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The permanently fast fellows, or, as we think their general demeanour entitles them to be called, "Blackguard Nobs," are a lot of little, scrubby, bad-blooded, groom-like fellows, who have always, even from childhood, been incorrigible, of whom nursery governesses could make nothing, and whose education tutors abandoned in despair; expelled from Eton, rusticated at Cambridge, good for nothing but mischief in boyhood, regularly bred scamps and profligates in youth, and, luckily for mankind, generally worn-out before they attain the wrong side of forty.
"Ah!" said Julia, "I must say I wish the Colonel had beat that horrid Muddlefist. If we can't have our own man, I am all for the Nobs against the Middle Class." "We'll have our own man soon, I expect," said Harriet. "If the people don't work, how are the aristocracy to pay the police?" "Only think!" said Widow Carey shaking her head.
Were there many passes or only one? I had no way of knowing. I could but trust to chance. It never occurred to me that Nobs had made the crossing at least once, possibly a greater number of times, and that he might lead me to the pass; and so it was with no idea of assistance that I appealed to him as a man alone with a dumb brute so often does.
'Wait a minute, said the stranger, 'fun presently nobs not come yet queer place dockyard people of upper rank don't know dockyard people of lower rank dockyard people of lower rank don't know small gentry small gentry don't know tradespeople commissioner don't know anybody. 'Who's that little boy with the light hair and pink eyes, in a fancy dress?'inquired Mr. Tupman.
The tea-things had been scarcely put away, and the hearth swept up, when the London coach deposited Mr. Weller, senior, at the door; his legs deposited him in the bar; and his eyes showed him his son. 'What, Sammy! exclaimed the father. 'What, old Nobs! ejaculated the son. And they shook hands heartily. 'Wery glad to see you, Sammy, said the elder Mr.
"Je-ru-salem!" exclaimed Barker, as he insisted on shaking hands with each of the persons named; "seems to me that at last the great ambition of my life is bein' gratified by my gettin' on intimate terms with the nobs. Quite a distinguished comp'ny, I'm sure. And you, sir, I presume, are Lord Elphinstone?"
Nevertheless a very refined gentleman, a baron somewhat the worse for a night of bourbon. The idiotic orchestra, the idiotic orchestra! Did anybody ever hear such an idiotic orchestra? Three violins, one cello, one cornet, one flute and a drum all out of tune, all out of time. The prelude. And his nobs grins. Poor fellow. But who taught him how to hold a fiddle like that? We're off.
I told 'em it was weighting him out of the race, but they laughed at me. Never you mind, though, he can carry weight and stay too. My ten per cent's as safe as the bank. He'll put the stuns on all them nobs, too, that think a racehorse must always come out of one of their training stables. 'Well, good-bye, old man, says I, 'and good luck.
'The great nobs, replied Harry, 'under which designation, I presume, you include my most stately uncle, have not communicated with me at all, since I have been here; nor, at this time of the year, is it likely that anything would occur to render necessary my immediate attendance among them. 'Well, said the doctor, 'you are a queer fellow.
The man stepped back and warded off the first attack with a heavy blow of his fist, immediately drawing his knife with which to meet the Airedale's return. And Nobs would have returned, all right, had not I spoken to him. In a low voice I called him to heel.
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