The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy. Galsworthy John

      “Well, it’s been very jolly to hear about you all!”

      He followed me out.

      “Awfully glad, old man,” he said, “to have seen you, and had this talk. I was feeling rather low. Waiting to know whether I get that job – it’s not lively.”

      He came down the Club steps with me. By the door of my cab a loafer was standing; a tall tatterdemalion with a pale, bearded face. My distant relative fended him away, and leaning through the window, murmured: “Awful lot of these chaps about now!”