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Just at this moment Mr. Snape again appeared in the passage, going towards Mr. Oldeschole's room. The pernicious old man! He hated Charley Tudor; and, to tell the truth, there was no love lost between them. Charley, afflicted and out of spirits as he was at the moment, could not resist the opportunity of being impertinent to his old foe: 'I'm afraid you'll make yourself very tired, Mr.
Snape being thus by character and predilection a religious man, and having on various occasions in olden days professed much horror at having his ears wounded by conversation which was either immoral or profane, it had of course become the habitual practice of the navvies to give continual utterance to every description of ribaldry and blasphemy for his especial edification.
Come, what do you say to chops and stout all round? Dick will go over and order it in a minute. 'I wish you wouldn't, Charley, said the navvy who seemed to be most affected, and who, in his present humour, could not endure a joke, As Mr. Snape did not seem to accede to Charley's views, the liberal proposition fell to the ground. 'Care killed a cat, said Scatterall.
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.
"Yes, these be letters," he said, chuckling; "Jack, here, talks o' runnin' a smack down this winter purpose to bring yer mail!" "'Tw'u'd take something bigger'n a smack," observed Mr. Snape, looking askance to see how Noll grasped the precious parcel.
Field; but they took certain steps, under my recommendation; the result of which was that at an early day, an aunt of the Honorable Miss Snape was driven, to save so near a connection from transportation, to sell out some fourteen hundred pounds of stock, and all the forgeries were taken up.
'He's the worst of the whole lot, said Mr. Oldeschole. 'He is very bad, said Snape; 'but I rather think that perhaps, sir, Mr. Tudor is the worst of all. 'Well, I don't know, said the Secretary, muttering sotto voce to the Under-Secretary, while Mr. Snape read the letter 'Tudor, at any rate, is a gentleman. Mr. Snape read the letter, and his face grew very long.
Snape, having carefully brushed his hat and taken down from its accustomed peg the old cotton umbrella, also took his departure; and the fourth navvy, who inhabited the same room, went also. The iron-fingered hand of time struck a quarter past four on the Somerset House clock, and still Charley Tudor lingered at his office.
'All right, said Charley; 'I'll tumble up and be with them in ten seconds; and then collecting together a large bundle of the arrears of the Kennett and Avon lock entries, being just as much as he could carry, he took the disordered papers and placed them on Mr. Snape's desk, exactly over the paper on which he was writing, and immediately under his nose. 'Mr. Tudor Mr. Tudor! said Snape.
'Confound the woman! said Charley to himself; 'what on earth shall I do with her? Mr. Oldeschole's door opened, and out of it came Mr. Oldeschole, and Mr. Snape following him. What means the clerk had used to bring forth the Secretary need not now be inquired. Forth they both came, and passed along the passage, brushing close by Charley and Mrs. Davis; Mr.
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