The young man looked a moment at the door after it was closed, and then turned round to Newton.
"If yours is really law business, take my advice, don't stay to see him; I'll take you to a man who is a lawyer. Here you'll get no law at all."
"Thankye," replied Newton, laughing; "but mine really is not law business."
The noise of the handle of the door indicated that Mr Forster was about to re-open it to summon Newton; and the young man, with a hasty good morning, brushed by Newton and hastened into the street.
Chapter XXIX
"HAMLET.—Is not parchment made of sheepskin?
HORATIO.—Ay, my lord, and of calves' skins too.
HAMLET.—They are sheep and calves which
Seek out their assurance in that."
SHAKESPEARE.
The door opened as intimated at the end of our last chapter, and Newton obeyed the injunction from the lawyer's eye to follow him into the room.