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1The Fellow of Delicacy Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's
2daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation. After some mental
3debating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be as well to get all the preliminaries done with, and
4they could then arrange at their leisure whether he should give her his hand a week or two before Michaelmas Term, or in
5the little Christmas vacation between it and Hilary. As to the strength of his case, he had not a doubt about it, but
6clearly saw his way to the verdict. Argued with the jury on substantial worldly grounds--the only grounds ever worth
7taking into account--it was a plain case, and had not a weak spot in it. He called himself for the plaintiff, there was
8no getting over his evidence, the counsel for the defendant threw up his brief, and the jury did not even turn to
9consider. After trying it, Stryver, C. J., was satisfied that no plainer case could be. Accordingly, Mr. Stryver
10inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall Gardens; that failing, to
11Ranelagh; that unaccountably failing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind.
12Towards Soho, therefore, Mr. Stryver shouldered his way from the Temple, while the bloom of the Long Vacation's infancy
13was still upon it. Anybody who had seen him projecting himself into Soho while he was yet on Saint Dunstan's side of
14Temple Bar, bursting in his full-blown way along the pavement, to the jostlement of all weaker people, might have seen
15how safe and strong he was. His way taking him past Tellson's, and he both banking at Tellson's and knowing Mr. Lorry as
16the intimate friend of the Manettes, it entered Mr. Stryver's mind to enter the bank, and reveal to Mr. Lorry the
17brightness of the Soho horizon. So, he pushed open the door with the weak rattle in its throat, stumbled down the two
18steps, got past the two ancient cashiers, and shouldered himself into the musty back closet where Mr. Lorry sat at great
19books ruled for figures, with perpendicular iron bars to his window as if that were ruled for figures too, and
20everything under the clouds were a sum. "Halloa!" said Mr. Stryver. "How do you do? I hope you are well!" It was
21Stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space. He was so much too big for Tellson's,
22that old clerks in distant corners looked up with looks of remonstrance, as though he squeezed them against the wall.
23The House itself, magnificently reading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the
24Stryver head had been butted into its responsible waistcoat. The discreet Mr. Lorry said, in a sample tone of the voice
25he would recommend under the circumstances, "How do you do, Mr. Stryver? How do you do, sir?" and shook hands. There was
26a peculiarity in his manner of shaking hands, always to be seen in any clerk at Tellson's who shook hands with a
27customer when the House pervaded the air. He shook in a self-abnegating way, as one who shook for Tellson and Co. "Can I
28do anything for you, Mr. Stryver?" asked Mr. Lorry, in his business character. "Why, no, thank you; this is a private
29visit to yourself, Mr. Lorry; I have come for a private word." "Oh indeed!" said Mr. Lorry, bending down his ear, while
30his eye strayed to the House afar off. "I am going," said Mr. Stryver, leaning his arms confidentially on the desk:
31whereupon, although it was a large double one, there appeared to be not half desk enough for him: "I am going to make an
32offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend, Miss Manette, Mr. Lorry." "Oh dear me!" cried Mr. Lorry,
33rubbing his chin, and looking at his visitor dubiously. "Oh dear me, sir?" repeated Stryver, drawing back. "Oh dear you,
34sir? What may your meaning be, Mr. Lorry?" "My meaning," answered the man of business, "is, of course, friendly and
35appreciative, and that it does you the greatest credit, and--in short, my meaning is everything you could desire.
36But--really, you know, Mr. Stryver--" Mr. Lorry paused, and shook his head at him in the oddest manner, as if he were
37compelled against his will to add, internally, "you know there really is so much too much of you!" "Well!" said Stryver,
38slapping the desk with his contentious hand, opening his eyes wider, and taking a long breath, "if I understand you, Mr.
39Lorry, I'll be hanged!" Mr. Lorry adjusted his little wig at both ears as a means towards that end, and bit the feather
40of a pen. "D--n it all, sir!" said Stryver, staring at him, "am I not eligible?" "Oh dear yes! Yes. Oh yes, you're
41eligible!" said Mr. Lorry. "If you say eligible, you are eligible." "Am I not prosperous?" asked Stryver. "Oh! if you
42come to prosperous, you are prosperous," said Mr. Lorry. "And advancing?" "If you come to advancing you know," said Mr.
43Lorry, delighted to be able to make another admission, "nobody can doubt that." "Then what on earth is your meaning, Mr.
44Lorry?" demanded Stryver, perceptibly crestfallen. "Well! I--Were you going there now?" asked Mr. Lorry. "Straight!"
45said Stryver, with a plump of his fist on the desk. "Then I think I wouldn't, if I was you." "Why?" said Stryver. "Now,
46I'll put you in a corner," forensically shaking a forefinger at him. "You are a man of business and bound to have a
47reason. State your reason. Why wouldn't you go?" "Because," said Mr. Lorry, "I wouldn't go on such an object without
48having some cause to believe that I should succeed." "D--n me!" cried Stryver, "but this beats everything." Mr. Lorry
49glanced at the distant House, and glanced at the angry Stryver. "Here's a man of business--a man of years--a man of
50experience--in a Bank," said Stryver; "and having summed up three leading reasons for complete success, he says there's
51no reason at all! Says it with his head on!" Mr. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been
52infinitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off. "When I speak of success, I speak of success with the
53young lady; and when I speak of causes and reasons to make success probable, I speak of causes and reasons that will
54tell as such with the young lady. The young lady, my good sir," said Mr. Lorry, mildly tapping the Stryver arm, "the
55young lady. The young lady goes before all." "Then you mean to tell me, Mr. Lorry," said Stryver, squaring his elbows,
56"that it is your deliberate opinion that the young lady at present in question is a mincing Fool?" "Not exactly so. I
57mean to tell you, Mr. Stryver," said Mr. Lorry, reddening, "that I will hear no disrespectful word of that young lady
58from any lips; and that if I knew any man--which I hope I do not--whose taste was so coarse, and whose temper was so
59overbearing, that he could not restrain himself from speaking disrespectfully of that young lady at this desk, not even
60Tellson's should prevent my giving him a piece of my mind." The necessity of being angry in a suppressed tone had put
61Mr. Stryver's blood-vessels into a dangerous state when it was his turn to be angry; Mr. Lorry's veins, methodical as
62their courses could usually be, were in no better state now it was his turn. "That is what I mean to tell you, sir,"
63said Mr. Lorry. "Pray let there be no mistake about it." Mr. Stryver sucked the end of a ruler for a little while, and
64then stood hitting a tune out of his teeth with it, which probably gave him the toothache. He broke the awkward silence
65by saying: "This is something new to me, Mr. Lorry. You deliberately advise me not to go up to Soho and offer
66myself--myself, Stryver of the King's Bench bar?" "Do you ask me for my advice, Mr. Stryver?" "Yes, I do." "Very good.
67Then I give it, and you have repeated it correctly." "And all I can say of it is," laughed Stryver with a vexed laugh,
68"that this--ha, ha!--beats everything past, present, and to come."
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