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A love of fine clothes he shared with all the best of his kind, and he visited Mr Bilger the jeweller who arrested him magnificently arrayed. He wore a black coat and waistcoat, blue pantaloons, Hessian boots, and a hat 'in the extreme of the newest fashion. He was also resplendent with gold watch and eye-glass. His hair was powdered, and a fawney sparkled on his dexter fam.
Sometimes there would also be two Christian cousins to swell our party, and sometimes there would be a raid of the Fawney children with a detestable governess who was perpetually vociferating reproaches, but these latter were absent-minded, lax young persons, and we did not greatly love them. It is curious how little I remember of Mary's childhood.
I was up at the House perhaps every other day; we young people were supposed to be all in a company together down by the tennis lawns, but indeed we dispersed and came and went by a kind of tacit understanding, Guy and Philip each with one of the Fawney girls and I with Mary.
Afterwards as she moved about she gave me other instructions, and for the most part I wrote to her in envelopes addressed for her by one of the Fawney girls, who was under her spell and made no enquiry for what purpose these envelopes were needed. To me of course Mary wrote without restraint.
Bravo! the best cly-faker of 'em all couldn't have done it better. And now for the fawney the ring I mean. I'm no great judge of these articles, Ma'am; but I trust to your honour not to palm off paste upon me." "It is a diamond," said the lady, in an agony of distress, "the child!" "A diamond! Here, take the kid," cried Blueskin, slipping the infant adroitly under her scarf.
This kept us turning towards the other tables and when my information failed she would call upon Sir Godfrey Klavier, who was explaining, rather testily on account of her interruptions, to Philip Christian and a little lady in black and the elder Fawney girl just why he didn't believe Lady Ladislaw's new golf course would succeed.
He was dressed in a superb suit of black; a diamond fawney flashed upon his finger; his light tie-periwig was worth no less than seven pounds; pistols, tortoise-shell snuff-boxes, and golden guineas jostled one another in his pockets. Thus, in brazen magnificence, he marched down Drury Lane on a certain Saturday night in November 1724.
I'll tell you a game that you might try now and again as you have a chance, and that is 'fawney dropping, you know 'fawney' means a ring. Well, you must have a 'pal, and give him a 'snyde' ring with a ticket and the price marked on it.
I took things that she handed me with an appearance of supreme indifference, was politely attentive to the elder Miss Fawney, and engaged with Lady Ladislaw and the horsey little man in brown in a discussion of the possibility of mechanical vehicles upon the high road. That was in the early nineties. We were all of opinion that it was impossible to make a sufficiently light engine for the purpose.
I see, for instance, old Fawney stealing round the rooms of the Club, with glassy, meaningless eyes, and an endless greasy simper he fawns on everybody he meets, and shakes hands with you, and blesses you, and betrays the most tender and astonishing interest in your welfare. You know him to be a quack and a rogue, and he knows you know it.
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