The Monarch of MincingLane A Novel - 1 Author:William Black Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: Tinsley Brothers Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illu... more »strations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. TRINITY-SQUARB. It was very seldom indeed that Mr. Philip honoured his father's offices in Mincing-lane with a visit. Sometimes he drove down in :i hansom, and condescended to take the advice of Mr. Ewart upon money-matters. On these occasions he spoke but briefly to his pale-faced cousin, and never thought of going upstairs to see his father. Richard Drcm was a man of business; and as the liberal allowance he gave his son was to be reckoned in figures just like anything else, the matter was transacted through the mediation of his head-clerk. Sometimes, too, Mr. Philip, after having indulged somewhat too freely in whist or pool with Mary Thormanby's uncle, was forced to appeal to Mr. Ewart for help out of his difficulties. This the head-clerk readily granted ; and even ventured, in his grave paternal way, to hint that the young gentleman should be a little more careful about his money, and a good deal less extravagant. So far as the advice helped him to pecuniary relief Mr. Philip took it, and was negligently thankful; but where it referred to retrenchment he laughed it off in his careless way, much to the envy and chagrin of his cousin Arthur, who bitterly complained of the habits of this spoiled child of fortune, and perhaps thought every 50/. note which Philip received was so much taken out of the business, to which he, Arthur, secretly hoped to succeed. As for Philip Drem, he had no more not...« less