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consideration of a certain scale of pay large gold seal ring. He always listens ments accurately defined, and on cer to himself with obvious satisfaction, tain verbal notice duly given, he should and sometimes gently beats time to his be at liberty to elect to share the Sun own music with his head, or rounds a day breakfast, dinner, tea or supper, sentence with his hand. or each or any or all of these re pasts or meals, of Mr. and Miss Rugg (his daughter) in the back parlor. The daughter's feelings had been ruthlessly mangled and her heart severely lacerated by a "fiend in human form," a mid dle-aged baker, resident in the vicinity, against whom she had, by the agency of Mr. Rugg, found it necessary to proceed at law, and from whom she had recovered substantial damages which she had invested in the public securities — through which circumstance she had acquired a little property and much distinction in the neighbor hood. William Stryver, in "The Tale of Two Cities," is sharply drawn as a type of the elbowing wind bag and demagogue, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any draw SERGEANT BUZFUZ back of delicacy. It is said that Harry Kumiss's picture of the driving, chaffing bar Stryver is patterned after Lord orator who proves that Mr. Pickwick's note about "chops and tomato sauce" is a declaration of love, and Thurlow, who when he needed that his reminder "not to forget the warming-pan" is only a flimsy cover to express the ardor of his affections. the law he lacked, had many jackals of the Sydney Carton type to look it up for him. Among these as Mr. Vholes, also in "Bleak House," sistants of Thurlow were John Scott, who the chancery lawyer, is, we are told, a after became the famous Lord Chancellor type of the placid treasurers and presi Eldon, and the Welsh lawyer who became dents of mining, agricultural, commer eminent as Lord Chief Justice Kenyon. cial and railroad companies, who pre Mr. Kenge, of the firm of Kenge and serve, on the strength of salaries noto Carboy, in "Bleak House," stands for riously disproportioned to their abilities, the charlatan and pettifogger. He is a calm, mysterious sublimity of expres called "Conversation" Kenge, because sion, while comforting inquiring stock he enjoys beyond everything the sound holders with the vague assurance that of his rich, mellow voice. He is a all will be right in the end. portly, important looking gentleman, Mr. Tulkinghorn, another lawyer in dressed all in black, with white cravat, "Bleak House," is one of the malignant gold watch seals, gold eye-glasses and a types of the Dickens lawyer, yet unique