His sister also, though sisterly enough in her disposition to him, did not quite like having a brother employed as a clerk in her husband's office.

They therefore put their heads together, and, as the Tudors had good family connexions in England, a nomination in the Weights and Measures was procured.
The nomination was procured; but when it was ascertained how very short a way this went towards the attainment of the desired object, and how much more difficult it was to obtain Mr.
Hardlines' approval than the Board's favour, young Tudor's friends despaired, and recommended him to abandon the idea, as, should he throw himself into the Thames, he might perhaps fall beyond the reach of the waterman's hook.

Alaric himself, however, had no such fears.

He could not bring himself to conceive that he could fail in being fit for a clerkship in a public office, and the result of his examination proved at any rate that he had been right to try.
The close of his first year's life in London found him living in lodgings with Henry Norman.

At that time Norman's income was nearly three times as good as his own.