An' it's willing I'd be to take up your name, but I'm afraid that it's little good it 'ud be after doin' ye.

There's more than a dozen men in the waitin'-room now, an' they've been there for the last half-hour.

Not a single one I've sent up has come down again." "But surely," said Miss Jennie, in her most coaxing tone, "there must be some way to see even such a great man as the editor, and if there is, you know the way." "Indade, miss, an' I'm not so sure there is a way, unless you met him in the strate, which is unlikely.

As I've told ye, there's twelve men now waitin' for him in the big room.

Beyont that room there's another one, an' beyont that again is Mr.Hardwick's office.