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She had only kissed him once; he had only held her in his arms for a few moments ...She waited, looking from behind the drawing-room curtains out into the street. How could he let the whole day go by? He was prevented, perhaps, by that horrible sister of his. When the dusk came and the muffin-man went ringing his bell down the street she felt exhausted as though she had been running for miles ...
It is five o'clock, the noon in Pall Mall. "Here's little Newcome coming," says Mr. Horace Fogey. "He and the muffin-man generally make their appearance in public together." "Dashed little prig," says Sir Thomas de Boots, "why the dash did they ever let him in here? If I hadn't been in India, by dash he should have been blackballed twenty times over, by dash."
We love to fill our thought with speculations on man, even though the man be the muffin-man, rather than with inanimate objects, hills and streams, things to dream about, not to meditate on.
The Saturday and Monday pops were still an institution; and the bell of the muffin-man, in such a wintry season, passed frequently along the foggy streets and squares. Already the epoch seems remote. Madame Okraska was pausing on her way from St. Petersburg to New York and this was the only concert she was to give in London that winter.
"And you, Tom," said his uncle, "what do you say?" "What about, uncle?" "Shall you be afraid to come and help silver another time?" "Oh no, uncle, I think not," replied the boy. "But I say, will my ears leave off?" "What, listening?" "No, uncle; it's just as if I'd got a little tiny muffin-man ringing his bell in each ear as hard as he can go." "Try a night's rest," said Uncle Richard.
Now ensues a delicate savour in the atmosphere of the terrace kitchens, and it is just at its height when Smith, Brown, Jones, and Robinson are seen walking briskly up the terrace. They all go in at Smith's, where the muffin-man went in about half an hour before, and left half his stock behind him.
But for the family group there, what appeared to be the chief sequence connected with it occurred two days afterward. About four o'clock wheels paused before the door, and there came one of those knocks with an accompanying ring which serve to magnify the sense of social existence in a region where the most enlivening signals are usually those of the muffin-man.
'The Arab party? 'Yes, the Arab party! The sight of him took me clean aback. Where he'd been, and what he'd been doing with himself while them there people played hi-spy-hi about his premises I'd have given a shilling out of my pocket to have known, but there he was, as large as life, and carrying a bundle. 'A bundle? 'A bundle, on his head, like a muffin-man carries his tray.
And then, without such drawback of sadness as the other two had had to feel, she caught them each by a hand, and danced them up and down a little dance before the fire upon the hearth-rug singing, "Four of us know the Muffin-man, Five of us know the Muffin-man, All of us know the Muffin-man, That lives in Drury Lane." It was on the corner of Merle Street and Mavis Place.
Bedford Row, where Perkins lived, is not very far from Mecklenburgh Square; and John used to say that he felt a comfort that his house and Lucy's were served by the same muffin-man. Further comment is needless. A more honest, simple, clever, warm-hearted, soft, whimsical, romantical, high-spirited young fellow than John Perkins did not exist.
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