special messenger disturbed the repose of Dennis Howmore, at

umped on a bed-room door, and shouted his message through it

person receiving the message was Sir Giles’s head clerk. As a matter of course, Dennis Howmore dress

he banker’s bed, his night-cap was crumpled crookedly on his head, he was in too gre

r you to do. It must be kept a s

connected with

suppose that anything connected with business could happen at this tim

s,

ck of the stone. If you discover an Object which appears to have been left in that situation on the gr

ion followed these ext

hen he owed it; and, worse still, was disposed to remember in a friendly spirit what England had done for Ireland, in the course of the last fifty years. If anything appeared to justify d

ed on the ground behind it one Object

s this. At the same time, he was acting under orders which were as positive as tone, manner, and language could make them. Passive obedience appeared to be th

contemptible discovery made at the milestone. After having examined and re-examined the fragment, he announced his intention of

open on his bed. “Ask the librarian,” he continued, “for the third volume of Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’ Open the book at pages seventy-eight and seventy-nine. If you find a piece of pap

was a sensible human being, conscious of the consideration to which his responsible place in the office entitled him. Sir Gil

he man to whom you confide the superintendence of your clerks and the transaction of your b

s now offende

s, co-operations, and bank holidays, an employer has one privilege left — he has not ceased to be a Man, and he has not forfe

ade his bow in sil

contrary. He had made up his mind that Sir Giles Mountjoy’s motives shou