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Elfride looked silently and hopelessly out of the ith large heavy eyes and wet cheeks

'I call it great te to call it audacity--in Hewby,' resu such a hobbledehoy native of this place such an introduction to me as he did Naturally you were deceived as well as I was I don't blame you at all, so far' He went and searched for Mr Hewby's original letter 'Here's what he said to reeably to your request of the 18th instant, I have arranged to survey and s," et cetera "My assistant, Mr Stephen Smith,"--assistant, you see he called him, and naturally I understood him to mean a sort of partner Why didn't he say "clerk"?'

'They never call them clerks in that profession, because they do not write Stephen--Mr Smith--told me so So that Mr Hewby simply used the accepted word'

'Let me speak, please, Elfride! My assistant, Mr Stephen SMANY THANKS FOR YOUR PROPOSAL TO ACCOMMODATE HIMYOU MAY PUT EVERY CONFIDENCE IN HIM, and may rely upon his discernment in the ht to be asha so much of a poor lad of that sort'

'Professionalabout their clerks' fathers and mothers They have assistants who come to their offices and shops for years, and hardly even knohere they live What they can do--what profits they can bring the firm--that's all London men care about And that is helped in hi uniformly pleasant'

'Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty It shows that a h to knohom to despise'

'It shows that he acts by faith and not by sight, as those you claim succession fro you, I suppose! Yes, I was inclined to suspect him, because he didn't care about sauces of any kind I always did doubt a entleman if his palate had no acquired tastes An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart The idea ofout a bottle of my '40 Martinez--only eleven of thehteenpenny! Then the Latin line he gave to my quotation; it was very cut-and-dried, very; or I, who haven't looked into a classical author for the last eighteen years, shouldn't have reo to your rooet over this bit of tomfoolery in time'