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Clanfrizzle again essayed, and by a little masonic movement of her hand to the tea-pot, and a sly glance at the hob, intimated her wish still hopelessly; at last there was nothing for it but speaking; and she donned her very softest voice, and most persuasive tone, saying "Mr. Cudmore, I am really very troublesome: will you permit me to ask you?"
Pleasant people, thought I, these must be, with whom such a line is advisable, much less practicable. "Mrs. Clanfrizzle, my friend Mr. Lorrequer; thinks he'll stay the summer in town. Mrs. Clan , should like him to be one of us." This latter was said sotto voce, and was a practice he continued to adopt in presenting me to his several friends through the room.
Clanfrizzle, nothing but an olive-coloured deposit of soft matter, closely analogous in appearance and chemical property to the residuary precipitate in a drained fish-pond; she put down the lid with a gentle sigh and turning towards the fire bestowed one of her very blandest and most captivating looks on Mr. Cudmore, saying as plainly as looks could say "Cudmore, you're wanting."
Clanfrizzle again essayed, and by a little masonic movement of her hand to the tea-pot, and a sly glance at the hob, intimated her wish still hopelessly; at last there was nothing for it but speaking; and she donned her very softest voice, and most persuasive tone, saying "Mr. Cudmore, I am really very troublesome: will you permit me to ask you?"
Cudmore, but the life I have been speaking of, I may as well relate it. Soon after Mr. Cudmore's enlistment under the banners of the Clanfrizzle, he had sought and found an asylum in the drawing-room of the establishment, which promised, from its geographical relations, to expose him less to the molestations of conversation than most other parts of the room.
Mrs. Clanfrizzle screamed the old ladies accompanied her the young ones tittered the men laughed and, in a word, poor Cudmore, perfectly unconscious of any thing extraordinary, felt himself the admired of all admirers, very little, it is true, to his own satisfaction.
Pleasant people, thought I, these must be, with whom such a line is advisable, much less practicable. "Mrs. Clanfrizzle, my friend Mr. Lorrequer; thinks he'll stay the summer in town. Mrs. Clan , should like him to be one of us." This latter was said sotto voce, and was a practice he continued to adopt in presenting me to his several friends through the room.
Clanfrizzle, nothing but an olive-coloured deposit of soft matter, closely analogous in appearance and chemical property to the residuary precipitate in a drained fish-pond; she put down the lid with a gentle sigh and turning towards the fire bestowed one of her very blandest and most captivating looks on Mr. Cudmore, saying as plainly as looks could say "Cudmore, you're wanting."
Mrs. Clanfrizzle screamed the old ladies accompanied her the young ones tittered the men laughed and, in a word, poor Cudmore, perfectly unconscious of any thing extraordinary, felt himself the admired of all admirers, very little, it is true, to his own satisfaction.
Cudmore, but the life I have been speaking of, I may as well relate it. Soon after Mr. Cudmore's enlistment under the banners of the Clanfrizzle, he had sought and found an asylum in the drawing-room of the establishment, which promised, from its geographical relations, to expose him less to the molestations of conversation than most other parts of the room.
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