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The fact is, the girl was washing the glasses. The establishment boasted four: we do not record the circumstance as at all derogatory to Mrs. Raddle, for there never was a lodging-house yet, that was not short of glasses.
Thus also was it, when he added meditatively to Bob's hesitating explanation to Mrs. Raddle, "the fact is that I have been disappointed in the City to-day" "Extraordinary place that City: astonishing number of men always are getting disappointed there." Hereupon it was that that fiercest of little women, Mrs.
Raddle, rubbing his hands, and evincing a slight tendency to brighten up a little. 'Indeed, to tell you the truth, I said, as we was a-coming along in the cabrioily At the recapitulation of the word which awakened so many painful recollections, Mrs. Raddle applied her handkerchief to her eyes again, and uttered a half-suppressed scream; so that Mrs. Bardell frowned upon Mr.
'I am very much indebted to you for your friendship and good-nature, Hopkins, said the wretched Mr. Bob Sawyer, 'but I think the best plan to avoid any further dispute is for us to break up at once. 'Now, Mr. Sawyer, screamed the shrill voice of Mrs. Raddle, 'are them brutes going? 'They're only looking for their hats, Mrs. Raddle, said Bob; 'they are going directly. 'Going! said Mrs.
Benjamin Allen soothingly. 'Have the goodness to keep your observashuns to yourself, Sir, I beg, said Mrs. Raddle, suddenly arresting the rapid torrent of her speech, and addressing the third party with impressive slowness and solemnity. 'I am not aweer, Sir, that you have any right to address your conversation to me. I don't think I let these apartments to you, Sir.
Raddle threw down all the umbrellas in the passage, disappearing into the back parlour with an awful crash. In answer to the cheerful inquiry from Mr. Pickwick, "Does Mr.
'I beg your parding, young man, said Mrs. Raddle, in a cold perspiration of anger. 'But will you have the goodness just to call me that again, sir? 'I didn't make use of the word in any invidious sense, ma'am, replied Mr. Benjamin Allen, growing somewhat uneasy on his own account. 'I beg your parding, young man, demanded Mrs. Raddle, in a louder and more imperative tone.
Being conveyed into the front parlour, she was there deposited on a sofa; and the lady from the first floor running up to the first floor, returned with a bottle of sal-volatile, which, holding Mrs. Raddle tight round the neck, she applied in all womanly kindness and pity to her nose, until that lady with many plunges and struggles was fain to declare herself decidedly better.
As for the generals who go galloping up and down among bomb-shells in absurd cocked hats as for the actors who raddle their faces and demean themselves for hire upon the stage they must belong, thank God! to a different order of beings, whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane, or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.
'For lone people as have got nobody to care for them, or take care of them, or as have been hurt in their mind, or that kind of thing, observed Mr. Raddle, plucking up a little cheerfulness, and looking round, 'the country is all very well. The country for a wounded spirit, they say.
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