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Pempton knew something of this quaint Squire of Hefferstone, Beaves Urmsing by name; a ruddy man, right heartily Saxon; a still glowing brand amid the ashes of the Heptarchy hearthstone; who had a song, The Marigolds, which he would troll out for you anywhere, on any occasion. To have so near to the metropolis one from the centre of the venerable rotundity of the country, was rare.
When finally they reached the stage, they spied at Nesta's box, during the thunder of the rounds of applause, after shaking hands with Mr. Dubbleson, Sir Abraham Quatley, Dudley Sowerby, and others; and with Beaves Urmsing a politician 'never of the opposite party to a deuce of a funny fellow! go anywhere to hear him, he vowed.
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.
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!
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.
Beaves Urmsing brutally addressed the colonel, 'that you were at Eton when . . . why, what age do you give the poor woman, then! He bellowed, 'Eh? as it were a bull crowing. The colonel retreated to one of his defensive corners. 'I am not aware that I meant to tell you anything. Mr. Beaves Urmsing turned square-breasted on Fenellan: 'Fellow's a born donkey!
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