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You shall have him in joints, and eat him at home";-ha! ha! 'Just like him! said Grossby, with true enjoyment of the princely disposition that had dictated the patriotic order. 'Oh! there! Kilne emphasized, pushing out his arm across the bar, as much as to say, that in anything of such a kind, the great Mel never had a rival. 'That "Marquis" affair changed him a bit, said Barnes.
Kilne angrily declared, that in his opinion, a man who rejected medicine in extremity, ought to have it forced down his throat: and considering that the invalid was pretty deeply in Kilne's debt, it naturally assumed the form of a dishonest act on his part; but Sally scornfully dared any one to lay hand on her master, even for his own good.
They took me for one at Squire Uplift's to-night, but a man who wishes to pass off for more than he is, Kilne, and impose upon people, he says, "he's contemptible, Kilne! contemptible!" So that, you know, set me thinking about "Bath" and the "Marquis," and I couldn't help smiling to myself, and just let slip a question whether he had enlightened them a bit.
'Now, there 's a man! Kilne stuck his hands in his pockets and began his meditation: which, however, was cut short by the approach of his neighbour Barnes, the butcher, to whom he confided what he had heard, and who ejaculated professionally, 'Obstinate as a pig! As they stood together they beheld Sally, a figure of telegraph, at one of the windows, implying that all was just over.
Kilne muttered: 'Can't say! and Grossby, a kindly creature in his way, albeit a creditor, reverting to the first subject of their discourse, ejaculated, 'But what a one he was! eh? 'Fine! to look on, Kilne assented. 'Well, he was like a Marquis, said Barnes. Here the three regarded each other, and laughed, though not loudly.
Kilne, my good fellow!" and I, wishing to be equal with him, says, "A fine night, my lord!" and he draws himself up he smelt of good company says he, "Kilne! I'm not a lord, as you know, and you have no excuse for mistaking me for one, sir!" So I pretended I had mistaken him, and then he tucked his arm under mine, and said, "You're no worse than your betters, Kilne.
'Here's to him, poor fellow! said Kilne; and was deliberately echoed twice. 'Now, it wasn't that, Kilne pursued, pointing to the bottle in the midst of a smacking of lips, 'that wasn't what got him into difficulties. It was expensive luckshries. It was being above his condition. Horses! What's a tradesman got to do with horses? Unless he's retired! Then he's a gentleman, and can do as he likes.
They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a different voice: 'Well, what do you say, gentlemen? shall we adjourn? No use standing here.
Coxwell rubbed his chin. 'Don't like to rob the widder. 'What's left goes to the undertaker? asked Grossby. 'To be sure, said Barnes; and Kilne added: 'It's a job': Lawyer Perkins ejaculating confidently, 'Perquisites of office, gentlemen; perquisites of office! which settled the dispute and appeased every conscience. A survey of the table ensued.
Barnes undertook to explain; but Kilne, who relished the narrative quite as well, and was readier, said: 'Look here! I 'll tell you. I had it from his own mouth one night when he wasn't not quite himself. He was coming down King William Street, where he stabled his horse, you know, and I met him. He'd been dining out-somewhere out over Fallow field, I think it was; and he sings out to me, "Ah!
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