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Inch by inch, in his grudging and ill-conditioned way; sustained to the life, for the hope of making Mr Pecksniff suffer in that tender place, the pocket, where Jonas smarted so terribly himself, gave him an additional and malicious interest in the wiles he was set on to practise; inch by inch, and bit by bit, Jonas rather allowed the dazzling prospects of the Anglo-Bengalee establishment to escape him, than paraded them before his greedy listener.
'Oh, no, Mr Pecksniff! Your second, and her bridesmaid! Mr Pecksniff smiled complacently; shook his head; and said, 'My daughters, Mrs Todgers. Merely my daughters. 'Ah! sighed the good lady, 'I must believe you, for now I look at 'em I think I should have known 'em anywhere. My dear Miss Pecksniffs, how happy your Pa has made me!
I am naturally, said Mr Pecksniff, drying his hands upon his handkerchief, and looking anxiously in his cousin's face at almost every word, 'proud, if I may use the expression, to have a daughter who is constructed on the best models. 'She seems to have a lively disposition, observed Martin. 'Dear me! said Mr Pecksniff. 'That is quite remarkable.
When Tom came back, he found old Martin sitting by the window, and Mr Pecksniff in an imposing attitude at the table. Tom saw, at a glance, that it was his own salary for the current quarter. 'Have you fastened the vestry-window, Mr Pinch? said Pecksniff. 'Yes, sir. 'Thank you. Put down the keys if you please, Mr Pinch. Tom placed them on the table.
Mr Pecksniff and his fair daughters had not stood warming themselves at the fire ten minutes, when the sound of feet was heard upon the stairs, and the presiding deity of the establishment came hurrying in.
The interval which preceded the return of that young man, he occupied in a close conference with his friend; so that when Tom did arrive, he found the two quite ready to receive him. Mary was in her own room above, whither Mr Pecksniff, always considerate, had besought old Martin to entreat her to remain some half-hour longer, that her feelings might be spared.
These endearments terminated, he took a hasty leave of Mr Pecksniff and withdrew, followed to the door by both father and daughters, who stood there kissing their hands and beaming with affection until he disappeared; though, by the way, he never once looked back, after he had crossed the threshold.
'Very soon indeed, returned Miss Pecksniff. 'As soon as our house is ready. We are furnishing now as fast as we can.
The young girl whom you just now saw what! your eye lightens when I talk of her! You hate her already, do you? 'Upon my word, sir! said Mr Pecksniff, laying his hand upon his breast, and dropping his eyelids. 'I forgot, cried the old man, looking at him with a keenness which the other seemed to feel, although he did not raise his eyes so as to see it. 'I ask your pardon.
Now, when John wrote the other day the morning Pecksniff left, you know he said his business was on the point of being immediately settled, and as he was to receive his money directly, when could I meet him at Salisbury? I wrote and said, any day this week; and I told him besides, that there was a new pupil here, and what a fine fellow you were, and what friends we had become.
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