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Having swallowed this gentle stimulant, and shaken his fist at the admiral, he bade Mr Brass proceed. 'But first, said Quilp, with his accustomed grin, 'have a drop yourself a nice drop a good, warm, fiery drop. 'Why, sir, replied Brass, 'if there was such a thing as a mouthful of water that could be got without trouble 'There's no such thing to be had here, cried the dwarf.
The dwarf was very much exasperated, and wanting somebody to wreak his ill-humour upon, determined to dart out suddenly, and favour Mrs Quilp with a gentle acknowledgment of her attention in making that hideous uproar.
'Who's up stairs, you dog? retorted Quilp in the same tone. 'Tell me. And don't speak above your breath, or I'll choke you in good earnest.
Mr Quilp, either because frightening anybody afforded him a constitutional delight, or because it was pleasant to contemplate the death of Mrs Quilp number one, and the elevation of Mrs Quilp number two to her post and title, or because he was determined from purposes of his own to be agreeable and good-humoured at that particular time, only laughed and feigned to take no heed of her alarm.
Resuming his boisterous manner with the same ease with which he had thrown it off, Quilp was in an instant the same uproarious, reckless little savage he had been a few seconds before.
Is Bulwer, Pelham, and Paul Clifford, Eugene Aram, and the Lady of Lyons? Is James, Mary of Burgundy, Darnley, the Gipsy, and Corse de Leon? Is Dickens, Sam Weller, Quilp, and Barnaby Rudge? to what absurdities will this lead us! and yet Bernard Cavanagh was no more guilty than any of these gentlemen.
And at times his blue fire was of a very cheap kind. Rosa Dartle and Carker, Steerforth and Blandois, Quilp and Uriah Heep, have a melancholy glitter of the footlights over them. We cannot see what the villains want, except to look villainous, and we fail to make out where is the danger to the innocent victims.
'If they would knock again, said Quilp, trying to peer into the gloom by which he was surrounded, 'the sound might guide me! Come! Batter the gate once more! He stood listening intently, but the noise was not renewed. Nothing was to be heard in that deserted place, but, at intervals, the distant barkings of dogs.
In the meantime, if Mr Swiveller will take my seat, and try his hand at a fair copy of this ejectment, as I shall be out pretty well all the morning 'Walk with me, said Quilp. 'I have a word or two to say to you on points of business. Can you spare the time? 'Can I spare the time to walk with you, sir? You're joking, sir, you're joking with me, replied the lawyer, putting on his hat.
She put the charge mildly. "It is sad," she wrote, "to think that in the nineteenth century a lady must not venture into a physician's study without being accompanied by a bodyguard to protect her." Miss Travers admitted that Dr. Quilp was intended for Sir William Wilde; indeed she identified Dr. Quilp with the newly made knight in a dozen different ways.
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