But, if you please, m'm, I don't presume to know the exact relation;" and then with great reserve, "but you know you are anxious about him." Miss Rouse sniffed, and threw her nose in the air--as if to throw a doubt even on that view of the matter.
"Well, madam," says Wardlaw, "I am sorry to say I can give you no information.

I share your anxiety, for I have got 160,000 pounds of gold in the ship.

You might inquire at Lloyd's.

Direct her there, Mr.Penfold, and bring me my letters." With this he entered his inner office, sat down, took out a golden key, opened the portrait of Helen, gazed at it, kissed it, uttered a deep sigh, and prepared to face the troubles of the day.
Penfold brought in a leathern case, like an enormous bill-book.

It had thirty vertical compartments; and the names of various cities and seaports, with which Wardlaw & Son did business, were printed in gold letters on some of these compartments; on others the names of persons; and on two compartments the word "Miscellaneous." Michael brought this machine in, filled with a correspondence enough to break a man's heart to look at.
This was one of the consequences of Wardlaw's position.