He was a great man on 'Change, too; and our young chaps used to hear from the stockbrokers' clerks (we commonly dined together at the "Cock and Woolpack," a respectable house, where you get a capital cut of meat, bread, vegetables, cheese, half a pint of porter, and a penny to the waiter, for a shilling)--the young stockbrokers used to tell us of immense bargains in Spanish, Greek, and Columbians, that Brough made.

Hoff had nothing to do with them, but stopped at home minding exclusively the business of the house.

He was a young chap, very quiet and steady, of the Quaker persuasion, and had been taken into partnership by Brough for a matter of thirty thousand pounds: and a very good bargain too.

I was told in the strictest confidence that the house one year with another divided a good seven thousand pounds: of which Brough had half, Hoff two-sixths, and the other sixth went to old Tudlow, who had been Mr.Brough's clerk before the new partnership began.

Tudlow always went about very shabby, and we thought him an old miser.