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After an apprenticeship there of a single year, his father set him up in trade, joining with him in the conduct of a country store his elder brother, William, a youth more indolent, if possible, as well as more disorderly and uncommercial, than Patrick himself. One year of this odd partnership brought the petty concern to its inevitable fate.
When my uncommercial travels tend to this dismal spot, my comfort is its rickety state.
'Yes! said the Chief, 'we har! and the wonder is, that a pleeseman an't 'ad in now, and we took off agen. You can't open your lips here, without a pleeseman. 'I'm sure I'd be thankful, protested the Chief, looking sideways at the Uncommercial, 'if I could be got into a place, or got abroad. I'm sick and tired of this precious Ouse, I am, with reason. So would be, and so was, Number Two.
'It ain't no good being nothink else here, said the Chief. The Uncommercial thought it might be worth trying. 'Oh no it ain't, said the Chief. 'Not a bit of good, said Number Two. 'And I'm sure I'd be very thankful to be got into a place, or got abroad, said the Chief. 'And so should I, said Number Two. 'Truly thankful, I should.
All of which is sheer nonsense. Dickens may have known the George Inn in those early days, but being only a mere boy is not likely to have frequented it. Although in later years those of Little Dorrit and the Uncommercial Traveller it is quite likely he may have visited it. Indeed, Miss Murray, the present hostess, tells us he did.
Not to prolong these notes of uncommercial travel among the lower animals of shy neighbourhoods, by dwelling at length upon the exasperated moodiness of the tom-cats, and their resemblance in many respects to a man and a brother, I will come to a close with a word on the fowls of the same localities.
In doing the little I did for her, I remember to have had the kind help of some gentle-hearted functionary to whom I addressed myself but what functionary I have long forgotten who I suppose was officially present at the Inquest. I regard this as a very notable uncommercial experience, because this good came of a Beadle.
Tours has a garrison of five regiments, and the little red-legged soldiers light up the town. You see them stroll upon the clean, uncommercial quay, where there are no signs of navigation, not even by oar, no barrels nor bales, no loading nor unloading, no masts against the sky nor booming of steam in the air.
Sympathisers with this view seem much more numerous in the United States than in England. The judgment of an uncommercial traveller on commercial morality may well be held as a feather-weight in the balance.
There were never enough of them to represent any calling or neighbourhood. They had all gone elsewhere over-night, and the few stragglers in the many churches languished there inexpressively. Among the Uncommercial travels in which I have engaged, this year of Sunday travel occupies its own place, apart from all the rest.
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