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Ventimore," said Rapkin, who was not far gone enough to be beyond understanding or obeying. "You leave it entirely to me. I'll unnertake that your friends shall be made comforrable, perfelly comforrable.
Rapkin presented herself, making so deplorably incongruous a figure in such surroundings, and looking so bewildered and woebegone, that Horace, in spite of his own increasing uneasiness, had some difficulty in keeping his gravity. "Oh, Mr. Ventimore, sir," she lamented; "whatever will you go and do next, I wonder?
When Rapkin comes in I'm sure he'd go round with pleasure, and see about it, if required." "I'll go round myself," said Horace. "It's all right, Mrs. Rapkin, quite a natural mistake on your part, but but I happen to want the bottle again. You needn't stay." "O thou smooth-faced and double-tongued one!" said the Jinnee, after she had gone, as he reappeared to view.
Rapkin, observing his expression; "I only used a little warm ale to it, which is a capital thing for brass-work, and gave it a scrub with 'Vitrolia' soap but it would take more than that to get all the muck off of it." "It is all right, so long as you didn't try to get the top off," said Horace. "Why, the top was off it, sir.
He felt sincerely thankful to have got out of it so easily, for it was impossible to say what gossip might not have been set on foot if the Rapkins had not been brought to see the advisability of reticence on the subject. "There's one more thing, sir, I wished for to speak to you about," said Mrs. Rapkin; "that great brass vawse as you bought at an oction some time back.
"I'm sure, Mr. Ventimore, sir," she began, apologetically, "I don't know what you must have thought of me and Rapkin last night, leaving the house like we did!" "It was extremely inconvenient," said Horace, "and not at all what I should have expected from you. But possibly you had some reason for it?" "Why, sir," said Mrs.
Futvoye's eyes, if not in her daughter's he decided to put on the Eastern robes, with the exception of a turban, which he could not manage to wind round his head. Thus arrayed he re-entered the domed hall, where he was annoyed to find that no attempt had been made as yet to prepare a dinner-table, and he was just looking forlornly round for a bell when Rapkin appeared.
Rapkin would be sober enough after his head had been under the tap for a few minutes, and in any case there would be the hired waiter to rely upon. If he could only find out where his evening clothes were!
"If you say so I dare say it's correct, sir," said Mr. Dilger, without exhibiting the least confusion. "And if I did buy it off Mr. Rapkin, he's a respectable party, and ain't likely to have come by it dishonest." "I never said he did. What will you take for the thing?" "Well, just look at the work in it. They don't turn out the like o' that nowadays.
I was surprised, and so was Rapkin the same, to see you ridin' off this morning in the gorgious chariot and 'osses, and dressed up that lovely! 'Depend upon it, I says to Rapkin, I says, 'depend upon it, Mr. Ventimore'll be sent for to Buckinham Pallis, if it ain't Windsor Castle!" "Never mind that now," said Horace, impatiently; "I want that brass bottle I bought the other day.
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