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I wonder how he came here," said a retired gentleman, who had been a tallow-chandler on Holborn Hill. The vicar took off his hat, and all uncovered. Lord Marney and his brother magistrate rode briskly up to the inn and rapidly dismounted. "Well, Snigford," said his lordship, in a peremptory tone, "this is a pretty business; I'll have this stopped directly."
You may as well relinquish at once all thought of going, since I strictly forbid your laying any such plans. If you do not wish to be a tallow-chandler, you may try some other business. I shall not insist upon your working with me, though I shall insist upon your following some calling." "I shall not want to go to sea against your wishes," said Benjamin.
And as to his rank, he had almost become ashamed of it, since, as he was wont to declare was now the case, every prosperous tallow-chandler throughout the country was made a baronet as a matter of course.
"When he 'blagued' just now about his crosses, I thought there was something in him," whispered the Eastern hero to the painter. "However, we'll set him going on his decorations, the old tallow-chandler! Come, my lad," he added, calling to Oscar, "drink me down the glass poured out for the chandler; that will start your moustache."
When he was fit for a trade, his friends agreed to put him out, and not thinking they should find a master good enough for him in a country place, they sent him to Dublin, and bound him to a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler in St. Thomas's Street, whom he faithfully served seven years, and his master gave him a good character.
Having been told that they were made of camel's hair, he pulled hairs out of the tail of a cat, of which he made his first brush. Other eminent Persons. Dr. Franklin was the son of a tallow-chandler, and served an apprenticeship to a printer; Rev. Dr.
"Are your parents not willing that you should go to sea?" "No; they won't hear a word about it. I have talked with them till it is of no use. They seem to think that I should be shipwrecked, or that something else would happen, to prevent my return." "Then, if you can't go to sea, and you won't be a tallow-chandler, what can you do?"
Now and again he was asked out to dinner where he got both a punkah and an iced drink. But this was seldom, for people objected to recognizing a boy who had evidently the instincts of a Scotch tallow-chandler, and who lived in such a nasty fashion.
That seemed to promise more than to go into business by the aid of only a tallow-chandler. He reported next to Keimer, who was glad to welcome him back, especially so because he had considerable work on hand, and no person could turn it off like Benjamin. "Glad to see you, Ben. I suppose the governor will be round to see you when he hears of your arrival."
Then she thought of Hugh Stanbury, sitting as he had described himself, in a little dark closet at the office of the "D. R.," in a very old inky shooting-coat, with a tarnished square-cut cloth cap upon his head, with a short pipe in his mouth, writing at midnight for the next morning's impression, this or that article according to the order of his master, "the tallow-chandler;" for the editor of the Daily Record was a gentleman whose father happened to be a grocer in the City, and Hugh had been accustomed thus to describe the family trade.
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