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The elder was a man about five-and-fifty, tall and lean, with a wiry frame, dark grizzled hair, and a shaven face. His dress, which was in the style of the country, was very poor, but decent; only his plaid was large and thick, and bright compared with the rest of his apparel: it was a present he had had from his clan-some giving the wool, and others the labour in carding, dyeing, and weaving it.
Lady Kingsland sat breakfasting in her boudoir with her daughter a charming little bijou of a room, all filigree work, and fluted walls, delicious little Greuze paintings, and flowers and perfume and Lady Kingsland, in an exquisitely becoming robe de matin, at five-and-fifty looked fair and handsome, and scarce middle-aged yet.
It was Mrs Meagles who had spoken to Mr Meagles; and Mrs Meagles was, like Mr Meagles, comely and healthy, with a pleasant English face which had been looking at homely things for five-and-fifty years or more, and shone with a bright reflection of them. 'There! Never mind, Father, never mind! said Mrs Meagles. 'For goodness sake content yourself with Pet.
I inquired, one forenoon, when she had neatly arranged the tray containing my chop, wine, etc., by my chair. "Five-and-fifty, love, come September," said Nurse Bundle. "Do people ever marry when they are five-and-fifty, papa?" I asked that evening, as I lay languid and weary on the sofa. "Yes, my dear boy, sometimes. But why do you want to know?"
And now that five-and-fifty years were gone, she spoke of the dead man as if he had been her son or grandson, with a kind of pity for his youth, growing out of her own old age, and an exalting of his strength and manly beauty as compared with her own weakness and decay; and yet she spoke about him as her husband too, and thinking of herself in connexion with him, as she used to be and not as she was now, talked of their meeting in another world, as if he were dead but yesterday, and she, separated from her former self, were thinking of the happiness of that comely girl who seemed to have died with him.
His sister Rebecca tall, erect, with grand lace, in a splendid stiff brocade, and with a fine fan was certainly five-and-fifty, but still wonderfully fresh, and sometimes had quite a pretty little pink colour perfectly genuine in her cheeks; command sat in her eye and energy on her lip but though it was imperious and restless, there was something provokingly likeable and even pleasant in her face.
Servius Tullius superseded the knights of above seven-and-forty years of age from the fatigues of war; Augustus dismissed them at forty-five; though methinks it seems a little unreasonable that men should be sent to the fireside till five-and-fifty or sixty years of age.
Did he see any faint reflection of his own image making a vain-glorious will, whereby five-and-twenty Humbugs, past five-and-fifty years of age, each taking upon himself the name, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, should for ever dine in Bounderby Hall, for ever lodge in Bounderby buildings, for ever attend a Bounderby chapel, for ever go to sleep under a Bounderby chaplain, for ever be supported out of a Bounderby estate, and for ever nauseate all healthy stomachs, with a vast amount of Bounderby balderdash and bluster?
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