human
Yes, my Lord, your Lordship's quite true, 'pon my word!--Most uncommon _ups_ and _downs!_ Lord, my Lord, only to fancy _me_, a few months ago, trotting up and down Oxford Street with my yard mea
gpt
Well, sir, replied the earl, with an expression of bland and dignified sympathy--
human
Allow me, sir, to ask whether you have come to any arrangement with your late opponent concerning the back-rents?
gpt
No, my Lord, not yet; but my solicitors say they'll soon _have the screw on_, please your Lordship--that's just what they say--their very words.
human
Indeed, sir! replied the earl, gravely.
gpt
What is the sum to which they say you are entitled, sir?
human
Sixty thousand pounds, my Lord, at least--quite set me up at starting, my Lord--won't it?
gpt
By the way, Mr. Titmouse, said he, after a considerable pause--
human
I trust you will forgive me for suggesting whether it would not be a prudent step for you to go to one of the universities, for at least a twelvemonth.
gpt
Humbly begging your Lordship's pardon, am not I too old? I've heard they're all a pack of overgrown schoolboys there--and learn nothing but a bit of some old languages that a'n't the least use now-a-days, seeing it a'n't _spoke_ now, anywhere --replied Titmouse--
human
Besides, I've talked the thing over with Mr. Gammon, my Lord
gpt
Mr. Gammon? Allow me, sir, to ask who that may be?
human
One of my solicitors, my Lord; a most remarkable clever man, and an out-and-out lawyer, my Lord. It was he that found out all about my case, my Lord. If your Lordship was only to see him for a moment, your Lordship would say what a _remarkable_ clever man that is!
gpt
You will forgive my curiosity, sir--but it must have surely required very ample means to have carried on so arduous a lawsuit as that which has just terminated so successfully?
human
Oh yes, my Lord!--Quirk, Gammon, and Snap did all that; and, between me and your Lordship, I suppose I shall have to come down a pretty long figure, all on the _nail_, as your Lordship understands; but I mean them to get it all out of that respectable gent, Mr. Aubrey!