The things we do!

At the second dinner, when the testimonial was presented, Hobson was not
present. Nor did his name figure amongst those engraven on the trunk of
Mr. Newcome's allegorical silver cocoa-nut tree. As we travelled
homewards in the omnibus, Fred Bayham noticed the circumstance to me. "I
have looked over the list of names," says he, "not merely that on the
trunk, sir, but the printed list; it was rolled up and placed in one of
the nests on the top of the tree. Why is Hobson's name not there?--Ha! it
mislikes me, Pendennis."
F. B., who was now very great about City affairs, discoursed about stocks
and companies with immense learning, and gave me to understand that he
had transacted one or two little operations in Capel Court on his own
account, with great present, and still larger prospective, advantages to
himself. It is a fact that Mr. Ridley was paid, and that F. B.'s costume,
though still eccentric, was comfortable, cleanly, and variegated. He
occupied the apartments once tenanted by the amiable Honeyman.


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