text:  After the usual congratulations were over the aged file took a rapid survey of the apartment which fortunately was in tolerable order glanced curiously at a pile of legal papers procured--shall I confess it?--from my friend Cotton the eminent tobacconist of Prince's Street uttered a hem in which incredulity seemed mingled with satisfaction and then having been supplied with a tumbler of sherry and ginger-beer--a compound which he particularly affected--he commenced the work of inquisition