Of more words there is no need.--I
remain, all to you, with the assurance of my most distinguished
consideration,
LECOQ.
From Inspector Bucket to M. Lecoq.
May 22.
Dear Sir,--Your polite favour to hand, and contents noted. You are
a man of the world; I am a man of the world, and proud to deal with
you as between man and man. The little irregularity shall be no
consideration, all shall be squared, and the man wanted run in with
punctuality and despatch. Expect him at Calais on the 26th
current,--Faithfully yours,
C. BUCKET.
From Count Fosco to Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., Goswell
Road.
5 Forest Road, St. John's Wood, May 23.
Dear Sir,--When we met lately at the hospitable board of our common
friend, Benjamin Allen, Esq., lately elected Professor of Chemistry
in the University of London, our conversation turned (if you can
pass me the intoxicating favour of remembering it) on the glorious
science of chemistry. For me this knowledge has ever possessed
irresistible attractions, from the enormous power which it confers
of heaping benefits on the suffering race of mankind. Others may
rejoice in the advantages which a knowledge of it bestows--the
power which can reduce a Hannibal to the level of a drummer boy, or
an all-pervading Shakspeare to the intellectual estate of a
vestryman, though it cannot at present reverse those processes.
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