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He had come to like the old house; it had become a home to him now. He liked Miss Husted, too, though she made him the repository for all her troubles, and then there were Fico, and Pinac and Jenny he really loved Jenny. His little world was all in Houston Street and he made up his mind not to leave it, even if the location made the getting of pupils harder.
"What is it, Anton?" asked Fico gently, "you are worried, anxious!" "You are in trouble, Anton," said Pinac, taking Von Barwig's hand. "Come confide in your friends; they help you." Von Barwig forced a laugh. "I troubled? Why, no, no! I have been to a wedding; a happy wedding, a smiling bride, a fine fellow of a bridegroom. A few tears, yes; but happy, happy tears! Come, come, long faces!
"But I asked you!" said Pinac. "He ask you," repeated Fico. "I ask you; we all ask you," asserted Pinac. "In my apartment!" demanded Von Barwig, with some slight show of dignity. "Come, come! The matter is settled. It is good to have old friends at the table. We won't go to the restaurant; it's too noisy there; we shall dine here.
A fico for you, madam," said the most undutiful of great-great-grandsons. Let us leave him to his roseate meditations. Questionless, in the woman he loved there was much of his own invention: but the circumstance is not unhackneyed; and Colonel Musgrave was in a decorous fashion the happiest of living persons.
"This was not exactly my meaning," said the boy, dryly. "'A fico for your meaning, as the Swan says. Hallo, you sir! Bully Host, clear the table fresh tumblers hot water sugar lemon and The bottle's out! Smoke, sir?" and Mr. Peacock offered me a cigar.
Another thing in my favour is, that my contemporaries steal too openly. Mr. Smith has inserted in Brambletye House whole pages from Defoe's Fire and Plague of London. "Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase Convey, the wise it call!" When I convey an incident or so, I am at as much pains to avoid detection as if the offence could be indicted in literal fact at the Old Bailey.
This secret was originally Miss Husted's, but after she had begged Pinac to tell Poons not to behave like a moon-calf, had asked Fico to prevent the young German from sighing audibly whenever he saw Jenny, and had finally told Von Barwig she wouldn't keep Poons in the house at any price, everybody in the house began to suspect something.
She is very happy, very happy; and I am happy that she is happy I must always remember that." "Remember what?" inquired Fico after a pause. "Always remember that this is a happy moment and that I must live on it. This moment is my future; it is all I have to live on. The wedding day of my pupil is the sum and end of all for me." "Was it a fine wedding, Anton?" asked Pinac gently.
With him tradition was strong; the old man was still Herr Von Barwig, the great Leipsic Gewandhaus Concert conductor, with whom his father had had the honour of playing first horn. The boy's mother had instilled this into his very soul. "Why, Great Scott! Look at him! Where have you been? Ma foi, you look like a wedding; oh, Fico?" and Pinac pointed to Von Barwig.
"Tell your aunt we shall want one of her bedrooms on the top floor if it is at liberty." "The one next to Mr. Pinac is empty. Aunt will be so pleased that a friend of yours is going to take it." And Jenny rushed off to acquaint her aunt with the good news. Von Barwig told the news of the impending arrival of his friend's son to Pinac and Fico, and the three men went down to the docks to meet him.
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