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Updated: May 8, 2025
"A proper like business we'd have had to-day if he'd gone on like this in old times!" grumbled Andrew. "He gets through things quick enough, I admit; but I tell you he does not take the same interest in them. He talks of 'dry details'!" "Is that so?" said Mr. Thomieson, his eyes opening. "It's a fact. And he's started cracking jokes with the clerks." "Aye, I heard him yesterday myself.
"He was doing it coming home from church last Sunday." "Verra strange, verra strange," commented Mr. Thomieson. He seemed more struck with the peculiarity of the senior partner's conduct; Andrew with its offensiveness. "He shows a fine grasp of things all the same," added the clerk. "In that way it fairly does me good sir, to see him so speerited. It minds me of old times."
Thomieson, and dictated letters which left his confidential clerk divided between the extremes of admiration for their shrewdness and horror at the terse and lively style in which they were couched; in short, he got through a day's work that sent him home at four o'clock in the best of spirits. Andrew met him in the hall. "Hullo," said Heriot, "where have you been all this time?"
When things need settling, I just settle them myself and leave him to grumble away to Thomieson." Miss Walkingshaw gasped, and the widow gave the sweetest little laugh. "Poor Andrew!" said she. "Poor Andrew indeed," retorted her friend, with more indignation than she had almost ever permitted herself in the presence of her formidable brother. He looked at her in genuine surprise.
Thomieson, his confidential clerk, decorously tucked the scarf beneath the velvet collar, he offered a word or two of respectful sympathy. "Far the wisest thing to go home, sir. But will you not take a cab? It's an awful like day to be out with a chill on ye." Mr. Walkingshaw perceived his junior partner gazing on him in severe silence, and defiantly decided to walk.
You heard him yourself 'moral obligation' 'might be fought! 'get it settled. He's botched the whole business." Mr. Thomieson shook his grizzled head. "It's certainly not been our usual way of doing business." Andrew glowered at his desk. "He said he was going to leave the business to me, and in forty-eight hours he was taking more responsibilities on his shoulders than he had for years!
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