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Here, at a stroke, and before entering the house, he had the whole neighbourhood about him: he could feel that he and Nataly stood in the minds of the worthy people variously with the brightness if not with the warmth distinguishable in the bosom of Beaves Urmsing the idea of whom gave Lakelands an immediate hearth-glow. Armandine was thirteen minutes, by his watch, behind the time she had named.
'The invitation at last, for to-morrow, Sunday, four P.M. Odd, that next day at eight of the evening I shall be addressing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, Tory though he is. Those Tories are jollier fellows than well, no wonder! There will be no surgical . . . the poor woman is very low. A couple of days at the outside. Of course, I go.
'Hem'd fool I am to keep appointments! he muttered. She reproved him: 'Fie, Mr. Urmsing; it's the making of them, not the keeping! 'Ah, my dear ma'am, if I'd had Blathenoy's luck when he made a certain appointment. And he was not so much older than me? The old ones get the prizes! Mr. Beaves Urmsing prompted Colonel Corfe to laugh in triumph.
Then she turned to a fresh satellite, a round and a ruddy, 'at her service ever, Mr. Beaves Urmsing, and repeated Fenellan's words. He, in unfeigned wonderment at such unsuspected powers, cried: 'Dear me! and stared at the little man, making the pretty lady's face a twinkling dew. He had missed the Concert. Was it first-rate? Ecstasy answered in the female voice.
Mr. Beaves Urmsing puffed with wrath at the fellow. Five minutes later, in the midst of the group surrounding and felicitating Victor, he had sight of Fenellan conversing with fair ones, and it struck a light in him; he went three steps backward, with shouts. 'Dam funny fellow! eh? who is he? I must have that man at my table. Worth fifty Colonel Jackasses!
'The invitation at last, for to-morrow, Sunday, four P.M. Odd, that next day at eight of the evening I shall be addressing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, Tory though he is. Those Tories are jollier fellows than well, no wonder! There will be no surgical... the poor woman is very low. A couple of days at the outside. Of course, I go.
'And the mother lived? said Fenellan. Mr. Beaves Urmsing puffed with wrath at the fellow. Five minutes later, in the midst of the group surrounding and felicitating Victor, he had sight of Fenellan conversing with fair ones, and it struck a light in him; he went three steps backward, with shouts. 'Dam funny fellow! eh? who is he? I must have that man at my table. Worth fifty Colonel Jackasses!
Beaves Urmsing grew courtly of the olden time. He spied Colonel Corfe anew, and 'Donkey! rose to split the roar at his mouth, and full of his anecdote, he pursued some congenial acquaintances, crying to his host: 'Wednesday, mind! eh? by George, your friend's gizzarded me for the day!
A second glimpse of Fenellan agitated the anecdote, as he called it, seizing Victor's arm, to have him out of earshot of the ladies. Delivery, not without its throes, was accomplished, but imperfectly, owing to sympathetic convulsions, under which Mr. Beaves Urmsing's countenance was crinkled of many colours, as we see the Spring rhubarb-leaf.
The colonel's eyebrows were up in fixity over sleepy lids. He brightened to propose the conducting of the pretty woman to the banquet. 'We shall see them going in, said she. 'Mr. Radnor has a French cook, who does wonders. But I heard him asking for Mr. Beaves Urmsing. I'm sure he expected The Marigolds at his Concert.
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