Fifty Years of London Life Memoirs of a Man of the World
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Her reproaches were not very many, and certainly not very bitter. It had always been her desire that I should do something to distinguish myself in some profession — at the Bar, she had hoped ; and when circumstances proved that such a career was impossible, she had accepted Lord Clanricarde's appointment with special gratitude, knowing as she did that the holding of a Government situation was by no means incompatible with other em- ployment — literary, for instance. Look at Charles Lamb in the... India House ; and there was Mr. Sara Anderson, an old friend of my father's, who was Registrar of something in Chancery Lane, and who had known Sir Water Scott, and written some convivial songs, and been introduced into Christopher North's " Noctes Ambrosiana? " under an- other name. Thus my dear mother, who always laugh- ingly declared there was a great deal of Mrs. Nickleby 140 FIFTY YEARS OF LONDON LIFE. In her, would prattle on, particularly lamenting that, on the rare occasions when I passed an evening at home, and invariably passed it in reading, I should indulge in the perusal of such very light literature, instead of devoting myself to the acquisition of a store of valuable informa- tion.
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