Joseph Wilmot, or, The Memoirs of a Man-Servant — page 270: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

33 a TR — EF Tl > Oh wrWwvOmOrwWlD"'—“ C—O JOSEPH WILMOT ; OR, THE MEMOIRS OT A MAN-SERVANT. 257 SQ iN} iil yi! i be shai om ; Ji | | | we ty : \ il i } a c| ae q ila | MI ii} ii | ye = — \) ‘i i" HY rill "I mn € ol ai e i ih i i a mit all ik i = 5 = a ‘ll a he AL Ne yy li Hy —-iill — cu th 1) > ( HH | i pnt segs y —— TEM ~ <3 = = — —— = — — = in yielding to my terrors and fleeing irom the ex “JT have called,” I said, “in respect to an ad. rellent situation guaranteed to me by Sir Alea yertisement with the initials B. D.” der Carrondale. It was however too late to re- «* Walk in, sir,” said the girl: “it is all right. tract; and now I reflected that if I continuously | The Rev. Mr. Dorchester is up-stairs.” yielded to my fears of Lanover, I should alwaysbe | Thus speaking, she led the way to a neatly- a wanderer on the face of the earth, not daring to | furnished parlour on the first floor, and where I settle down in any particular spot. Besides, it oc- | found an elderly gentleman, of most respectable curred to me that I might possibly make such ar- | appearance, seated at a table on which lay a num-* rangements with the clergyman whom I was going | ber of letters. His age was about sixty: his hair to visit, that would enable me to receive back at was gray—he was tall and thin—and wore a mas- least some portion of my money, if circumstances sive pair of silver spectacles. He was dressed in should at any time arise to compel me to sever the projected partnership. ; Having thus well weighed all my views and prospects, I arrived at Oldham, and proceeded to pleasing—his language good and well chosen. Ris- the house specified in the advertisement in the | ing from his seat, he requested me to take a chair ; Manchester paper. It was a respectable looking | and when he had resumed his own, I communi- habitation; and the door was opened by a cleanly, | cated my business,—mentioning nty name, stating neatly dressed servant-girl. | black, with a white cravat: his linen was scrupu- lously clean. His manners were affable, though his bearing was somewhat grave: his voice was that I had a little ready money at tay command, —— ee CORNICLOO@ S (C(O) im