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"Look'ye," said the alderman, "she shall not have a cage: it would be throwing money away." "I say she shall have a cage," said the lady, "as sure as my name is Sukey Bumble, while I have a crown in my pocket." "Well," said the alderman, "I see I must yield: so I am to get you money to spend in cages.
Bumble's coat as they blew open, and disclosed to great advantage his flapped waistcoat and drab plush knee-breeches. As they drew near to their destination, however, Mr. Bumble thought it expedient to look down, and see that the boy was in good order for inspection by his new master: which he accordingly did, with a fit and becoming air of gracious patronage. 'Oliver! said Mr. Bumble.
'Silence! cried Mr. Bumble, sternly. 'Take yourself downstairs, ma'am. Noah, you shut up the shop; say another word till your master comes home, at your peril; and, when he does come home, tell him that Mr. Bumble said he was to send a old woman's shell after breakfast to-morrow morning. Do you hear sir? Kissing! cried Mr. Bumble, holding up his hands.
He describes Bounderby and Gradgrind with a degree of grimness and sombre hatred very different from the half affectionate derision which he directed against the old tyrants or humbugs of the earlier nineteenth century the pompous Dedlock or the fatuous Nupkins, the grotesque Bumble or the inane Tigg. In those old books his very abuse was benignant; in Hard Times even his sympathy is hard.
"Yes, indeed," said Mrs. Barlow; so the children brought the ingredients, and a fine salad was soon concocted. While this was going on, Miss Allen came running in. "Oh," she exclaimed, "I'm as hungry as a hunter. We've been out sailing, and I've such an appetite. Who is this pretty child?" "This is Patty Fairfield," said Bumble, "my cousin, from the South."
And then by one of those strange freaks of the mind that make people do the most absurd things at the most sacred times mourners laugh at funerals, and soldiers in the thick of battles long for puddings he began to say over that old doggerel which he used to repeat when shivering on the spring-board over the cold waters of the Hudson river: "One, two, three, the bumble bee, The rooster crows and away she goes!"
'Do my hi's deceive me! cried Mr. Bumble, with ill-feigned enthusiasm, 'or is that little Oliver? Oh O-li-ver, if you know'd how I've been a-grieving for you 'Hold your tongue, fool, murmured Mrs. Bumble. 'Isn't natur, natur, Mrs. Bumble? remonstrated the workhouse master.
At the instant he plunged into the water King Bumble happened to approach, and while Ailie stood, petrified with fear as she saw Glynn struggling violently at the bottom of the pool, her sable companion stood looking down with a grin from ear to ear that displayed every one of his white teeth. "Don't be 'fraid, Missie Ally," said the negro; "him's know wot him's doin', ho yis!"
Bumble felt, every now and then, a powerful inducement, which he could not resist, to steal a look at the stranger: and that whenever he did so, he withdrew his eyes, in some confusion, to find that the stranger was at that moment stealing a look at him. Mr.
Business first, and pleasure, if ye can get it, arterwards them's my notions, Nip Nip Nippi what's your name?" "Coo Tumble, I think," suggested Briant. "Ay, Nippiloo Bumble wot a jaw-breaker! so git along, old boy."
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