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If you will show me which is your way, I will take another. Mr Tigg was about to speak, but Martin interposed: 'I need scarcely tell you, after what you have just seen, that I have nothing to bestow upon your friend Mr Slyme. And it is quite as unnecessary for me to tell you that I don't desire the honour of your company. 'Stop' cried Mr Tigg, holding out his hand. 'Hold!
'I think it does, replied the chairman, 'and I'm proud to hear you say so. B pays the highest lawful interest 'That an't much, interrupted Jonas. 'Right! quite right! retorted Tigg. 'And hard it is upon the part of the law that it should be so confoundedly down upon us unfortunate victims; when it takes such amazing good interest for itself from all its clients.
And now perhaps, David, you begin to see how the land lies, the Promised Land, the land where there is corn and milk and honey-dew. I hold those eminent and highly romantic parties in the hollow of my hand. A letter from me to M. Lecoq, of the Rue Jerusalem, and their little game is up, their eagle moults, the history of Europe is altered. But what good would all that do Montague Tigg?
Even at such a wanton board, and in such more than doubtful company, this might have proved a disagreeable experiment, but that Tigg and Crimple, studying to understand their man thoroughly, gave him what license he chose: knowing that the more he took, the better for their purpose.
It being now almost three o'clock in the morning. 'Is he hooked, do you think? whispered Crimple, as himself and partner stood in a distant part of the room observing him as he lay. 'Aye! said Tigg, in the same tone. 'With a strong iron, perhaps. Has Nadgett been here to-night? 'Yes. I went out to him. Hearing you had company, he went away. 'Why did he do that?
And now so abject and so pitiful was he at once so maudlin, insolent, beggarly, and proud that even his friend and parasite, standing erect beside him, swelled into a Man by contrast. 'Chiv, said Mr Tigg, clapping him on the back, 'my friend Pecksniff not being at home, I have arranged our trifling piece of business with Mr Pinch and friend. Mr Pinch and friend, Mr Chevy Slyme!
And thus they parted for the night; John Westlock full of light-heartedness and good humour, and poor Tom Pinch quite satisfied; though still, as he turned over on his side in bed, he muttered to himself, 'I really do wish, for all that, though, that he wasn't acquainted with Mr Tigg.
Here Mr Chevy Slyme, whose great abilities seemed one and all to point towards the sneaking quarter of the moral compass, nudged his friend stealthily with his elbow, and whispered in his ear. 'Chiv, said Mr Tigg aloud, in the high tone of one who was not to be tampered with. 'I shall come to that presently. I act upon my own responsibility, or not at all.
'Commission to you, doctor, on four new policies, and a loan this morning, eh? said Crimple, looking, when they had finished lunch, over some papers brought in by the porter. 'Well done! 'Jobling, my dear friend, said Tigg, 'long life to you. 'No, no. Nonsense. Upon my word I've no right to draw the commission, said the doctor, 'I haven't really. It's picking your pocket.
Dodson and Fogg, Sampson Brass, and Montagu Tigg were wont to make it, unless backed by an able, enduring, healthy physique, such as I have seen, almost without exception, in those successful men of business whom I have had the honour and the pleasure of knowing? What if intellect, or what is now called intellect, did not make the world, or the smallest wheel or cog of it?
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