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Prohack said: "I shall now get up. Go downstairs and ask Machin that's the parlourmaid to show you the breakfast-room. The breakfast-room is behind the dining-room, and is so called because it is never employed for breakfast.
And though Machin is amongst the commonest names in the Five Towns, all would have known that the great and admired Denry was meant ... It was astonishing that a personage so notorious should not have been instantly "spotted" in such a resort as the Empire. More proof that the Five Towns was a vast and seething concentration of cities, and no longer a mere district where everybody knew everybody!
Veiga entered the bedroom in exactly the same style as on his first visit to Mr. Prohack himself. He had heard the nature of the case from Machin on his way upstairs. He listened to Mr. Prohack, who spoke, in the most deceitful way, as if he had been through scores of such affairs. "Exactly," said Dr. Veiga, examining Eve summarily. "She sat up. The blood naturally left her head, and she fainted.
In the reign of Edward the Third a young man named Robert Machin fell in love with a beautiful girl, his superior in rank, Anne Dorset or d'Urfey by name. The marriage being accomplished, and the girl carried away by her bridegroom to his seat in the West, it was thought safe to release Machin.
Machin," said the lady, making a new start, "I hope you won't go in for these costumes and scenery. That would never do!" Again the stab of the needle! "It wouldn't," he said. "I'm delighted you think so," said she.
And the article was introduced by the phrase: "We are indebted to Mr E.H. Machin, a prominent figure in Bursley," etc. It was like a miracle. Do what he would, Denry could not stop his face from glowing. With false calm he gave the paper, to Ruth. Her calmness in receiving it upset him. "We'll read it in the train," she said primly, and started to talk about something else.
'I dare, was the drawled, smiling answer. 'I tell thee thee dars' na'! 'I tell thee I dare. And thereupon he slowly but resolutely set out for the slip-house door and Mr. Machin.
Alderman Machin began instinctively to calculate the amount of money in the house, and to wonder whether there would be a chance for a second music-hall in the dissipated town of Hanbridge. He also wondered why the idea of a second music-hall in Hanbridge had never occurred to him before. The Grand Circle was so called because it was grand.
He heard Trent's triumphant voice, carrying the end of a conversation into the room: "If he hadn't been going away," Carlo Trent was saying, "Pilgrim would have taken it. Pilgrim " The poet's eyes met Edward Henry's, and the sentence was never finished. "How d'ye do, Machin?" murmured the poet. Then a bell began to ring and would not stop.
"Why," Mrs Cotterill said, "I could run this house without a servant and have myself tidy by ten o'clock in a morning." And Mrs Machin nodded. "And then when you want a regular turn-out, as you call it," said Denry, "there's the vacuum-cleaner." The vacuum-cleaner was at that period the last word of civilisation, and the first agency for it was being set up in Bursley.
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