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She then said to him, loud enough for all to hear, "You must tell them it was your fault. Oh, the humiliation!" Here she burst out again, with her handkerchief to her eyes, and Mrs. Abbert soothingly said, "Oh, never mind him, my dear. I wouldn't mind him!" This was growing invidious, and all the gentlemen at the bottom of the table were looking scornfully at him.
The gentleman answered more quietly, with a careful look at the house, where Mr. Griffin awaited him on the porch, "Very well, driver;" and also swept in, and was introduced to Fred as Mr. Abbert. Now came a pair who walked, and were addressed and handed around by the host as "My dear friends, Mr. and Mrs.
But now the bell was rung by Superannuated, who had duly inserted the chair, and Mr. Abbert, receiving the hostess from the arm of her husband and in turn delivering his smiling wife to Mr. Griffin, led off the throng to dinner. When they arrived at the protruding table, by a preconcerted arrangement Mrs. Griffin handed Mr.
Abbert to the one side and squeezed herself through the other an action which was imitated by the rest of the company, who were finally seated close up to the door all but Mr. Griffin, who was to occupy the extra chair, and, as he was already inside, and there was no other means of exit, he was obliged to pass through the kitchen and around the house.
Griffin then, in desperation, explained the whole matter, how he had left the card for David Dubbs, and paid for the turkey, and come unsuspectingly home. "As," he added, "I have done year after year, for " Here Mrs. Griffin checked him with symptoms of another faint, and he stopped short. Mr. Abbert then said it was all that rascally clerk, and he ought to be discharged at once.
"She's fainted!" and confused screams of the ladies came from all sides. Mrs. Dripps passed along her salts bottle. Mrs. Abbert held Mrs. Griffin's head, and Fred applied water. Under the strong influence of these restoratives she soon revived, and whispered to her husband something which caused him also to start and look despairingly at her.
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