Bleak House by Charles Dickens Chapter 2 Page 18

clients with any new proceedings in a cause" — cautious man Mr. Tulkinghorn, taking no more responsibility than necessary — "and further, as I see you are going to Paris, I have brought them in my pocket."

(Sir Leicester was going to Paris too, by the by, but the delight of the fashionable intelligence was in his Lady.)

Mr. Tulkinghorn takes out his papers, asks permission to place them on a golden talisman of a table at my Lady's elbow, puts on his spectacles, and begins to read by the light of a shaded lamp.

"'In Chancery. Between John Jarndyce — '"

My Lady interrupts, requesting him to miss as many of the formal horrors as he can.

Mr.