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Chickerel, 'because of her lofty position, which has its juties. Well, as I always say, Berta doesn't take after me. I couldn't have married the man even though he did bring a coronet with him. 'I shouldn't have cared to let him ask ye, said Chickerel. 'However, that's neither here nor there all ended better than I expected. He's fond of her.
He entered by a swing gate, on which 'Firtop' was painted, and a maid-servant showed him into a neatly- furnished room, containing Mr. Chickerel, Mrs. Chickerel, and Picotee, the matron being reclined on a couch, which improved health had permitted her to substitute for a bed.
It is such men as these that provoke the contempt we get. Well, thank God a few years will see the end of me, for I am growing ashamed of my company so different as they are to the servants of old times. Your affectionate father, R. CHICKEREL. 'P.S. Do not press Lady Petherwin any further to remove the rules on which you live with her.
Presently a man came out in a great-coat and with a small bag in his hand; Neigh at once recognizing the person as Chickerel, went up to him. 'Mr. Doncastle tells me you are going on a sudden journey. At what time does your train leave? Neigh asked. 'I go by the ten o'clock, sir: I hope it is a third-class, said Chickerel; 'though I am afraid it may not be.
When she first came, my hair was getting quite weak; but by brushing it every day in a peculiar manner, and treating it as only she knew how, she brought it into splendid condition. 'Well, this is the devil to pay, upon my life! said Mr. Chickerel, with a miserable gaze at the bundle of clothes and the general situation at the same time.
'What a funny thing! said the lady, with a wretchedly factitious smile. 'The times have taken a strange turn when the angry parent of the comedy, who goes post-haste to prevent the undutiful daughter's rash marriage, is a gentleman from below stairs, and the unworthy lover a peer of the realm! Neigh spoke for almost the first time. 'I don't blame Chickerel in objecting to Lord Mountclere.
Dinner was almost over by this time, and when they entered the front drawing-room a young man-servant and maid were there rekindling the lights. 'Now let's have a game of cat-and-mice, said the maid-servant cheerily. 'There's plenty of time before they come up. 'Agreed, said Menlove promptly. 'You will play, will you not, Miss Chickerel? 'No, indeed, said Picotee, aghast.
'We will decide that Chickerel is even a better trained fellow than if he had shown no interest at all in his face. 'The action being like those trifling irregularities in art at its vigorous periods, which seemed designed to hide the unpleasant monotony of absolute symmetry, said Ladywell.
It was a case in which the appetite for a jest would overpower the sting of conscience in any well-constituted being that, my dear, I must maintain. 'I say she should not have come! answered Mrs. Doncastle firmly. 'Of course I shall dismiss Chickerel. 'Of course you will do no such thing. I have never had a butler in the house before who suited me so well.
He has shown me a letter which has just reached him from his son on the same subject. Lord Mountclere's brother and this young man have actually gone off together to try to prevent the wedding, and Chickerel has asked to be allowed to go himself, if he can get soon enough to the station to catch the night mail. Of course he may go if he wishes.
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