The Law-Writer
“On the eastern
borders of Chancery Lane, that is to say, more particularly in Cook’s Court,
Cursitor Street, Mr. Snagsby, law-stationier, pursues his lawful calling. In
the shade of Cook’s Court, at most times a shady place, Mr. Snagsby has dealt
in all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment;
in paper – foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whitey-brown, and blotting; in
stamps; in office-quills, pens, ink, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils,
sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape and green ferret; in pocket-books,
almanacs, diaries, and law-lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands – glass and
leaden – pen-knives, scissors, bodkins, and other small office-cutlery; in
short, in articles too numerous to mention, ever since he was out of his time
and went into partnership with Peffer.”
Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1852-1853
Found at
Palimpsest, and clarified at
Orange Crate Art, I thought this worth repeating.
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