I want as many respectable persons in the Company as I can bring.

I want you because I like you, and I don't mind telling you that I have views of my own as well; for I am an honest man and say openly what I mean, and I'll tell you _why_ I want you.

I can't, by the regulations of the Company, have more than a certain number of votes, but if your aunt takes shares, I expect--I don't mind owning it--that she will vote with me.

_Now_ do you understand me?
My object is to be all in all with the Company; and if I be, I will make it the most glorious enterprise that ever was conducted in the City of London." So I signed the letter and left it with Mr.B.to frank.
The next day I went and took my place at the third clerk's desk, being led to it by Mr.B., who made a speech to the gents, much to the annoyance of the other chaps, who grumbled about their services: though, as for the matter of that, our services were very much alike: the Company was only three years old, and the oldest clerk in it had not six months' more standing in it than I.

"Look out," said that envious M'Whirter to me.