Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . es and the locks were Marie Antoinettebronze gilding, embossed, single and was a matter of pride to the Promoters thatno two were exactly alike. A large male blackcat, bearing round its neck a silver collar, addedthe note of domesticity, and was already familiarto Britain through the personal paragraphs ofthe daily press. The whole was rendentd com-plete by a porter, than whom nothing moresplendid could serve a sovereign in arms,whet
Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . es and the locks were Marie Antoinettebronze gilding, embossed, single and was a matter of pride to the Promoters thatno two were exactly alike. A large male blackcat, bearing round its neck a silver collar, addedthe note of domesticity, and was already familiarto Britain through the personal paragraphs ofthe daily press. The whole was rendentd com-plete by a porter, than whom nothing moresplendid could serve a sovereign in arms,whether in London or Berlin. This man was a Swedish Protestant; inheight he was fully six feet seven, his hair wasof the colour of tow, his eyes were of a fadedblue, his face was white and yellow ; in in-tellect, while not deficient, he was of a de-liberation which admirably suited the natureof his employment; nor could any length ofhours passed in the public gaze at the MainEntrance weary the Northern steadfastness ofhis mind. Proud of his uniform, content withhis wages, enormous in his manner as in hisdimensions, he was a further and a crowning. THE rOKTEU OF Tllli M KOUlO S UKI. I A LlliVtl.(Jl>H-NT CO.( a GKOLl) MR BURDEN 221 proof of Mr Barnetts instinct for what thoseadjuncts are, which cheer on to success theenergies of an Imperial race. I would I had the space or leisure to deal atfurther length with this remarkable and simplefigure ; indeed, long before Mr Burdens death,it was my intention to devote to the portrayalof this porters life and character that literaryskill which has now been turned into another,a far graver, and I fear a more monotonouschannel. I had intended to relate exactly hiscareer. How, stranded in the docks of London,this towering Scandinavian had obtained em-ployment as a Life-guard ; how, deserting fromhis Corps on account of the bullying to which hewas subjected by his comrades, he found hisway into the Metropolitan Police. Dismissedfrom this
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