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This brief explanation over, the infant, who, as he was christened after the collector! rejoiced in the names of Lillyvick Kenwigs, was partially suffocated under the caresses of the audience, and squeezed to his mother's bosom, until he roared again.
'It is a mere nothing, said Nicholas, returning to Mrs Kenwigs; 'the little girl, who was watching the child, being tired I suppose, fell asleep, and set her hair on fire. 'Oh you malicious little wretch! cried Mrs Kenwigs, impressively shaking her forefinger at the small unfortunate, who might be thirteen years old, and was looking on with a singed head and a frightened face.
'She will be a treasure to the man she marries, sir, said Mr Kenwigs, half aside; 'I think she'll marry above her station, Mr Lumbey. 'I shouldn't wonder at all, replied the doctor. 'You never see her dance, sir, did you? asked Mr Kenwigs. The doctor shook his head. 'Ay! said Mr Kenwigs, as though he pitied him from his heart, 'then you don't know what she's capable of.
'Which, unless I am very much mistaken, observed Mrs Kenwigs in making the proposition, 'will not be very long; for such clever children, Mr Noggs, never were born into this world, I do believe. 'There, said Newman, 'that's all. It's beneath you, I know; but I thought that perhaps you might 'Might! cried Nicholas, with great alacrity; 'of course I shall. I accept the offer at once.
Mrs Kenwigs, too, was quite a lady in her manners, and of a very genteel family, having an uncle who collected a water-rate; besides which distinction, the two eldest of her little girls went twice a week to a dancing school in the neighbourhood, and had flaxen hair, tied with blue ribbons, hanging in luxuriant pigtails down their backs; and wore little white trousers with frills round the ankles for all of which reasons, and many more equally valid but too numerous to mention, Mrs Kenwigs was considered a very desirable person to know, and was the constant theme of all the gossips in the street, and even three or four doors round the corner at both ends.
Kenwigs rushed wildly in, and bringing them out in his arms, by two and two, tumbled them down in their night-caps and gowns at the feet of Mr. Lillyvick, and called upon them to thank and bless him. And this wonderful domestic scene, this family reconciliation was brought about by Miss Morleena, eldest of the four little Kenwigses, with the flaxen tails!
'I shared in that feeling, said Mr Lillyvick: 'perhaps it was natural; perhaps it wasn't. A gentle murmur seemed to say, that, in one of Mr Lillyvick's station, the objection was not only natural, but highly praiseworthy. 'I came round to him in time, said Mr Lillyvick. 'After they were married, and there was no help for it, I was one of the first to say that Kenwigs must be taken notice of.
Kenwigs herself darted forward and kissed the collector, and all was forgiven and forgotten. No further wave of trouble ruffled the feelings of the party until suddenly there came shrill and piercing screams from an upper room in which the infant Kenwigs was enshrined, guarded by a small girl hired for the purpose. Rushing to the door, Mrs.
Kenwigs, and the four olive Kenwigses, and the baby, were considered quite important persons to know. Upon the eighth anniversary of Mrs. Kenwigs' marriage to Mr. Kenwigs, they entertained a select party of friends, and on that occasion, after supper had been served, the group gathered by the fireside; Mr.
'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.
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