There's the 'ouse at the back for him to live in, and rent free, no doubt; and there's a good lumping salary, _that_ you may go bail.

Now what do you think o' that job ?' 'And him not as much as offerin' it to you!' 'Not so much as offerin' it! How many 'ud he have got to hear his lectures without me, I'd like to know! I shouldn't have taken it; no, of course I shouldn't; it wouldn't a' suited me to take a librarianship.

But it was his bounden duty to give me the first offer.
I never thought he'd make one of _us_ librarian; if it had been some stranger, I shouldn't have made so much of it.

But to give it to Grail in that sneaking, underhanded way! Why, I'd be ashamed o' myself.

I've a rare good mind never to go near his lectures again.' 'You'd better go,' said Mrs.Bower, prudently.