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Updated: July 1, 2025
"Ay," whispered the landlady, as the door closed after the waiter and the tarts, "there are customers enough, I warrant, for you in that room, if you had but the luck to be called in. Pray, what would you have the conscience, I wonder now, to charge me for these here half-dozen little mats to put under my dishes?" "A trifle, ma'am," said the basket-woman.
"If the water has reached the smoking-gallery," said Janki, "all the Company's pumps can do nothing for three days." "It is very hot," moaned Jasoda, the Meah basket-woman. "There is a very bad air here because of the lamps." "Put them out," said Janki; "why do you want lamps?" The lamps were put out and the company sat still in the utter dark.
"Dycer resumed, 'Seven ten for Mr. Moriarty. Going for seven ten a cruel sacrifice there's action for you playful beast. Here the devil had stumbled and nearly killed a basket-woman with two children. "'Eight, said I, with a loud voice.
You are famous for larks at Dunstable; and I make it a rule to taste the best of everything wherever I go; and, waiter, let me have a bottle of claret. Do you hear?" "Larks and claret for his supper," said the basket-woman to herself, as she looked at him from head to foot. The postillion was still waiting, as if to speak to him; and she observed them afterwards whispering and laughing together.
"Coming, ma'am," answered the waiter; and with a large dish of tarts and puffs, the waiter came from the bar; the landlady threw open the door of the best parlour, to let him in; and the basket-woman had now a full view of a large cheerful company, and amongst them several children, sitting round a supper-table.
"Miss! ma'am! sir!" said the basket-woman, "if it would not be impertinent, may I speak a word? A little boy and girl have just been here inquiring for a gentleman who gave them a guinea instead of a halfpenny by mistake; and not five minutes ago I saw the boy give the guinea to a gentleman's servant, who is there without, and who said his master desired it should be returned to him."
But we have no such design of imposing on our reader; and therefore those who object to the heathen theology, may, if they please, change our goddess into the above-mentioned basket-woman. Our intention, in short, is to introduce our heroine with the utmost solemnity in our power, with an elevation of stile, and all other circumstances proper to raise the veneration of our reader.
"There must be some mistake, or some trick in this," said the gentleman. "Are the children gone? I must see them send after them." "I'll go for them myself," said the good natured basket-woman; "I bid them wait in the street yonder, for my mind misgave me that the man who spoke so short to them was a cheat, with his larks and his claret."
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