'I'm to go down to the bottom, and I'm to stay at the office till seven o'clock every day for a month; and old Foolscap says he'll ship me the next time I'm absent half-an-hour without leave.' 'Oh! is that all ?' said Charley.

'If that's all you get for pork chops and senna, I'm all right.

I shouldn't wonder if I did not get promoted;' and so he went in to his interview.
What was the nature of the advice given him, what amount of caution he was called on to endure, need not here be exactly specified.

We all know with how light a rod a father chastises the son he loves, let Solomon have given what counsel he may to the contrary.

Charley, in spite of his manifold sins, was a favourite, and he came forth from the board-room an unscathed man.