13/18 Go downstairs and mind the shop." "It's not open yet, sir," remonstrated Mr.Tulliver. I'll have no idling and shirking because I'm ill. Let the business go on just as if I was there to watch it." "I'm going, sir," whimpered the young man; "but it does seem rather a poor return after having served you as I have, and loved you as if you'd been my own father." "Very much men love their fathers now-a-days! I didn't ask you to love me, did I? You wanted my money like the rest of them, and I didn't mind your thinking there was a chance of your getting it. |