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'Oh dear, Mrs Kenwigs, said Miss Petowker, 'while Mr Noggs is making that punch to drink happy returns in, do let Morleena go through that figure dance before Mr Lillyvick. 'No, no, my dear, replied Mrs Kenwigs, 'it will only worry my uncle. 'It can't worry him, I am sure, said Miss Petowker. 'You will be very much pleased, won't you, sir?
Message from the country! said Mr Kenwigs, ruminating; 'that's curious. I don't know anybody in the country. 'Miss Petowker, suggested Nicholas. 'Oh! from her, is it? said Mr Kenwigs. 'Oh dear, yes. Ah! Mrs Kenwigs will be glad to hear from her. Henrietta Petowker, eh? How odd things come about, now! That you should have met her in the country! Well!
Almost immediately afterwards, Master Percy Crummles entered with a letter, which had arrived by the General Post, and was directed to his gracious mother; at sight of the superscription whereof, Mrs Crummles exclaimed, 'From Henrietta Petowker, I do declare! and instantly became absorbed in the contents. 'Is it ? inquired Mr Crummles, hesitating.
Without stopping to inquire whether the intervening day appeared to Nicholas to consist of the usual number of hours of the ordinary length, it may be remarked that, to the parties more directly interested in the forthcoming ceremony, it passed with great rapidity, insomuch that when Miss Petowker awoke on the succeeding morning in the chamber of Miss Snevellicci, she declared that nothing should ever persuade her that that really was the day which was to behold a change in her condition.
'Oh no, replied Mrs Kenwigs, 'but if she grew up what she is now, only think of the young dukes and marquises. 'Very right, said the collector. 'Still, submitted Miss Petowker, 'if she took a proper pride in herself, you know 'There's a good deal in that, observed Mrs Kenwigs, looking at her husband.
'Fine women, sir! replied the collector; 'ay! not so fine as Henrietta Petowker, for she is an uncommon specimen, but such women as don't fall into every man's way, I can tell you. Now suppose a man can get a fortune IN a wife instead of with her eh? 'Why, then, he's a lucky fellow, replied Nicholas.
Here, he was received by Mrs Kenwigs with a genteel air, kindly intended to assure him of her protection and support; and here, too, he found Mr Lillyvick and Miss Petowker; the four Miss Kenwigses on their form of audience; and the baby in a dwarf porter's chair with a deal tray before it, amusing himself with a toy horse without a head; the said horse being composed of a small wooden cylinder, not unlike an Italian iron, supported on four crooked pegs, and painted in ingenious resemblance of red wafers set in blacking.
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