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'It's very soon done, sir, isn't it? inquired Mr Folair of the collector, leaning over the table to address him. 'What is soon done, sir? returned Mr Lillyvick. 'The tying up the fixing oneself with a wife, replied Mr Folair. 'It don't take long, does it? 'No, sir, replied Mr Lillyvick, colouring. 'It does not take long. And what then, sir? 'Oh! nothing, said the actor.
'So you said just now, my dear, replied Mr Lillyvick. 'But I hope, said Mrs Kenwigs, drawing herself up, 'that that will not make them proud; but that they will bless their own good fortune, which has born them superior to common people's children. Do you hear, Morleena? 'Yes, ma, replied Miss Kenwigs.
He is gone to that bourne from whence no traveller returns. I hope he is appreciated THERE. So saying Miss Snevellicci's papa rubbed the tip of his nose with a very yellow silk handkerchief, and gave the company to understand that these recollections overcame him. 'Well, Mr Lillyvick, said Nicholas, 'and how are you? 'Quite well, sir, replied the collector.
'It don't take a man long to hang himself, either, eh? ha, ha! Mr Lillyvick laid down his knife and fork, and looked round the table with indignant astonishment. 'To hang himself! repeated Mr Lillyvick. A profound silence came upon all, for Mr Lillyvick was dignified beyond expression. 'To hang himself! cried Mr Lillyvick again.
Miss Green Mr Lillyvick. Mr Lillyvick Miss Petowker of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Very glad to make two public characters acquainted! Mrs Kenwigs, my dear, will you sort the counters?
Unto which Mr Lillyvick replied in a solemn voice, 'Let me be shaved! and again consigning himself to the hands of the journeyman, said no more. This was remarkable behaviour. So remarkable did it seem to Miss Morleena, that that young lady, at the imminent hazard of having her ear sliced off, had not been able to forbear looking round, some score of times, during the foregoing colloquy.
'I shared in that feeling, said Mr Lillyvick: 'perhaps it was natural; perhaps it wasn't. A gentle murmur seemed to say, that, in one of Mr Lillyvick's station, the objection was not only natural, but highly praiseworthy. 'I came round to him in time, said Mr Lillyvick. 'After they were married, and there was no help for it, I was one of the first to say that Kenwigs must be taken notice of.
'Do you consider it a good language, sir? said the collector; 'a pretty language, a sensible language? 'A pretty language, certainly, replied Nicholas; 'and as it has a name for everything, and admits of elegant conversation about everything, I presume it is a sensible one. 'I don't know, said Mr Lillyvick, doubtfully. 'Do you call it a cheerful language, now?
Mr Lillyvick bent forward to pronounce the last word with greater emphasis; and having done so, drew himself up, and frowned and nodded a great many times. 'I say, delicious, repeated Mr Lillyvick. 'Absorbing, fairy-like, toomultuous, and again Mr Lillyvick drew himself up, and again he frowned and nodded. 'Ah! said Nicholas, a little surprised at these symptoms of ecstatic approbation.
I say, I couldn't have done much better if I had been a young man, could I? You couldn't have done much better yourself, could you eh could you? With such inquires, and many more such, Mr Lillyvick jerked his elbow into Nicholas's side, and chuckled till his face became quite purple in the attempt to keep down his satisfaction.
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