Lighting-Up Time (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lighting-Up TimeReprehensible speed, and follow this up by doing his own repairs and defending himself very creditably m a court of law. He made a point of knowing every one, and, alone of all the occupants of that mysterious mansion, he could pass the time of day with the equine gentleman as well as with the moral vigilants, with the Commissioner for Oaths as well as with the yea-and-nayers, with the maidens who ¿icked the keys in the stenographic agency and the maidens who bowed their knees in the sale of exclusive footwear. His encyclopaedic mind contained sections neatly allotted to Lombard Street, to Fleet Street, and to Bedford Street, so that his understanding of the mechanism of high finance, of the organs of public Opinion, and of the vicissitudes of dramatic art was thorough and up to date. Was such a man to see life through a window in Whitehall or to record its comedy in the notebooks of a pedagogue? Even the sipping of port, con genial though that occupation might have been, would, if limited to a country Vicarage or a senior common-room, have tired Peter Penruddock. The law, he agreed, was an ass, interesting perhaps psychologically, but tedious to drive, as for medicine - a noble affair he conceded, but nobler still to endure than to execute.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.