Where am I to find my octogenarian prosers?
and when am I to begin my operations upon them ?" "The sooner you begin the better," replied Mr.Sheldon.
"I've taken all preliminary steps for you already, and you'll find the business tolerably smooth sailing.

I've made a list of certain people who may be worth seeing." Mr.Sheldon selected a paper from the numerous documents upon the table.
"Here they are," he said: "John Grewter, wholesale stationer, Aldersgate-street; Anthony Sparsfield, carver and gilder, in Barbican.
These are, so far as I can ascertain, the two oldest men now trading in Aldersgate-street; and from these men you ought to be able to find out something about old Meynell.

I don't anticipate any difficulty about the Meynells, except the possibility that we may find more of them than we want, and have some trouble in shaking them into their places." "I'll tackle my friend the stationer to-morrow morning," said Valentine.
"You'd better drop in upon him in the afternoon, when the day's business may be pretty well over," returned the prudent Sheldon.

"And now all you've got to do, Hawkehurst, is to work with a will, and work on patiently.

If you do as well in London as you did at Ullerton, neither you nor I will have any cause to complain.