His countenance10 was of a pale yellow complexion11 just tinged12 with red, and he never coloured; his neck was a darker yellow. Upon the whole, his features were regular, except the mouth, which was large, and protruded13 like a monkey's; the eyes were grey, with a bold regard, which not seldom was excusably mistaken for insolence14.
Considering his years, Jenkins was a highly accomplished15 person, in certain directions. Upon all matters connected with her Majesty's mail and inland revenue, upon cab fares, bus-routes, and local railways, upon "Pitman outlines," and upon chamber16 practice in Chancery, he was an unquestioned authority. He knew the addresses of several hundred London solicitors18, the locality of nearly every street and square within the four-mile radius19, and, within the same limits, the approximate distance of any one given spot from any other given spot.
He was the best billiard-player in the office, and had once made a spot-barred break of 49; this game was his sole pastime. He gambled regularly upon horse-races, resorting to a number of bookmakers, but neither winning nor losing to an appreciable20 extent; no less than three jockeys occasionally permitted him to enjoy their companionship, and he was never without a stable-tip.
His particular hobby, however, was restaurants. He spent half his income upon food, and quite half his waking hours either in deciding what he should consume, or in actual drinking and mastication21. He had personally tested the merits of every bar and house of refreshment in the neighbourhood of the Law Courts, from Lockhart's to Gatti's, and would discourse22 for hours on their respective virtues23 and defects. No restaurant was too mean for his patronage25, and none too splendid; for days in succession he would dine upon a glass of water and a captain biscuit with cheese, in order to accumulate resources for a delicate repast in one of the gilded26 establishments where the rich are wont27 to sustain themselves; and he had acquired from his father a quantity of curious lore28, throwing light upon the secrets of the refreshment trade, which enabled him to spend the money thus painfully amassed29 to the best advantage.
Jenkins was a cockney and the descendant of cockneys; he conversed30 always volubly in the dialect of Camberwell; but just as he was subject to attacks of modishness31, so at times he attempted to rid himself of his accent, of course without success. He swore habitually32, and used no reticence33 whatever, except in the presence of his employers and of Mr. Alder34 the manager. In quick and effective retort he was the peer of cabmen, and nothing could abash35 him. His favourite subjects of discussion were restaurants, as before mentioned, billiards36, the turf, and women, whom he usually described as "tarts38." It was his custom to refer to himself as a "devil for girls," and when Mr. Alder playfully accused him of adventures with females of easy virtue24, his delight was unbounded.
There were moments when Richard loathed39 Jenkins, when the gross and ribald atmosphere which attended Jenkins' presence nauseated40 him, and utter solitude41 in London seemed preferable to the boy's company; but these passed, and the intimacy42 throve. Jenkins, indeed, had his graces; he was of an exceedingly generous nature, and his admiration43 for the deep literary scholarship which he imagined Richard to possess was ingenuous44 and unconcealed. His own agile45 wit, his picturesque46 use of slang, his facility in new oaths, and above all his exact knowledge of the byways, and backwaters of London life, endowed him, in Richard's unaccustomed eyes, with a certain specious47 attractiveness. Moreover, the fact that they shared the same room and performed similar duties made familiar intercourse48 between them natural and necessary. With no other member of the staff did Richard care to associate. The articled clerks, though courteously50 agreeable to everyone, formed an exclusive coterie51; and as for the rest, they were either old or dull, or both. He often debated whether he should seek out Mr. Aked, who was now recovered, and had once, unfortunately in Richard's absence, called at the office; but at length he timidly decided52 that the extent of their acquaintance would not warrant it.
"Where shall we go to lunch to-day?" was almost the first question which Richard and Jenkins asked each other in the morning, and a prolonged discussion would follow. They called the meal "lunch," but it was really their dinner, though neither of them ever admitted the fact.
Jenkins had a predilection53 for grill54-rooms, where raw chops and steaks lay on huge dishes, and each customer chose his own meat and superintended its cooking. A steak, tender and perfectly55 cooked, with baked potatoes and half a pint56 of stout57, was his ideal repast, and he continually lamented58 that no restaurant in London offered such cheer at the price of one shilling and threepence, including the waiter. The cheap establishments were never satisfactory, and Jenkins only frequented them when the state of his purse left no alternative. In company with Richard he visited every new eating-house that made its appearance, in the hope of finding the restaurant of his dreams, and though each was a disappointment, yet the search still went on. The place which most nearly coincided with his desires was the "Sceptre," a low, sombre room between the Law Courts and the river, used by well-to-do managing clerks and a sprinkling of junior barristers. Here, lounging luxuriously59 on red plush seats, and in full sight and hearing of a large silver grill, the two spent many luncheon60 hours, eating slowly, with gross, sensual enjoyment61, and secretly elated by the proximity62 of men older and more prosperous than themselves, whom they met on equal terms.
Richard once suggested that they should try one of the French restaurants in Soho which Mr. Aked had mentioned.
"Not me!" said Jenkins, in reply. "You don't catch me going to those parley-voo shops again. I went once. They give you a lot of little messes, faked up from yesterday's dirty plates, and after you've eaten half a dozen of 'em you don't feel a bit fuller. Give me a steak and a potato. I like to know what I'm eating."
He had an equal detestation of vegetarian63 restaurants, but once, during a period of financial depression, he agreed to accompany Richard, who knew the place fairly well, to the "Crabtree" in Charing64 Cross Road, and though he grumbled65 roundly at the insubstantiality of the three-course dinner à la carte which could be obtained for sixpence, he made no difficulty, afterwards, about dining there whenever prudence66 demanded the narrowest economy.
An air of chill and prim67 discomfort68 pervaded69 the Crabtree, and the mingled70 odour of lentils and sultana pudding filled every corner. The tables were narrow, and the chairs unyielding. The customers were for the most eccentric as to dress and demeanour; they had pale faces, and during their melancholy71 meals perused72 volumes obviously instructive, or debated the topics of the day in platitudinous73 conversations unspiced by a single oath. Young women with whom their personal appearance was a negligible quantity came in large numbers, and either giggled74 to one another without restraint or sat erect75 and glared at the males in a manner which cowed even Jenkins. The waitresses lacked understanding, and seemed to resent even the most courteous49 advances.
One day, just as they were beginning dinner, Jenkins eagerly drew Richard's attention to the girl at the pay-desk. "See that girl?" he said.
"What about her? Is she a new one?"
"Was she at that A. B. C. shop in the Strand76?" said Richard, who began to remember the girl's features and her reddish brown hair.
"Yes, that's her. Before she was at the A. B. C. she was cashier at that boiled-beef place opposite the Courts, but they say she got the sack for talking to customers too much. She and Aked were very thick then, and he went there every day. I suppose his courting interfered with business."
"But he's old enough to be her father!"
"Yes. He ought to have been ashamed of himself. She's not a bad kind, eh?"
"There wasn't anything between them, really, was there?"
"I don't know. There might have been. He followed her to the A. B. C, and I think he sometimes took her home. Her name's Roberts. We used to have him on about her—rare fun."
The story annoyed Richard, for his short tête-à-tête with Mr. Aked had remained in his mind as a pleasant memory, and though he was aware that the old man had been treated with scant77 respect by the youngsters in the office, he had acquired the habit of mentally regarding him with admiration, as a representative of literature. This attachment78 to a restaurant cashier, clearly a person of no refinement79 or intellect, scarcely fitted with his estimate of the journalist who had spoken to Carlyle.
During the meal he surreptitiously glanced at the girl several times. She was plumper than before, and her cough seemed to be cured. Her face was pleasant, and undoubtedly80 she had a magnificent coiffure.
When they presented their checks, Jenkins bowed awkwardly, and she smiled. He swore to Richard that next time he would mention Mr. Aked's name to her. The vow81 was broken. She was willing to exchange civilities, but her manner indicated with sufficient clearness that a line was to be drawn82.
In the following week, when Richard happened to be at the Crabtree alone, at a later hour than usual, they had rather a long conversation.
"Is Mr. Aked still at your office?" she asked, looking down at her account books.
Richard told what he knew.
"Oh!" she said, "I often used to see him, and he gave me some lozenges that cured a bad cough I had. Nice old fellow, wasn't he?"
"I thought I'd just ask, as I hadn't seen him about for a long time."
"Good afternoon—Miss Roberts."
"Good afternoon—Mr.——"
They both laughed.
A trivial dispute with Jenkins, a few days later, disclosed the fact that that haunter of bars had a sullen85 temper, and that his displeasure, once aroused, was slow to disappear. Richard dined alone again at the Crabtree, and after another little conversation with Miss Roberts, having time at his disposal, he called at the public library in St. Martin's Lane. In a half-crown review he saw an article, by a writer of considerable repute, entitled "To Literary Aspirants," which purported86 to demonstrate that a mastery of the craft of words was only to be attained87 by a regular course of technical exercises; the nature of these exercises was described in detail. There were references to the unremitting drudgery88 of Flaubert, de Maupassant, and Stevenson, together with extracts chosen to illustrate89 the slow passage of the last-named author from inspired incompetence90 to the serene91 and perfect proficiency92 before which all difficulties melted. After an unqualified statement that any man—slowly if without talent, quickly if gifted by nature—might with determined93 application learn to write finely, the essayist concluded by remarking that never before in the history of literature had young authors been so favourably94 circumstanced as at that present. Lastly came the maxim95, Nulla dies sine linea.
Richard's cooling enthusiasm for letters leaped into flame. He had done no writing whatever for several weeks, but that night saw him desperately96 at work. He took advantage of the quarrel to sever17 all save the most formal connection with Jenkins, dined always frugally97 at the Crabtree, and spent every evening at his lodging98. The thought of Alphonse Daudet writing "Les Amoureuses" in a Parisian garret supported him through an entire month of toil99, during which, besides assiduously practising the recommended exercises, he wrote a complete short story and began several essays. About this time his "City of Sleep" was returned upon his hands in a condition so filthy100 and ragged101 that he was moved to burn it. The short story was offered to an evening daily, and never heard of again.
It occurred to him that possibly he possessed some talent for dramatic criticism, and one Saturday evening he went to the first performance of a play at the St. George's theatre. After waiting for an hour outside, he got a seat in the last row of the pit. Eagerly he watched the critics take their places in the stalls; they chatted languidly, smiling and bowing now and then to acquaintances in the boxes and dress circle; the pit was excited and loquacious102, and Richard discovered that nearly everyone round about him made a practice of attending first nights, and had an intimate knowledge of the personnel of the stage. Through the hum of voices the overture103 to "Rosamund" fitfully reached him. During whole bars the music was lost; then some salient note caught the ear, and the melody became audible again until another wave of conversation engulfed104 it.
The conclusion of the last act was greeted with frenzied105 hand-clapping, beating of sticks, and inarticulate cries, while above the general noise was heard the repeated monosyllable "'thor, 'thor." After what seemed an interminable delay the curtain was drawn back at one side and a tall man in evening dress, his face a dead white, stepped before the footlights and bowed several times; the noise rose to a thunderous roar, in which howls and hissing107 were distinguishable. Richard shook from head to foot, and tears unaccountably came to his eyes.
The whole of Sunday and Monday evening were occupied in writing a detailed108 analysis and appreciation109 of the play. On Tuesday morning he bought a weekly paper which devoted110 special attention to the drama, in order to compare his own view with that of an acknowledged authority, and found that the production was dismissed in ten curt106 lines as mere111 amiable112 drivel.
A few days afterwards Mr. Curpet offered him the position of cashier in the office, at a salary of three pounds a week. His income was exactly doubled, and the disappointments of unsuccessful authorship suddenly ceased to trouble him. He began to doubt the wisdom of making any further attempt towards literature. Was it not clear that his talents lay in the direction of business? Nevertheless a large part of his spare cash was devoted to the purchase of books, chiefly the productions of a few celebrated113 old continental114 presses, which he had recently learned to value. He prepared a scheme for educating himself in the classical tongues and in French, and the practice of writing was abandoned to make opportunity for the pursuit of culture. But culture proved to be shy and elusive115. He adhered to no regular course of study, and though he read much, his progress towards knowledge was almost imperceptible.
Other distractions116 presented themselves in the shape of music and painting. He discovered that he was not without critical taste in both these arts, and he became a frequenter of concerts and picture-galleries. He bought a piano on the hire-purchase system, and took lessons thereon. In this and other ways his expenditure117 swelled118 till it more than swallowed up the income of three pounds a week which not long before he had regarded as something very like wealth. For many weeks he made no effort to adjust the balance, until his debts approached the sum of twenty pounds, nearly half of which was owing to his landlady119. He had to go through more than one humiliating scene before an era of economy set in.
One afternoon he received a telegram to say that William Vernon had died very suddenly. It was signed "Alice Clayton Vernon." Mrs. Vernon was William's stately cousin-in-law, and Richard, to whom she had spoken only once,—soon after Mary's wedding,—regarded her with awe120; he disliked her because he found it impossible to be at ease in her imposing121 presence. As he went into Mr. Curpet's room to ask for leave of absence, his one feeling was annoyance122 at the prospect123 of having to meet her again. William's death, to his own astonishment124, scarcely affected125 him at all.
Mr. Curpet readily granted him two days' holiday, and he arranged to go down to Bursley the following night for the funeral.
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mastication
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