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Jogglebury's management especially as the guest was of her own seeking to know that she would make up a tolerable dinner. Nor was he out of his reckoning, for at half-past five Bartholomew announced dinner, when in sailed Mrs. Crowdey fresh from the composition of it and from the becoming revision of her own dress.
As luck would have it, he fell in with a groom travelling a horse to hunt with Sir Harry Scattercash's hounds, which, he said, met at Snobston Green, some eight or nine miles off, the next day, and whither Mr. Sponge decided on going. Mr. Jogglebury's equanimity returning at dinner time, Mr.
Jogglebury's ardour, and made her more anxious that Sponge should not lose a word of it. Accordingly she gave the fat dumpling another jerk up on her arm, and repeated: 'O ho! bother Ichard, the What's very high? asked Mrs. Jogglebury coaxingly. 'Sun's very high, replied the child. 'Yes, my darling! exclaimed the delighted mamma. Mrs.
Jogglebury's black eyes brightened with delight as she ran forward to meet him; and in her mind's eye she saw him inheriting a splendid mansion, with a retinue of powdered footmen in pea-green liveries and broad gold-laced hats. Great prospectively great, at least as had been her successes in the sponsor line with her other children, she really thought, getting Mr.
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