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"If it had been ten, sir, he would have been not a bit more eager. You don't know the city of London, and the passion which our great men in the share-market have for increasing their connection. Mr. Brough, sir, would canvass and wheedle a chimney-sweep in the way of business. See, here is poor Tidd and his twenty thousand pounds. Our Director has taken possession of him just in the same way.
S'pose you're getting some sort of satisfaction out of it, but a man with a hole in the sole of his boot doesn't much fancy having his leg pulled. Goodnight." But Nugent Cassis intervened between Richard and the door. "We give you our word, Mr. Tidd, the sum mentioned will be at your disposal tomorrow three weeks if you agree to remain." "Your words," said Richard with a touch of irony.
He spoke gently as though addressing an electric fitting on the wall facing him. "I am sorry, Mr. Tidd, you are indisposed to remain. My friend had no thought of offending when he offered the temporary accommodation you have just returned. It was our intention to reward the services of whoever assisted us in this matter with a sum that a gentleman might have no embarrassment in accepting.
He forgot the chill of the night air. His brain was suddenly on fire. Brown waited at the entrance of the bridge until the watchman had been captured and Cook and Tidd had cut the line on the Maryland side of the river. He then advanced across the covered way to the gate of the Arsenal hut a few yards beyond the Virginia entrance. He captured Daniel Whelan, the watchman at the Arsenal entrance.
Tidd was not there that day, for nothing could make him forsake his Byron riband or refrain from wearing his collars turned down; so Tidd was sent with the buggy to Astley's.
There was an aristocracy there as elsewhere, amongst other gents, a son of my Lord Deuce-ace; and many of the men in the prison were as eager to walk with him, and talked of his family as knowingly, as if they were Bond Street bucks. Poor Tidd, especially, was one of these.
"Say at once he was a tailor, Tidd." "He was a tailor, sir, but what of that? I've had a University education, and have the feelings of a gentleman; as much ay, perhaps, and more, than some members of an effete aristocracy." "Tidd, don't be severe!" says the Captain, drinking a tenth glass. "Well, Mr. Titmarsh, when of age I come into a considerable property; and Mr.
Why, sir, the humble person now speaking to you could buy out many a German duke! But I'm not proud no, no, not proud. There's my daughter look at her when I die, she will be mistress of my fortune; but am I proud? No! Let him who can win her, marry her, that's what I say. Be it you, Mr. Fizgig, son of a peer of the realm; or you, Bill Tidd.
There, pitch into Tidd. You've got your work cut out, young fellow. No letters for me?" "No. Yes, there is one." "No! yes! Well, you are a pretty sort of a fellow. Where is it?" "I laid it in uncle's room." "What! Didn't I tell you my letters were not to go into his room? Of all the "
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."
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