Regarding Mr. Derby being expelled from his boarding house for stealing. Transcription: fight over the supper-table. I hate rows but I hate scoundrels more and think that had Murno Munro, on discovering him with the shirt on, had just bruised and battered his [Mr. Derby ?s] thievish face for ten minutes, he would scarcely have gone pilfering into another boarding-house, as he undoubtedly will. Brutality has its uses sometimes. Billington says Derby informed him that he kept a mistress somewhere. The fellow was idle, seemed to have his time at his own lazy disposal. He wanted Billington and [J
Regarding Mr. Derby being expelled from his boarding house for stealing. Transcription: fight over the supper-table. I hate rows but I hate scoundrels more and think that had Murno Munro, on discovering him with the shirt on, had just bruised and battered his [Mr. Derby ?s] thievish face for ten minutes, he would scarcely have gone pilfering into another boarding-house, as he undoubtedly will. Brutality has its uses sometimes. Billington says Derby informed him that he kept a mistress somewhere. The fellow was idle, seemed to have his time at his own lazy disposal. He wanted Billington and [James] Morris to descend and room with him, which the former was disposed to do. I don ?t think Derby ?s foraging for means to maintain his harlot in their wardrobe would have resulted in much, as they admit. They are still in debt to Mrs B [Susan Boley]. They came to me for occasional quarters, for quotations, for suggestions, criticisms, books &c ? all well enough as far as it goes, but the profit account isn ?t on my side; I get nothing from them intellectually. Morris I like, he is kindly natured, gentle and gentlemanly (barring Yankee localisms) but he has twopenny ha ?penny ways about him which rile me into occasional antagonism, when he gets it and thinks me savage and satirical. Instance, the first evening we took him to Edwards ? he, on our returning home together raised some Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 155, November 29, 1859 . 29 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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