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Mel admitted them into the parlour, bowing much above the level of many of the heads that passed her. Assembled were Messrs. Barnes, Kilne, and Grossby, whom we know; Mr. Doubleday, the ironmonger; Mr. Joyce, the grocer; Mr. Perkins, commonly called Lawyer Perkins; Mr. Welbeck, the pier-master of Lymport; Bartholomew Fiske; Mr.
By the invitation to adjourn, it was well understood by the committee Kilne addressed, that they were invited to pass his threshold, and partake of a morning draught. Barnes, the butcher, had no objection whatever, and if Grossby, a man of milder make, entertained any, the occasion and common interests to be discussed, advised him to waive them.
Kilne, the publican opposite, had seen Sally, one of the domestic servants, come out of the house in the early morning and rush up the street to the doctor's, tossing her hands; and she, not disinclined to dilute her grief, had, on her return, related that her master was then at his last gasp, and had refused, in so many words, to swallow the doctor.
'Amen! said Barnes, as to a matter-of-fact affair. Some minutes after, the two were joined by Grossby, the confectioner, who listened to the news, and observed: 'Just like him! I'd have sworn he'd never take doctor's stuff'; and, nodding at Kilne, 'liked his medicine best, eh? 'Had a-hem! good lot of it, muttered Kilne, with a suddenly serious brow.
Gentlefolks like straight-forwardness in their inferiors that's what they do. Ah! said Kilne, meditatively, 'I see him now, walking across the street in the moonlight, after he 'd told me that. A fine figure of a man! and there ain't many Marquises to match him. To this Barnes and Grossby, not insensible to the merits of the recital they had just given ear to, agreed.
Something or other! and so we run on. 'What I want to know, said Barnes, the butcher, 'is where he got his tenners from? Kilne shook a sagacious head: 'No knowing! 'I suppose we shall get something out of the fire? Barnes suggested. 'That depends! answered the emphatic Kilne.
'Amen! said Barnes, as to a matter-of-fact affair. Some minutes after, the two were joined by Grossby, the confectioner, who listened to the news, and observed: 'Just like him! I'd have sworn he'd never take doctor's stuff'; and, nodding at Kilne, 'liked his medicine best, eh? 'Had a-hem! good lot of it, muttered Kilne, with a suddenly serious brow.
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," said he, "you're an honest man, and a neighbour, and I'll tell you what happened. The Squire," he says, "likes my company, and I like his table. Now the Squire 'd never do a dirty action, but the Squire's nephew, Mr. George Uplift, he can't forget that I earn my money, and once or twice I have had to correct him." And I'll wager Mel did it, too!
'But, you know, if the widow carries on the business, said Grossby, 'there's no reason why we shouldn't get it all, eh? 'There ain't two that can make clothes for nothing, and make a profit out of it, said Kilne. 'That young chap in Portugal, added Barnes, 'he won't take to tailoring when he comes home. D' ye think he will?
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