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But one never knows what may happen to these women, so I'm thinking of insuring her life. It is but fair, you know, that a man should secure some consolation in case of meeting with such a loss. 'If anything can console him under such heart-breaking circumstances, murmured Tigg, with his eyes shut up as before. 'Exactly, returned Jonas; 'if anything can.
Same name as usual, I suppose? 'Still the same name, said Mr Tigg; 'my claim to the dormant peerage not being yet established by the House of Lords. 'The old address? 'Not at all, said Mr Tigg; 'I have removed my town establishment from thirty-eight, Mayfair, to number fifteen-hundred-and-forty-two, Park Lane. 'Come, I'm not going to put down that, you know, said the shopman with a grin.
Jonas assented, and said after a short silence, first spreading out his legs, and sticking one arm akimbo to show how perfectly at home he was, 'The truth is 'Don't say, the truth, interposed Tigg, with another grin. 'It's so like humbug. Greatly charmed by this, Jonas began again. 'The long and the short of it is 'Better, muttered Tigg. 'Much better!
'Oh, Chiv, Chiv! added Mr Tigg, surveying his adopted brother with an air of profound contemplation after dismissing this piece of pantomime. 'You are, upon my life, a strange instance of the little frailties that beset a mighty mind. If there had never been a telescope in the world, I should have been quite certain from my observation of you, Chiv, that there were spots on the sun!
When it had come to a close for the second time, Mr Tigg sat himself down in a chair and addressed the young men as follows: 'Then I tell you what it is, gents both.
'I wish you wouldn't be so fond of making notes, my excellent friend, said Tigg Montague with a ghastly smile. 'I wish you would consent to give me their purport by word of mouth. 'I don't like word of mouth, said Mr Nadgett gravely. 'We never know who's listening.
'But you have NOT, cried Tigg. 'I must persist in that opinion. If you could have seen me, Mr Pinch, at the head of my regiment on the coast of Africa, charging in the form of a hollow square, with the women and children and the regimental plate-chest in the centre, you would not have known me for the same man. You would have respected me, sir.
'It'll never be the last time till it's quite worn out, rejoined the shopman. 'It's grown yellow in the service as it is. 'Its master has grown yellow in the service, if you mean that, my friend, said Mr Tigg; 'in the patriotic service of an ungrateful country. You are making it two-and-six, I think? 'I'm making it, returned the shopman, 'what it always has been two shillings.
"Seated in his room at the Grand Hotel with his carpet slippers on his feet and his body wrapped in a blue dressing-gown with pink insertions, after writing a letter of farewell to his wife and emptying a bottle of Scotch whisky in which he exonerated her from all culpability in his death, Congressman Ahasuerus P. Tigg was found by night-watchman, Henry T. Smith, while making his rounds as usual with four bullets in his stomach."
'Say, genius, David, genius. 'Well, upon my soul, you ARE a genius then, said David. 'I always knew you had the gift of the gab, of course; but I never believed you were half the man you are. How could I? 'I rise with circumstances, David. That's a point of genius in itself, said Tigg.
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