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I wish you were. Mrs Lammle bestowed a sweet and loving smile upon her friend, which Miss Podsnap returned as she best could. They sat at lunch in Mrs Lammle's own boudoir. 'And so, dearest Georgiana, Alfred is like your notion of a lover? 'I don't say that, Sophronia, Georgiana replied, beginning to conceal her elbows. 'I haven't any notion of a lover.
The meek man supposed he did, but supposed that had absolutely nothing to do with it, if its laws were well administered. 'And you know; at least I hope you know; said Mr Podsnap, with severity, 'that Providence has declared that you shall have the poor always with you? The meek man also hoped he knew that. 'I am glad to hear it, said Mr Podsnap with a portentous air. 'I am glad to hear it.
'But, my dear Podsnap, quoth Veneering, 'there IS a tried friend of our family who, I think and hope you will agree with me, Podsnap, is the friend on whom this agreeable duty almost naturally devolves. That friend, saying the words as if the company were about a hundred and fifty in number, 'is now among us. That friend is Twemlow. 'Certainly! From Podsnap.
'I am disposed to think, says he, 'that this is a question of the feelings of a gentleman. 'A gentleman can have no feelings who contracts such a marriage, flushes Podsnap. 'Pardon me, sir, says Twemlow, rather less mildly than usual, 'I don't agree with you. 'This lady! echoes Podsnap. 'Sir, returns Twemlow, with his wristbands bristling a little, 'YOU repeat the word; I repeat the word.
What I insinuated was, that my Georgiana's little heart was growing conscious of a vacancy. 'No, no, no, said Georgiana. 'I wouldn't have anybody say anything to me in that way for I don't know how many thousand pounds. 'In what way, my Georgiana? inquired Mrs Lammle, still smiling coolly with her eyes upon her lunch, and her eyebrows raised. 'YOU know, returned poor little Miss Podsnap.
As a so eminently respectable man, Mr Podsnap was sensible of its being required of him to take Providence under his protection. Consequently he always knew exactly what Providence meant. Inferior and less respectable men might fall short of that mark, but Mr Podsnap was always up to it.
When the time comes for Veneering to deliver a neat and appropriate stammer to the men of Pocket-Breaches, only Podsnap and Twemlow accompany him by railway to that sequestered spot.
And herein the unconsciousness of the Ogre Grompus was pleasantly conspicuous; for, that complacent monster, believing that he was giving Miss Podsnap a treat, prolonged to the utmost stretch of possibility a peripatetic account of an archery meeting; while his victim, heading the procession of sixteen as it slowly circled about, like a revolving funeral, never raised her eyes except once to steal a glance at Mrs Lammle, expressive of intense despair.
'It is not worth my while, pursues Podsnap, becoming handsomely mollified, 'and it is the reverse of important to my position. But it is not my wish to set myself up as law for another man, differently situated. You think it IS worth YOUR while, and IS important to YOUR position. Is that so? Always with the proviso that Podsnap will rally round him, Veneering thinks it is so.
Veneering may find this dining, though expensive, remunerative, in the sense that it makes champions. Mr Podsnap, as a representative man, is not alone in caring very particularly for his own dignity, if not for that of his acquaintances, and therefore in angrily supporting the acquaintances who have taken out his Permit, lest, in their being lessened, he should be.
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