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"Well, what can I do for you, some little favour, eh? Snug sinecure for a favourite clerk, or a place in the Stamp-Office for your fat footman John, I think you call him? You know, my dear Douce, you may command me." "Oh, indeed, you are all good-good-goodness but but " Vargrave threw himself back, and shutting his eyes and pursing up his mouth, resolutely suffered Mr.
Bob as No. 1, smut-color, and the crew as Nos. 1, 2, 3, etc., tar-color. The officer now called upon an assistant to come forth with a sort of knitting-needle heated red-hot, in order to affix the official stamp to each in succession. Luckily for us all, Noah happened to be the first to whom the agent of the stamp-office applied, to uncase and to prepare for the operation.
I once had a swelled face for six weeks, my lord, from riding in a hackney coach I think it was a hackney coach, said Mrs Nickleby reflecting, 'though I'm not quite certain whether it wasn't a chariot; at all events I know it was a dark green, with a very long number, beginning with a nought and ending with a nine no, beginning with a nine, and ending with a nought, that was it, and of course the stamp-office people would know at once whether it was a coach or a chariot if any inquiries were made there however that was, there it was with a broken window and there was I for six weeks with a swelled face I think that was the very same hackney coach, that we found out afterwards, had the top open all the time, and we should never even have known it, if they hadn't charged us a shilling an hour extra for having it open, which it seems is the law, or was then, and a most shameful law it appears to be I don't understand the subject, but I should say the Corn Laws could be nothing to THAT act of Parliament.
At this humorous notion, all the clerks laughed in concert. 'There was such a game with Fogg here, this mornin', said the man in the brown coat, 'while Jack was upstairs sorting the papers, and you two were gone to the stamp-office. Fogg was down here, opening the letters when that chap as we issued the writ against at Camberwell, you know, came in what's his name again?
"I did not hear you sir," said M. Piston. "You must be deaf, then. Have you any change about you?" "Yes sir," answered the clerk, with some surprise. "Well, then, you must go instantly to the nearest stamp-office, and fetch me three or four large sheets of stamped paper, to draw up a deed. Run! it is wanted directly."
This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing nothing for his livelihood. In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without license; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.
On the Saturday Dick Shand had been with him. He had remained in town on the Monday and Tuesday by agreement with Mr. Seely. Early on the Tuesday intimation was given to him that Bagwax would come on the Wednesday with further evidence, with evidence which should be positively conclusive. Bagwax had, in the meantime, been with his friend Smithers at the stamp-office, and was now fully prepared.
"Well, what can I do for you, some little favour, eh? Snug sinecure for a favourite clerk, or a place in the Stamp-Office for your fat footman John, I think you call him? You know, my dear Douce, you may command me." "Oh, indeed, you are all good-good-goodness but but " Vargrave threw himself back, and shutting his eyes and pursing up his mouth, resolutely suffered Mr.
Between us there is a great gulf, not of inexplicable moral antipathies and distances, I hope, as there seemed to be between me and that gentleman concerned in the stamp-office that I so strangely recoiled from at Haydon's. I think I had an instinct that he was the head of an office, I hate all such people, accountants' deputy accountants.
"I did not hear you sir," said M. Piston. "You must be deaf, then. Have you any change about you?" "Yes sir," answered the clerk, with some surprise. "Well, then, you must go instantly to the nearest stamp-office, and fetch me three or four large sheets of stamped paper, to draw up a deed. Run! it is wanted directly."
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