Mr.Joseph Walliker certainly was not as yet among this number.
There was a man at Mr.Beilby's who was entitled to greet him with endearing terms, and to be so greeted himself, although Harry had never seen him till he attended for the first time at the Adelphi.

This was Theodore Burton, his future brother-in-law, who was now the leading man in the London house--the leading man as regarded business, though he was not as yet a partner.

It was understood that this Mr.Burton was to come in when his father went out; and in the meantime he received a salary of a thousand a year as managing clerk.

A very hard-working, steady, intelligent man was Mr.Theodore Burton, with a bald head, a high forehead, and that look of constant work about him which such men obtain.

Harry Clavering could not bring himself to take a liking to him, because he wore cotton gloves, and had an odious habit of dusting his shoes with his pocket-handkerchief.