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'Then we expect you, retorts the charmer, 'to sustain your reputation, and tell us something else. 'Lady Tippins, I exhausted myself for life that day, and there is nothing more to be got out of me.
Mrs Veneering faintly remarks, as dinner opens, that many such days would be too much for her. 'Many such days would be too much for all of us, says Podsnap; 'but we'll bring him in! 'We'll bring him in, says Lady Tippins, sportively waving her green fan. 'Veneering for ever! 'We'll bring him in! says Twemlow. 'We'll bring him in! say Boots and Brewer.
To whom, add Mortimer Lightwood, coming in among them with a reassumption of his old languid air, founded on Eugene, and belonging to the days when he told the story of the man from Somewhere. That fresh fairy, Tippins, all but screams at sight of her false swain. She summons the deserter to her with her fan; but the deserter, predetermined not to come, talks Britain with Podsnap.
One of the Fathers says, 'Gaming table. Another of the Fathers says, 'Speculated without knowing that speculation is a science. Boots says 'Horses. Lady Tippins says to her fan, 'Two establishments. Mr Podsnap, saying nothing, is referred to for his opinion; which he delivers as follows; much flushed and extremely angry: 'Don't ask me.
Lightwood, Boots, and Brewer, flutter like moths around that yellow wax candle guttering down, and with some hint of a winding-sheet in it Lady Tippins. Outsiders cultivate Veneering, M P., and Mrs Veneering, W.M.P. Lammle stands with folded arms, Mephistophelean in a corner, with Georgiana and Fledgeby.
Lady Tippins rises to go, and Mrs Veneering follows her leader. For the moment, Mrs Lammle does not turn to them, but remains looking at Twemlow looking at Alfred's portrait through his eyeglass. The moment past, Twemlow drops his eyeglass at its ribbon's length, rises, and closes the book with an emphasis which makes that fragile nursling of the fairies, Tippins, start.
Old Hawkins was too lazy to play at cricket; he sauntered all day in the sunshine about the green, accompanied by little Tippins, who was in the sixth form, laughed and joked at Hawkins eternally, and was the person who wrote all his exercises. Instead of going into town this afternoon, Hawkins remained at Slaughter House, to see the great fight between the second and third cocks.
And this snort being regular in its reproduction, at length comes to be expected by the company, who make embarrassing pauses when it is falling due, and by waiting for it, render it more emphatic when it comes. The stoney aunt has likewise an injurious way of rejecting all dishes whereof Lady Tippins partakes: saying aloud when they are proffered to her, 'No, no, no, not for me.
It is hidden with great pains, but it is in him. The gloomy Eugene too, is not without some kindred touch; for, when that appalling Lady Tippins declares that if Another had survived, he should have gone down at the head of her list of lovers and also when the mature young lady shrugs her epaulettes, and laughs at some private and confidential comment from the mature young gentleman his gloom deepens to that degree that he trifles quite ferociously with his dessert-knife.
In a pause of mastication and deglutition, Lady Tippins, contemplating Mortimer, recalls that it was at our dear Veneerings, and in the presence of a party who are surely all here, that he told them his story of the man from somewhere, which afterwards became so horribly interesting and vulgarly popular. 'Yes, Lady Tippins, assents Mortimer; 'as they say on the stage, "Even so!"
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