10/27 Terms, 10 guineas a week .-- Apply Pertwee and Co., 3A Bucklersbury. "The new copper" did not interest me; what little washing we might want could wait, I thought. I pictured Ethelbertha playing in the evening--something with a chorus, in which, perhaps, the crew, with a little training, might join--while our moving home bounded, "greyhound-like," over the silvery billows. Mr.Pertwee was an unpretentious-looking gentleman, who had an unostentatious office on the third floor. He showed me a picture in water-colours of the _Rogue_ flying before the wind. |