It was Aberthaw who put it in that corner; but I had forgotten that it was lettered.

The others are all numbered." Of course Mr.Jellicorse was not weak enough to make the partner of his bosom the partner of his business; and much as she longed to know why he had put an unusual question to her, she trusted to the future for discovery of that point.

She left him, and he with no undue haste--for the business, after all, was not his own--began to follow out his train of thought, in manner much as follows: "This is that old Duncombe's writing--'Dunder-headed Duncombe,' as he used to be called in his lifetime, but 'Long-headed Duncombe' afterward.
None but his wife knew whether he was a wise man, or a wiseacre.

Perhaps either, according to the treatment he received.

Richard Yordas treated him badly; that may have made him wiser.