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Updated: June 29, 2025
It's not for me to boast of any family with which I have the honour to be connected; at the same time, Mrs Kenwigs's is I should say, said Mr Kenwigs, abruptly, and raising his voice as he spoke, 'that my children might come into a matter of a hundred pound apiece, perhaps. Perhaps more, but certainly that. 'And a very pretty little fortune, said the married lady.
'It was only my joke, said the friend, abashed. 'George, rejoined Mr Kenwigs, 'a joke is a wery good thing a wery good thing but when that joke is made at the expense of Mrs Kenwigs's feelings, I set my face against it. A man in public life expects to be sneered at it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of himself.
Reassured by this cheering intelligence, the company in some degree recovered from their fears, which had been productive of some most singular instances of a total want of presence of mind; thus, the bachelor friend had, for a long time, supported in his arms Mrs Kenwigs's sister, instead of Mrs Kenwigs; and the worthy Mr Lillyvick had been actually seen, in the perturbation of his spirits, to kiss Miss Petowker several times, behind the room-door, as calmly as if nothing distressing were going forward.
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