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Updated: May 27, 2025
If not to-day, it will certainly be to-morrow, and so the medical gentleman went his way. "Now the coming morrow would be Macassar's birthday. On that morrow he would be twenty-six. "All alone he sat there till the autumn sun gave way to the shades of evening.
"On the day of Macassar's visit in Tavistock Square, Crinoline was dressed in a most elegant morning costume. It was a very light barege muslin, extremely full; and which, as she had assured her friend, Miss Manasseh, of Keppel Street, had been sent home from the establishment in Hanover Square only the day before.
As Macassar's joy was at its height, in the proud moment of his triumph, a hated voice struck his ears, and filled his soul with dismay once more. "'There's two to one still on the Lying-in, said this hateful Lucifer. "And so Macassar was not all happy even yet, as he walked home to his lodgings.
'Connubial bliss and furnished lodgings are not compatible. My aunt, my aunt, for what misery hast thou not to answer! Oh, Mrs. Gamp, could you be so obliging as to tell me what o'clock it is? The last question was asked as Mrs. Gamp suddenly entered the room with a candle. Macassar's watch had been required for the use of one of the servants.
For a while he doubted to which of them he should confide the secret of his inspiration; but genius will not hide its head under a bushel; and thus, before long, did Macassar's song become the common property of the Episcopal Audit Board.
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