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And this is my house; and I shall be obliged if you'll kindly put on the ones, and walk out of the other at once!" Bella burst into tears, and demanded from Mr. Jauncy why he had brought her there to be insulted. "You brought it all on yourself," he said, gloomily; "you should have behaved!" "What have I done," cried Bella, "to be told to go, as if I wasn't fit to stay?"
At the other end of the carriage, Bella had been suggesting that the gardens might be closed so late in the year, and regretting that they had not chosen the new melodrama at the Adelphi instead; which caused Jauncy to draw glowing pictures of the attractions of Rosherwich Gardens.
So they went in; Jauncy leading the way with the still complaining Bella, and Leander Tweddle bringing up the rear with Ada. They picked their way as well as they could in the darkness, caused by the closely planted trees and shrubs, down a winding path, where the sopped leaves gave a slippery foothold, and the branches flicked moisture insultingly in their faces as they pushed them aside.
Ada don't look as if she'd been breaking her heart for you!" "You never can tell with women," said the hairdresser, sententiously; "and meeting me sudden, and learning it could never be no one can say how she mightn't take it!" "I call it too bad!" exclaimed Jauncy.
He is accustoming his clients to address him as "Professor" a title which he has actually had conferred upon him from a quarter in which he is, perhaps, the most highly appreciated for prosperity has not exactly lessened his self-esteem. Mr. Jauncy, too, is a married man, although he does not respond so heartily to congratulations.
"Secrets, Ada?" cried her sister; "upon my word!" "Why, where's the harm, Mr. Tweddle, now it's all settled?" exclaimed Ada. "Hullo, Tweddle!" cried Jauncy, in some bewilderment. Leander could only cast a look of miserable appeal at him. "Shall I tell them any more, Mr. Tweddle?" said Ada, persistently. "I don't think there's any necessity," he pleaded. "No more do I," put in Bella, archly.
His eyes were rather small, and his nose had a decided upward tendency; but, with his pink-and-white complexion and compact well-made figure, he was far from ill-looking, though he thought himself even farther. "Well, Jauncy," he said, after the first greetings, "so you haven't forgot our appointment?" "Why, no," explained his friend; "but I never thought I should get away in time to keep it.
I've been so absorbed in the laborrit'ry, what with three rejuvenators and an elixir all on the simmer together, I almost gave way under the strain of it; but they're set to cool now, and I'm ready to go as soon as you please." "Now," said Jauncy, briskly, as they left the shop together, "if we're to get up to Rosherwich Gardens to-night, we mustn't dawdle."
"Do you mean that my Bella and her sister are not good enough company for you?" demanded Jauncy. "You were a shop-assistant yourself, Tweddle, only a short while ago!" "I know that, James, I know; and it isn't that far from it. I'm sure they are two as respectable girls, and quite the ladies in every respect, as I'd wish to meet. Only the fact is "
Jauncy, nobody else being able to utter a word, "we drink and reciprocate." Leander was saved for the moment, and the dinner passed without further incident. But his aunt's vein of sentiment had been opened, and could not be staunched all at once; for when the cloth was removed, and the decanters and dishes of oranges placed upon the table, she gave a little preparatory cough and began again.
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