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"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.
"Perhaps that will satisfy you? Stay, you'd better not let her see you." "I will render myself invisible," said the Jinnee, suiting the action to his words. "But beware lest thou play me false," his voice continued, "for I shall hear thee!" "So you've come in, Mr. Ventimore?" said Mrs. Rapkin, as she entered. "And without the furrin gentleman?
Don't get anything in for me; I shall most probably dine at the club," said Horace; and Mrs. Rapkin, who had a confirmed belief that all clubs were hotbeds of vice and extravagance, sniffed disapproval. "By the way," he added, "if a kind of brass pot is sent here, it's all right. I bought it at a sale yesterday. Be careful how you handle it it's rather old."
Rapkin," he said, "but I've no time to talk about it now. I must rush upstairs and dress." "Begging your pardon, sir, but that's a total unpossibility for they've been and took away the staircase. "Taken away the staircase? Nonsense?" cried Horace. "So I think, Mr. Ventimore but it's what them men have done, and if you don't believe me, come and see for yourself!"
But I must have been mistook leastways, them Arabs got in somehow. I hope you meant everything to go back?" "Quite," said Horace; "I saw the the person who sent them this morning, and told him there was nothing I cared for enough to keep." "And like his impidence sending you a lot o' rubbish like that on approval and on camels, too!" declared Mrs. Rapkin.
"Oh," said Horace, rather relieved, for he had an ill-defined dread from her opening words that the bottle might have been misbehaving itself in some way. "Put it wherever you please, Mrs. Rapkin; do whatever you like with it so long as I don't see the thing again!" "Very good, sir; I on'y thought I'd ask the question," said Mrs. Rapkin, as she closed the door upon herself.
And to think of me leaving my dinner half cooked, and you expecting your young lady and her pa and ma! Well, there, now, I am sorry. Whatever did you do, sir?" "We managed to get food of sorts from somewhere," said Horace, "but it was most uncomfortable for me, and I trust, Mrs. Rapkin I sincerely trust that it will not occur again." "That I'll answer for it shan't, sir.
"Just a simple dinner, thoroughly well cooked, and nicely served as you know so well how to do it." "I suppose, sir, you would require Rapkin to wait?"
"I'm sure I can't tell you, sir, having stepped out to get some things I wanted in for to-night; and Rapkin, he was round the corner at his reading-room; and when I come back it was all done and the workmen gone 'ome; and how they could have finished such a job in the time beats me altogether, for when we 'ad the men in to do the back kitchen they took ten days over it."
"I do not propose to wait in any garments whatsoever," said Rapkin; "I'm a-goin' out, I am." "Very well," said Horace; "then send the waiter up I suppose he's come?" "He come but he went away again I told him as he wouldn't be required." "You told him that!" Horace said angrily, and then controlled himself. "Come, Rapkin, be reasonable.
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