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At the end of a long discourse, full of those "sickening details" in which women of her class delight, she summed up her case with a brief but telling epitome of his career, to the effect that he never smoked, nor drank, nor swore, but that he "only gave one sniff and died;" and I, determined to escape from the inevitable sequel, when Wattles senior's vices would be declaimed in contrast to the son's virtues, beat a hasty retreat.
It was at this period only a few months previous to the opening of the present narrative that the district had first heard aught of the womenfolk of the Fleckrings. An aunt Reuben, senior's, sister, it appeared had died several years earlier, since when Rachel had alone kept house for her brother and her father.
Punctually at nine o'clock on the following morning, Alfred Burton, after a night spent in a very unsatisfactory lodging-house, hung up his gray Homburg on the peg consecrated to the support of his discarded silk hat, and prepared to plunge into his work. The office-boy, who had been stricken dumb at his senior's appearance, recovered himself at last sufficiently for speech.
The hand of the clock moves slowly, and the half-heard talk and jests of the junior clerks one of whom you suspect of making a pen-and-ink sketch of you mingle with the ceaseless scrape of the senior's pen, and the low buzz of two black flies that circle for ever round and round just beneath the grimy ceiling.
As I learned some time after, one of our older clerks, perhaps with a little malice of self-comfort at the fall of his senior's principles, had, on coming home, told her laughingly all the story of the morning. Perhaps one should be a woman and a Friend to enter into her feelings.
He recalled to himself all the stories of Curés' servants who shared their masters' bed. Stories told in a whisper at certain general repasts, when the priests of the district met together at the senior's house to observe the feast of some saint or other the great Saint Priapus perhaps and where lively talk and sprightly stories ran merrily round the table.
"Just what I say: deprived of my privileges for cutting chapel." "It's a shame!" said Georgie, indignantly. "That Self-Government Committee is going a little too far when it takes a senior's privileges away without even hearing her case." She grasped Patty by the arm and started toward the door. "Come on and tell Cathy Fair about it. She will fix it all right."
Malthus expresses a hope that Paley had modified his views upon population, and refers to a passage in the Natural Theology. Political Economy , p. 214. Ibid. ii. The phrases quoted are toned down in later editions. Ibid. Senior's Three Lectures, p. 86. Senior's Three Lectures, p. 60. Smith's Works , i. 295.
Much obliged to him. 'Yes, said Andrew, who was gladly watching Old Tom's change of mood with a quiescent aspect. 'Um! must keep it quiet from his poor old mother. Andrew again affirmatived his senior's remarks. That his treatment of Old Tom was sound, he presently had proof of.
Between times he passed hours at the mast-head in expiation of faults which he had committed or ought to have committed, to afford a just scapegoat for his senior's wrath. As Marryat said, it made little difference: if he did not think of something he had not been told, he was asked what his head was for; if he did something off his own bat, the question arose what business he had to think.
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