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The neighbors show the little pier at Waterhead whence he watched the morning or the evening light on the lake, the place where he bathed, and the tracks in the mountains which led to his favorite ridges. Everybody has read his "Life and Correspondence," and therefore knows what his mode of life was here, and how great was his enjoyment of it.
I daren't face the street!" All the way home his only idea was: Could it not be hidden? Honest, kindly little man that he was, he seemed to have no thought for the unfortunate victims. The good name of his master, of his friend, gone! Stillwood, Waterhead and Royal, a by-word! To have avoided that I believe he would have been willing for yet another hundred clients to be ruined.
"It does not seem to have infected you, sir," I replied; for, as I think I have already mentioned, the firm of Stillwood, Waterhead and Royal was held in legal circles as the synonym for rectitude of dealing quite old-fashioned.
However, we did it all and came down to Threlkeld of the Bridal of Triermain, "'The King his way pursued By lonely Threlkeld's waste and wood, "in good time for me to dress and, for a wonder, go out to dinner with Acland's friends the Butlers." As an episode in this visit to Keswick, ten days were given to the neighbourhood of Ambleside, "to show Downes Windermere." "Waterhead, Windermere,
"10th August, 1867, Evening. "I was at Coniston to-day. Our old Waterhead Inn, where I was so happy playing in the boats, exists no more.
They would give no trouble, they said; they would be out rambling or sketching all day long; would be perfectly content with a share of the food which she provided for herself; or would procure what they required from the Waterhead Inn at Coniston. But no liberal sum no fair words moved her from her stony manner, or her monotonous tone of indifferent refusal.
"To have commenced your career in the office of Stillwood, Waterhead and Royal will be a passport for you anywhere. It will stamp you, my boy." Mr. Stillwood himself was an extremely old and feeble gentleman so old and feeble it seemed strange that he, a wealthy man, had not long ago retired. "I am always meaning to," he explained to me one day soon after my advent in his office.
He was a slightly pompous but simpleminded little old gentleman, very proud of his position as head clerk to Mr. Stillwood, the solicitor to whom my father was now assistant. Stillwood, Waterhead and Royal dated back to the Georges, and was a firm bound up with the history occasionally shady of aristocratic England. True, in these later years its glory was dwindling. Old Mr.
Coniston especially was dreary with rain, and its inn the old Waterhead, now destroyed extravagantly dear; "but," says John, with his eye for mineral specimens, "it contains several rich coppermines."
It seemed as though with his amazing audacity he had tricked even Death into becoming his accomplice. "But it is impossible, Kelver!" cried Gadley, "this must be some dream. Stillwood, Waterhead and Royal! What is the meaning of it?" He took the book into his hands again, then burst into tears. "You never knew him," wailed the poor little man. "Stillwood, Waterhead and Royal!
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