Galloway. Behold him, therefore,
with a perfect shower of smooth, fair curls upon his head, equal to any
young beau.
It was in this gentleman's office that Arthur Channing had been placed,
with a view to his becoming ultimately a proctor. To article him to Mr.
Galloway would take a good round sum of money; and this had been put
off until the termination of the suit, when Mr. Channing had looked
forward to being at his ease, in a pecuniary point of view. There were
two others in the same office. The one was Roland Yorke, who was
articled; the other was Joseph Jenkins, a thin, spare, humble man of
nine and thirty, who had served Mr. Galloway for nearly twenty years,
earning twenty-five shillings a week. He was a son of old Jenkins, the
bedesman, and his wife kept a small hosiery shop in High Street. Roland
Yorke was, of course, not paid; on the contrary, he had paid pretty
smartly to Mr. Galloway for the privilege of being initiated into the
mysteries belonging to a proctor. Arthur Channing may be said to have
occupied a position in the office midway between the two. He was to
_become_ on the footing of Roland Yorke; but meanwhile, he received a
small weekly sum in remuneration of his services, as Joe Jenkins did.
Roland Yorke, in his proud moods, looked down upon him as a paid clerk;
Mr. Jenkins looked up to him as a gentleman. It was a somewhat
anomalous position; but Arthur had held his own bravely up in it until
this blow came, looking forward to a brighter time.
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