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By Jove , then , he had need work ! '' `` Shall _ we _ set to work , Mr. Thoroughpace ? '' said Weasel , suddenly , looking at his watch lying on his desk . `` I 've promised to let them have these pleas by six o'clock -- or the other side will be signing judgment ; '' and plunging his pen into the inkstand , to work he went , _ more suo _ , as if such a man as his pupil , Mr. Aubrey , had never existed . Weasel was not at all a hard-hearted man ; but I verily believe that if a _ capias ad satisfaciendum _ -LRB- _ i. e. _ final process to take the body into custody to satisfy debt and costs -RRB- against Charles Aubrey , Esquire , had come into Mr. Weasel 's chambers to be '' _ settled _ '' as requiring special accuracy -- after humming and hawing a bit -- and taking an extra pinch of snuff , he would have done his duty by the document faithfully , marked his _ seven-and-sixpence _ in the corner , and sent it out indifferently with other papers ; consoling himself with this just reflection , that the thing _ must _ be done by _ somebody ! _ and he might as well have the _ fee _ as any one else ! On Mr. Aubrey 's return home to dinner , he found that his sister had received another long letter from Dr. Tatham , to which was appended a postscript mentioning Mr. Gammon in such terms as suggested to Mr. Aubrey a little scheme which he resolved to carry into effect on the morrow -- namely , to call himself at the office of Messrs. Quirk , Gammon , and Snap , and seek an interview with Mr. Gammon , who , Dr. Tatham stated , had quitted Yatton for town only the day before the doctor had written to Miss Aubrey .