Barry Pain,
City Chronicles — vi. Fifteen per Cent…
(1901)
“ James Pollet's bill of costs, and felt poignantly, as others have done before him, the hideous injustice by which a solicitor, acting for mortgagor and mortgagee, charges everything to the man who borrows the money, and is therefore presumably the less able to pay. ”
Barry Pain,
City Chronicles — vi. Fifteen per Cent…
(1901)
“ It was during that visit, as he sat in the smoking-room with his uncle, that Uncle Langley said, a propos of something that he had just read in the paper, that he could not for the life of him make out why any solicitor was fool enough to play about with trust funds. "A solicitor has so many ways of making money that are perfectly legal. The swells of the profession may turn up their noses at them, but you ask Jimmy Pollet. He doesn't know what a slack time is. He doesn't let his clerks sit idle for want of business. He always keeps something going, does Jimmy." ”
Barry Pain,
City Chronicles — vi. Fifteen per Cent…
(1901)
“ Ernest reflected. "I don't quite understand, uncle, what you meant by this Pollet never having a slack time and always keeping something going. His business must be subject to the same fluctuations as others." "Well, like most other solicitors, he has got a certain number of clients who practically leave their money in his hands for him to invest at his discretion. When he finds things are slack he has nothing to do but to move that money round a little. Every time that money moves some sticks to Jimmy's hands, as by law appointed. ”
