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Be it a duke or a shoeblack, what do I care, hey? what do I care?" "O-o-oh!" sighed the gent who went by the name of Bill Tidd: a very pale young man, with a black riband round his neck instead of a handkerchief, and his collars turned down like Lord Byron. He was leaning against the mantelpiece, and with a pair of great green eyes ogling Miss Brough with all his might.
Then all at once Mr Tidd came and sat upon his head, and made it ache ten times worse, or so it seemed Mr Tidd being the author of one of the books his uncle had placed in his hands to read.
"Talk away, boys!" said Brough, waking out of his sleep; "I only sleep with half an eye, and hear you all. Yes, you shall get into Parliament, Tidd my man, or my name's not Brough! You shall have six per cent. for your money, or never believe me! But as for my daughter ask her, and not me. You, or the Captain, or Titmarsh, may have her, if you can get her.
All the world was dispersed in the heart of the season, and our solitary student of the Temple, in his lonely chambers, notwithstanding all his efforts, found his eye rather wander over the pages of Tidd and Chitty as he remembered that the great event to which he had so looked forward was now occurring, and he, after all, was no actor in the mighty drama.
Torrington made a duet with "My dear fellar!" and "We have already realised that, Mr. Tidd." "So, if there's anything shady in the transaction?" "Nothing." Richard fixed on Cranbourne. "Political?" "No." "You've stirred my curiosity, gentlemen." Mr. Torrington leant forward and laid a hand on his arm, "To this extent we can satisfy it," he said.
He not only changed his make-up, but he also changed his name. The title he gave to the new character which he had come to play was, "Shubel Morgan." The revelation of his identity would be all the more dramatic when it came. When his men and weapons had been selected, he built his camp fire on the Missouri Border. His raid was carefully planned in consultation with Stevens, Kagi and Tidd.
He spent his clerkship in reading and abstracting, with pen in hand, Coke and the elementary writers, instead of Sellon and Tidd; and learnt law as a science, and not as a mechanical art."
Some people said there were no Indians, and no agent to be tomahawked at all; but that the whole had been invented in a house in Crutched Friars. Well, I pitied poor Tidd, whose 20,000l. were thus gone in a year, and whom I met in the City that day with a most ghastly face.
Tidd, that are trying to a reader of my umble attainments. 'Would you like to be taught Latin? I said briskly. 'I will teach it you with pleasure, as I learn it. 'Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield, he answered, shaking his head. 'I am sure it's very kind of you to make the offer, but I am much too umble to accept it. 'What nonsense, Uriah! 'Oh, indeed you must excuse me, Master Copperfield!
The Captain was sneering openly at Miss Brough and her affected ways and talk; but in spite of his bullying contemptuous way I thought she seemed to have a great regard for him, and to bear his scorn very meekly. At twelve Captain Fizgig went off to his barracks at Knightsbridge, and Tidd and I to our rooms.
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