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Title: The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Brereton, Austin, 1862-1922
Subjects: Literary landmarks -- England London English literature -- England London London (England) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: New York : Duffield
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rom the pavilion, and slapping him onthe back, called out, Tom Coutts, my boy, wehave fined you a bottle for leaving your glass ! According to Mrs Cornwall Baron - Wilson,Thomas Coutts was a tall, thin, spare figure, andhis clothes, always ill-fitting, bore that appearanceof being rubbed at the seams, which reveals the• business coat of an office. He was often mis-taken for an indigent person, and used to enjoythe mistake of all things. There is probably somelittle exaggeration in this, but the banker, mostcertainly, was not extravagant in his dress. Evenif the following anecdote is not strictly accurate,there is, no doubt, some truth in it:— Mr Coutts,from his too strict attention to the bank, felthis appetite diminished ; ana*, in order to affordhim a little exercise, his physician ordered himto walk daily after the bank closed to a chemists,who resided at some distance from the Strand,to have some tonic preparation made up. So quiet and unassuming was he in his manners, that208
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POOR MR COUTTS he always made way for everyone who came whilehe was at the shop, so that they might be servedbefore him; and, with his fair, delicate countenance,spare frame, and very simple dress, no strangersguessed that they were pushing aside the opulentMr Coutts. A kind-hearted, liberal man, a mer-chant—who used to quit his counting-house aboutthe same time that Mr Coutts left the bank, andwho had chanced to be in the chemists shop twoor three times at the hour when the latter camethere—had remarked him, and from his retiring,gentle appearance and actions, concluded he wasa reduced gentleman whose mind was superior tohis means. Accordingly, this charitable merchantresolved to administer to the necessities of theshrinking, modest individual; and, one day, havingsealed up a sum of money for the purpose, hewent to the chemists shop, where he remained alength of time, waiting anxiously for the appear-ance of the latter, who, however, on that day didnot come for the tonic, being p

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