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The premises had been "converted" by a now long-forgotten association, called the "Drapery Company," and as this had not been successful, Mr. Holliday and his then partner, Mr. Merrett, had become its successors. It was in 1839 that the first portion of the present palatial building was erected.
Merrett, Barnacle, and Company's office, please?" "Yes," said one of the clerks, shortly, "what about it?" "Oh, if you please," I began, "I've come to that is I've " "Come, out with it, can't you?" said the clerk. "It's the situation," said I, feeling very uncomfortable.
Is Masham a friend of Smith or his family?" "Would you mind reading the letter, sir?" I said; "that will answer the question better than I can." Mr Barnacle did so, and Mr Merrett also. In the midst of my trouble it was at least a satisfaction to see the look of disgust which came into both their faces as they perused its contents. "A dastardly letter!" said Mr Merrett.
However, I had other things to think of, for to-morrow was Saturday, the day on which I was to make my solitary excursion to London in quest of the junior clerkship at Merrett, Barnacle, and Company's.
I gave him a quartet of an hour or so to quiet down, partly in the hope that Mr Merrett might meanwhile arrive. But as that event did not happen, and as Doubleday informed me that the advertisements for a new clerk were to be sent out that morning, I made up my mind there was nothing to be gained by further delay, and therefore made the venture.
Suddenly finding my tongue, I cried "Oh, please don't, please don't! I can explain it all. For mercy sake don't be cruel don't send me to prison! I am innocent, Mr Merrett, Mr Barnacle; I can explain it all. Please don't have me locked up."
I asked, who had expected a solitary lodging. "Yes, lots of 'em; and a bad lot too." "Are they Merrett, Barnacle, and Company's boys?" I inquired. "Who?" inquired Mrs Nash, rather bewildered. I saw my mistake in time. Of course this was a regular lodging-house for office-boys generally. "Leave your box there," said Mrs Nash, "and come along."
I was ready to give it up as a bad job, and go and tell my uncle I must decline all his kind suggestions, when, in an obscure corner of one paper, my eye caught the following: "Junior clerkship. An intelligent lad, respectable, and quick at figures, wanted in a merchant's office. Wages 8 shillings a week to commence. Apply by letter to Merrett, Barnacle, and Company, Hawk Street, London."
"I don't think I ate much, sir," protested Dunstable. "It must have been what I ate. I went to that new American place." "So you went there, too? Why, I've just come from attending a bilious boy in Mr. Seymour's house. He said he had been at the American place, too." "Was that Merrett, sir? He was one of the party. We were all bad. We can't all have eaten too much." The doctor looked thoughtful.
A crowd, made up of members of various houses, was pushing to get past another crowd which was trying to get out. The "public-school tea at one shilling" appeared to have proved attractive. "Look at 'em," said Dunstable. "Sordid beasts! All they care about is filling themselves. There goes that man Merrett. Rand-Brown with him. Here come four more. Come on. It makes me sick."
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