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In fact, to hear Mrs Meddlechip talk one would think that England was a perfect aristocratic paradise, and Victoria a vulgar other place. She totally ignored the marvellously rapid growth of the country, and that the men and women in it were actually the men and women who had built it up year by year, so that even now it was taking its place among the nations of the earth.
'I assure you, my dear fellow, if you treat me well, I'm a very easy person to deal with. The eyes of the two men met for a moment across the table, and Vandeloup's had such a meaning look in them, that Meddlechip dropped his own with a shiver.
Barty and his friends, therefore, went off by themselves, and left Vandeloup alone. He picked up the evening paper and glanced over it with a yawn, when a name caught his eye which he had frequently noticed before. 'I say, he said to a tall, fair young fellow who had just entered, 'who is this Meddlechip the paper is full of?
'Possibly not, but I do, replied Vandeloup, sweetly, taking his arm; 'come, let us go. Meddlechip did not resist, but walked passively out of the bar with Vandeloup, much to the astonishment of the thin gentleman, who called out to him but without getting any answer. Meddlechip went to the cloak room and put on his coat and hat.
Kestrike is afraid, and would leave himself; he rises from the table; so does Braulard; here Gaston rose and crossed to Meddlechip, who was also on his feet 'he goes to Kestrike, seizes his wrist, thus drags him to the bedroom, and there on the bed lies Adele Blonde dead killed by the poison of one lover given her by the other and the murderers look at one another thus.
Gaston sauntered slowly up to the coffee bar, and asked for a cup in his usual musical voice, but when the stout gentleman heard him speak he turned pale and looked up. The thin one had gone off to talk to someone else, so when Vandeloup got his coffee he turned slowly round and looked straight at Meddlechip seated in the chair. 'Good evening, M. Kestrike, he said, quietly.
Meddlechip evidently saw it was no good trying to fight against the consummate coolness of this young man, so with a great effort resolved to adapt himself to the exigencies of the case, and fight his adversary with his own weapons.
It would be Vandeloup promoted vice Jarper resigned, but Barty very well knew that Gaston was not a man to conduct himself like a poodle dog, so came to the conclusion he would be retained for use and M. Vandeloup for ornament. Meanwhile, he left Mrs Meddlechip to cultivate the acquaintance of the young Frenchman, and went off with a red-haired girl to the supper-room.
Kitty, therefore, accompanied Mrs Riller to the ball, but the guardianship of that lady was more nominal than anything else, as she went off with Mr Bellthorp after introducing Kitty to Mrs Meddlechip, and flirted and danced with him the whole evening.
'Are you going to Meddlechip's ball? said Calton to Madame. 'Oh, yes, she answered, nodding her head, 'I and Miss Marchurst are both going. 'Who is Mr Meddlechip? asked Kitty, swinging round on the piano- stool. 'He is the most charitable man in Melbourne, said Gaston, with a faint sneer. 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians, said Calton, mockingly.
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