2/25 "Are you thinking of following my example and Jervis's--deserting the bedside for the Bar ?" "What! Has Jervis gone into the law ?" I exclaimed. "I have become parasitical on Thorndyke! 'The big fleas have little fleas,' you know. I am the additional fraction trailing after the whole number in the rear of a decimal point." "Don't you believe him, Berkeley," interposed Thorndyke. "He is the brains of the firm. I supply the respectability and moral worth. |