifle due at the bar, and another trifle for money lent.
Charley merely repeated with a little more emphasis the speech which he had just before made. 'Oh, very well, said Scatterall; 'there couldn't have been a fairer bargain; at least it was all on your side; for you would have had the watch to wear, and nearly all the money too. Charley still repeated the same little speech.
On arriving at this elysium, on the night in question, he found Mrs. Davis usefully engaged in darning a stocking, while Scatterall sat opposite with a cigar in his mouth, his hat over his nose, and a glass of gin and water before him. 'I began to think you weren't coming, said Scatterall, 'and I was getting so deuced dull that I was positively thinking of going home.
He had, indeed, gone there once or twice with his friend Scatterall, but had contrived to avoid any confidential intercourse with either the landlady or the barmaid, alleging, as an excuse for his extra-ordinary absence, that his time was wholly occupied by the demands made on it by the editor of the Daily Delight. Mrs.
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