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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?"
Cudmore, remained perfectly silent, and apparently terrified. The noise, the din of voices, and the laughing, so completely addled him, that he was like one in a very horrid dream.
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."
"No; never" muttered Cudmore, with a sinking spirit. "Well then why may I ask, were you selected for an office that by your own confession, no one else would stoop to perform? I'll tell you, because from your youth and inexperience, your innocence was deemed a fit victim to the heartless sneers of a cold and unfeeling world." And here Tom broke forth into a very beautiful apostrophe, beginning
Cudmore, may I take the liberty of requesting you would hand me the kettle beside you."
"No; never" muttered Cudmore, with a sinking spirit. "Well then why may I ask, were you selected for an office that by your own confession, no one else would stoop to perform? I'll tell you, because from your youth and inexperience, your innocence was deemed a fit victim to the heartless sneers of a cold and unfeeling world." And here Tom broke forth into a very beautiful apostrophe, beginning
For the uninitiated I have only to add, that "skip" is the Trinity College appellation for servant, which was therefore employed by Mr. Cudmore, on this occasion, as expressing more contemptuously his sense of the degradation of the office attempted to be put upon him. Having already informed my reader on some particulars of the company, I leave him to suppose how Mr.
Did you not hand the kettle from the fire-place, and fill the tea-pot? answer me that!" "I did," said Cudmore, with a voice already becoming tremulous. "Is that the duty of a gentleman? answer me that." A dead pause stood in place of a reply, while Tom proceeded "Did you ever hear any one ask me, or Counsellor Daly, or Mr. Fogarty, or any other person to do so? answer me that."
"Rely upon it, my dear boy," said he, "I have watched over you like a parent; and having partly foreseen that something like this affair of to-night would take place sooner or later" "What affair?" said Cudmore his eyes staring half out of his head. "That business of the kettle." "Kett el. The kettle! What of that?" said Cudmore. "What of it?
Punctual to the time and place, that same evening beheld the injured Cudmore resume his wonted corner, pretty much with the feeling with which a forlorn hope stands match in hand to ignite the train destined to explode with ruin to thousands himself perhaps amongst the number: there he sat with a brain as burning, and a heart as excited, as though, instead of sipping his bohea beside a sea-coal fire, he was that instant trembling beneath the frown of Dr.
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