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"But I'm not a Countess," I laughed. "Well, I guess I'll just go one better and raise you to Princess, then. It's the best I can do, having been reared with plain Misses and Mississes. You look like a Princess, anyhow, and the Queen might be proud to have you for a cousin.
'Why, goodness gracious me, Miss Floy, returned Miss Nipper, 'how can you talk like that, when you have books upon books already, and masterses and mississes a teaching of you everything continual, though my belief is that your Pa, Miss Dombey, never would have learnt you nothing, never would have thought of it, unless you'd asked him when he couldn't well refuse; but giving consent when asked, and offering when unasked, Miss, is quite two things; I may not have my objections to a young man's keeping company with me, and when he puts the question, may say "yes," but that's not saying "would you be so kind as like me."
'Gentlemen, said the man in blue, with an air of the most consummate dandyism, 'I'll give you the ladies; come. 'Hear, hear! said Sam. 'The young mississes. Here there was a loud cry of 'Order, and Mr. John Smauker, as the gentleman who had introduced Mr. Weller into that company, begged to inform him that the word he had just made use of, was unparliamentary.
'Which word was that 'ere, Sir? inquired Sam. 'Mississes, Sir, replied Mr. John Smauker, with an alarming frown. 'We don't recognise such distinctions here. 'Oh, wery good, said Sam; 'then I'll amend the obserwation and call 'em the dear creeturs, if Blazes vill allow me.
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