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This explanation over, the baby, who was unhurt, and who rejoiced in the name of Lillyvick Kenwigs, was instantly almost suffocated under the caresses of the audience, and squeezed to his mother's bosom until he roared again.
'You needn't alarm yourself a bit, Mr Snevellicci, said Mrs Lillyvick. 'She is only a little weak and nervous; she has been so ever since the morning. 'Oh, said Mr Snevellicci, 'that's all, is it? 'Oh yes, that's all. Don't make a fuss about it, cried all the ladies together.
'Uncle, said Mrs Kenwigs, 'to think that you should have turned your back upon me and my dear children, and upon Kenwigs which is the author of their being you who was once so kind and affectionate, and who, if anybody had told us such a thing of, we should have withered with scorn like lightning you that little Lillyvick, our first and earliest boy, was named after at the very altar!
'Oh don't twist about so, dear, or I can never hold you. 'My baby, my blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed baby! screamed Mrs Kenwigs, making every blessed louder than the last. 'My own darling, sweet, innocent Lillyvick Oh let me go to him. Let me go-o-o-o!
'Yes she is a clever girl. 'She is a divinity, returned Mr Lillyvick, giving a collector's double knock on the ground with the umbrella before-mentioned.
Two additional chairs were brought in from the bedroom: Miss Snevellicci sat at the head of the table, and Mr Lillyvick at the foot; and Nicholas had not only the honour of sitting next Miss Snevellicci, but of having Miss Snevellicci's mama on his right hand, and Miss Snevellicci's papa over the way.
'Oh, you're not going, Mr Lillyvick, sir, interposed Miss Petowker, with her most bewitching smile. 'Why should I stop here, my dears? said Mr Lillyvick; 'I'm not wanted here. 'Oh, do not speak so cruelly, uncle, sobbed Mrs Kenwigs, 'unless you wish to kill me. 'I shouldn't wonder if some people were to say I did, replied Mr Lillyvick, glancing angrily at Kenwigs. 'Out of temper! 'Oh!
Regardless of this circumstance, however, Mrs Lillyvick refused to be comforted until the belligerents had passed their words that the dispute should be carried no further, which, after a sufficient show of reluctance, they did, and from that time Mr Folair sat in moody silence, contenting himself with pinching Nicholas's leg when anything was said, and so expressing his contempt both for the speaker and the sentiments to which he gave utterance.
Excusing himself, in these terms, from joining in the festivities, Nicholas took a most winning farewell of Mrs Kenwigs and the other ladies, and retired, after making a very extraordinary impression upon the company. 'What a delightful young man! cried Mrs Kenwigs. 'Uncommon gentlemanly, really, said Mr Kenwigs. 'Don't you think so, Mr Lillyvick?
Affected by this example, the proprietor began to clip Miss Kenwigs, the journeyman to scrape the old gentleman, and Newman Noggs to read last Sunday's paper, all three in silence: when Miss Kenwigs uttered a shrill little scream, and Newman, raising his eyes, saw that it had been elicited by the circumstance of the old gentleman turning his head, and disclosing the features of Mr Lillyvick the collector.
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