`D--n it all, sir!' said Stryver, staring at him, `am I not eligible?'
`Oh dear yes! Yes. Oh yes, you're eligible!' said Mr. Lorry. `If you say eligible, you are eligible.'
`Am I not prosperous?' asked Stryver.
`Oh! if you come to prosperous, you are prosperous,' said Mr. Lorry.
`If you come to advancing, you know,' said Mr. Lorry, delighted to be able to make another admission, `nobody can doubt that.'
`Then what on earth is your meaning, Mr. Lorry?' demanded Stryver, perceptibly crestfallen.
`Well! I Were you going there now?' asked Mr. Lorry. `Straight!' said Stryver, with a plump of his fist on the desk. `Then I think I wouldn't, if I was you.'
`Why?' said Stryver. `Now, I'll put you in a corner,' forensically shaking a forefinger at him. `You are a man of business and bound to have a reason. State your reason.
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But still the purpose was strong within me, and the first
In later days I have more than once read the play, and
to maintain an interest in a fictitious story, to dwell
damp freshness in the air of the passage, and a sort of
not suffice — did not nearly suffice. I still felt that
— nor even anything which, from outward circumstances,
parent’s fond affection, was, I think, the simple result
and not Spaniards and that they were in sad want of tobacco
every letter. Wherever the man may live to whom a letter
Three or four inches of water now flooded the cave of the
was the manager of a bank. We were not very rich, having