Shadrach, and incautiously looked for the liquor with a lighted candle.

The man was brought to our office by his employers; and certainly, as we all could testify, was _even then_ in a state of frightful intoxication.
As if this were not sufficient, in the obituary was announced the demise of Alderman Pash--Alderman Cally-Pash we used to call him in our lighter hours, knowing his propensity to green fat: but such a moment as this was no time for joking! He was insured by our house for 5,000_l_.

And now I saw very well the truth of a remark of Gus's--viz., that life-assurance companies go on excellently for a year or two after their establishment, but that it is much more difficult to make them profitable when the assured parties begin to die.
The Jewish fires were the heaviest blows we had had; for though the Waddingley Cotton-mills had been burnt in 1822, at a loss to the Company of 80,000_l_., and though the Patent Erostratus Match Manufactory had exploded in the same year at a charge of 14,000_l_., there were those who said that the loss had not been near so heavy as was supposed--nay, that the Company had burnt the above-named establishments as advertisements for themselves.

Of these facts I can't be positive, having never seen the early accounts of the concern.
Contrary to the expectation of all us gents, who were ourselves as dismal as mutes, Mr.Brough came to the office in his coach-and-four, laughing and joking with a friend as he stepped out at the door.
"Gentlemen!" said he, "you have read the papers; they announce an event which I most deeply deplore.

I mean the demise of the excellent Alderman Pash, one of our constituents.