I had a good classical education, and a positive distaste for business of any kind: that was the capital with which I faced the world. ‘What did I do? Why, I sat down and reflected. ‘What did you do then?’ asked Salisbury, disposing of his hat, and settling down in the corner of the seat, with a glance of fond anticipation at the menu. Yes, as I was saying, I became even harder up.’ I was wondering as I walked down whether the corner table were taken. But suppose we go in there might be other people who would like to dine it’s a human weakness, Salisbury.’ My financial state was described by a friend as “stone broke.” I don’t approve of slang, mind you, but such was my condition. But the curious thing is that soon after you saw me I became harder up. ‘My dear Salisbury, your memory is admirable. I think I remember your telling me that you owed five weeks’ rent, and that you had parted with your watch for a comparatively small sum.’ You remember I was getting rather hard up when you came to my place at Charlotte Street?’ But where have you been, Dyson? I don’t think I can have seen you for the last five years?’ ‘I beg your pardon wasn’t looking where I was going. His eyes were downcast in study of the pavement, and thus it was that as he passed in at the narrow door a man who had come up from the lower end of the street jostled against him. Charles Salisbury was slowly pacing down Rupert Street, drawing nearer to his favorite restaurant by slow degrees. One evening in autumn, when the deformities of London were veiled in faint blue mist, and its vistas and far-reaching streets seemed splendid, Mr.
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