United States or South Korea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Fledgeby presented, has the air of going to say something, has the air of going to say nothing, has an air successively of meditation, of resignation, and of desolation, backs on Brewer, makes the tour of Boots, and fades into the extreme background, feeling for his whisker, as if it might have turned up since he was there five minutes ago.
Fascination Fledgeby, left alone in the counting-house, strolled about with his hat on one side, whistling, and investigating the drawers, and prying here and there for any small evidences of his being cheated, but could find none.
Why do you listen? asked the lady. 'I am not listening, said the dressmaker. 'What do you hear? asked the lady, altering her phrase. 'Is it a kind of a spluttering somewhere? said the dressmaker, with an inquiring look. 'Mr Fledgeby in his shower-bath, perhaps, remarked the lady, smiling. 'And somebody's beating a carpet, I think?
But his youthful fire was all composed of sparks from the grindstone; and as the sparks flew off, went out, and never warmed anything, be sure that Fledgeby had his tools at the grindstone, and turned it with a wary eye. Mr Alfred Lammle came round to the Albany to breakfast with Fledgeby.
Asks me, as if his sharp old eye why, it cuts like a knife wasn't looking at his walking-stick by the door! 'Do I go, sir? 'Do you go? sneered Fledgeby. 'Yes, you do go. Toddle, Judah!
"He has got a bad name as an old Jew, and he is paid for the use of it, and I'll have my money's worth out of him." Thus ran Mr. Fledgeby's reflections on the subject, and Miss Wren sat listening to the conversation with a fallen countenance, until Mr. Riah came in, when Mr. Fledgeby led the old man to make statements which seemed further to emphasize his hard-heartedness and dishonesty. Then Mr.
'I know you're not good friends at present, said Fledgeby. 'I know all about it. I should like to pay off Judah, by not letting him have his own deep way in everything. In most things he'll get it by hook or by crook, but hang it all! don't let him have his own deep way in everything.
When I tell them, "I cannot promise this, I cannot answer for the other, I must see my principal, I have not the money, I am a poor man and it does not rest with me," they are so unbelieving and so impatient, that they sometimes curse me in Jehovah's name. 'That's deuced good, that is! said Fascination Fledgeby. 'And at other times they say, "Can it never be done without these tricks, Mr Riah?
'I must have gone too far in making myself disagreeable, said Fledgeby, 'but I never intended it. 'Say no more, say no more! Mr Lammle repeated in a magnificent tone. 'Give me your' Fledgeby started 'hand. They shook hands, and on Mr Lammle's part, in particular, there ensued great geniality.
'Always the same, always the same! said Lammle. 'Mr 'Riah, Pubsey and Co. Saint Mary Axe, Fledgeby put in, as he wiped away the tears that trickled from his eyes, so rare was his enjoyment of his secret joke. 'Mr Riah is bound to observe the invariable forms for such cases made and provided, said Lammle. 'He is only the representative of another! cried Fledgeby.
Word Of The Day