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And at this, above the ramparts of sacks and bales, which occupied all the available space in the room, appeared Mrs. Rapkin's face. "I was going to ask you, sir, before them parcels came," she began, with a dry cough of disapproval, "what you would like in the way of ongtray to-morrow night. I thought if I could find a sweetbread at all reasonable "
Rapkin's respective noses flattened against the basement window, and then two dusky slaves mounted to a seat at the back of the chariot, and the horses started off at a stately trot in the direction of Rochester Row. "I think you might tell me what all this means," he said. "You've no conception what an ass I feel, stuck up here like this!"
Rapkin's studies had been lightened by copious refreshment "pull yourself together, man, and listen to me." "I respeckfully decline to pull myshelf togerrer f'r anybody livin'," said Mr. Rapkin, with a noble air. "I shtan' 'ere upon my dignity as a man, sir. I shay, I shtand 'ere upon " Here he waved his hand, and sat down suddenly upon the marble floor.
"Well," said Horace, evading this point, "however they've done this, they've done it remarkably well you'll admit that, Mrs. Rapkin?" "That's as may be sir," said Mrs. Rapkin, with a sniff, "but it ain't my taste, nor yet I don't think it will be Rapkin's taste when he comes to see it." It was not Ventimore's taste either, though he was not going to confess it. "Sorry for that, Mrs.
Ventimore," said Mrs. Rapkin, with emphasis, "nor wouldn't. Not if his turbin was all the colours of the rainbow for I don't 'old with such. Why, there was Rapkin's own sister-in-law let her parlour floor to a Horiental a Parsee he was, or one o' them Hafrican tribes and reason she 'ad to repent of it, for all his gold spectacles! Whatever made you fancy I should let to a blackamoor?"
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