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'There now, sir, said the guide; 'no more of them ugly buckets, Mr. Neverbend; we can trust to our own arms and legs for the rest of it, and so saying, he pointed out to Mr. Neverbend's horror- stricken eyes a perpendicular iron ladder fixed firmly against the upright side of a shaft, and leading for aught Mr. Neverbend could see direct to hell itself.
'You are now seven minutes late, said he, 'and if you are not at the place by eight o'clock, I shall not give you one farthing! 'All right, said Jehu. 'We'll be at Mary Jane in less than no time; and off they went, not at the quickest pace. But Neverbend's heart beat high with triumph, as he reflected that he had carried the point on which he had been so intent.
The manner in which it grounded itself on the first landing grated discordantly on Mr. Neverbend's finer perceptibilities. But when he learnt, after the interchange of various hoarse and to him unintelligible bellowings, that he was to wait in that narrow damp lobby for the coming of his fellow- Commissioner, the grating on his feelings was even more discordant.
Neverbend's heart had grown faintish, but still he had persevered, and now stood on a third lobby, listening with dull, unintelligent ears to eager questions asked, by his colleague, and to the rapid answers of their mining guides. Tudor was absolutely at work with paper and pencil, taking down notes in that wretched Pandemonium.
He was dressed in simple black, and was clearly not one of the ship's officers; but I could not but suspect at the moment that he was in some special measure concerned in the mission on which the gunboat had been sent. He sat on Mrs Neverbend's left hand, and did seem in some respect to be the chief man on that occasion.
When they came to speak of the vices and the virtues of President Neverbend, to tell of his weakness and his strength, it should never be said of him that he had been deterred by fear of the people from carrying out the great measure which he had projected solely for their benefit. Comforted by this resolve, I went into Mrs Neverbend's parlour, where I found her son Jack sitting with her.
'Bring the tea and the eggs at once, said Neverbend, very briskly. 'Won't you wait for Mr. Tudor? asked the waiter, with an air of surprise. Now the landlord, waiter, boots, and chambermaid, the chambermaid especially, had all, in Mr. Neverbend's estimation, paid Tudor by far too much consideration; and he was determined to show that he himself was first fiddle.
Neverbend was rather fussy with his dispatch-box, and a large official packet, which an office messenger, dashing up in, a cab, brought to him at the moment of his departure. Neverbend's enemies were wont to declare that a messenger, a cab, and a big packet always rushed up at the moment of his starting on any of his official trips.
Of course we had all heard of it; but Lord Marylebone did not know what had been Mrs Neverbend's wishes for her own son. "We did know that Sir Kennington had been very attentive, but there is no knowing what that means from you foreign gentlemen. It's a pity that poor Eva, who is a good girl in her way, should have her head turned." This came from my wife.
The excitement and fatigue of the day had been too much for her, and she was now completely overcome. Ugolina Neverbend's advice, though not quite given in the kindest way, had in itself been good. Mrs. Woodward would, in truth, have been unhappy could she have seen her child at this moment.
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