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I'd lay a handsome wager now, said the old man, 'if I laid wagers, which I don't and never did, that you keep up appearances by a tacit understanding, even before your own daughters here. Now I, when I have a business scheme in hand, tell Jonas what it is, and we discuss it openly. You're not offended, Pecksniff?
'Where is our dear friend, Mr Chuffey? asked Pecksniff, looking round the chamber, and winking both his eyes at once for he was overcome by his feelings. But here he was interrupted by Mrs Gamp, who, divested of her bonnet and shawl, came sidling and bridling into the room; and with some sharpness demanded a conference outside the door with Mr Pecksniff.
Having swallowed his share of the enlivening fluid, Mr Pecksniff, under pretence of going to see if the coach were ready, went secretly to the bar, and had his own little bottle filled, in order that he might refresh himself at leisure in the dark coach without being observed. These arrangements concluded, and the coach being ready, they got into their old places and jogged on again.
'How d'ye do, sir? said Mark. 'Oh! cried Mr Pecksniff. 'Tapley, I believe? The Prodigal returned! We don't want any beer, my friend. 'Thankee, sir, said Mark. 'I couldn't accommodate you if you did. A letter, sir. Wait for an answer. 'For me? cried Mr Pecksniff. 'And an answer, eh? 'Not for you, I think, sir, said Mark, pointing out the direction. 'Chuzzlewit, I believe the name is, sir.
It may be observed in connection with his calling his daughter a 'warbler, that she was not at all vocal, but that Mr Pecksniff was in the frequent habit of using any word that occurred to him as having a good sound, and rounding a sentence well without much care for its meaning.
"Dineen's not back, sir," he reported at the gate. "Can anything be wrong?" "I ordered him to bring with him the answer to my dispatch to the general, who wired to me from the railway depot at Cheyenne. Probably he's been waiting for that, and the general's away somewhere. We ought to have an operator here day and night," said Pecksniff petulantly.
Miss Pecksniff controverting this opinion as sinful, Moddle was goaded on to ask whether she could be contented with a blighted heart; and it appearing on further examination that she could be, plighted his dismal troth, which was accepted and returned. He bore his good fortune with the utmost moderation.
'Although I am a widower, said Mr Pecksniff, examining the rings upon her fingers, and tracing the course of one delicate blue vein with his fat thumb, 'a widower with two daughters, still I am not encumbered, my love. One of them, as you know, is married. The other, by her own desire, but with a view, I will confess why not? to my altering my condition, is about to leave her father's house.
'Every relation of life, Mr Chuzzlewit, begging your pardon; and every friend in life, returned Miss Pecksniff, with dignity, 'is now bound up and cemented in Augustus. So long as Augustus is my own, I cannot want a friend. When you speak of friends, sir, I must beg, once for all, to refer you to Augustus.
The miserable Augustus no longer felt strongly even on the subject of Jinkins. He hadn't strength of mind enough to do it. 'Let him come! he had said, in answer to Miss Pecksniff, when she urged the point. 'Let him come! He has ever been my rock ahead through life. 'Tis meet he should be there. Ha, ha! Oh, yes! let Jinkins come! Jinkins had come with all the pleasure in life, and there he was.
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