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I thought it my duty to hint at the discomfort my aunt would sustain, from living in a continual state of guerilla warfare with Mrs. Crupp; but she disposed of that objection summarily by declaring that, on the first demonstration of hostilities, she was prepared to astonish Mrs. Crupp for the whole remainder of her natural life.
Crupp, of late the bold, became within a few days so faint-hearted, that rather than encounter my aunt upon the staircase, she would endeavour to hide her portly form behind doors leaving visible, however, a wide margin of flannel petticoat or would shrink into dark corners.
Crupp, in confidence. 'And smoke. 'Smoke? You don't mean chimneys? said my aunt. 'No, ma'am, returned Mrs. Crupp. 'Cigars and pipes. 'That's not catching, Trot, at any rate, remarked my aunt, turning to me. 'No, indeed, said I. In short, my aunt, seeing how enraptured I was with the premises, took them for a month, with leave to remain for twelve months when that time was out. Mrs.
I had a new pride in my rooms after his approval of them, and burned with a desire to develop their utmost resources. I therefore made him promise positively in the names of his two friends, and we appointed six o'clock as the dinner-hour. When he was gone, I rang for Mrs. Crupp, and acquainted her with my desperate design. Mrs.
Crupp consented to achieve this feat, on condition that I dined from home for a fortnight afterwards. And here I may remark, that what I underwent from Mrs. Crupp, in consequence of the tyranny she established over me, was dreadful. I never was so much afraid of anyone. We made a compromise of everything.
Crupp, Trotwood Copperfield found his lodgings when he began his new life with Spenlow and Jorkins. These chambers, once the home of Clarkson Stanfield, and since of Mr. William Black and of Dr. B. E. Martin, became, in later days, very familiar to The Boy, and still are haunted by the great crowd of the ghosts of the past.
'I can't abear to see you so, sir: I'm a mother myself. I did not quite perceive the application of this fact to myself, but I smiled on Mrs. Crupp, as benignly as was in my power. 'Come, sir, said Mrs. Crupp. 'Excuse me. I know what it is, sir. There's a lady in the case. 'Mrs. Crupp? I returned, reddening. 'Oh, bless you! Keep a good heart, sir! said Mrs. Crupp, nodding encouragement.
This was a delightful hearing. I told him if he waited for that, he would have to wait till doomsday. 'But you shall have some breakfast! said I, with my hand on the bell-rope, 'and Mrs. Crupp shall make you some fresh coffee, and I'll toast you some bacon in a bachelor's Dutch-oven, that I have got here. 'No, no! said Steerforth. 'Don't ring! I can't!
Her fluttered reply showed this at the very commencement, in answer to an inquiry as to whether she remembered one particular morning in July last, when Mrs. Bar-dell was dusting Pickwick's apartment. "Yes, my lord and jury, I do." "Was that sitting-room the first-floor front?" "Yes, it were, sir" something in the manner of Mrs. Crupp when at her faintest.
Crupp, after some difficulty, consented to warm up; and it shrunk so much in a liquid state, that we found it what Steerforth called 'rather a tight fit' for four. These preparations happily completed, I bought a little dessert in Covent Garden Market, and gave a rather extensive order at a retail wine-merchant's in that vicinity.
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