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And this amid the gilding and the plush and the marble-topped tables, which sickened one with their surface imitation of real rest'rants. "Wouldn't you like to retire into private life, Ebenezer?" asked his hostess. "I'm sure you could, couldn't you?" "Well, Louisa," he replied with hesitation, "if it comes to that, I could. But I hardly know how I should spend my time."
To one person alone did he exhibit all the bitterness of his feelings, and that was Mrs. Clover, the sister of his deceased wife. With her he occasionally spent a Sunday evening in the parlour behind the china shop, and there would speak the thoughts that oppressed him. "It isn't that I've any quarrel with the foreign rest'rants, Louisa. They're all right in their way.
Sparkes went his way, convinced that Polly was being pursued by some wealthy man, probably quite unprincipled the kind of man who frequents "proper rest'rants" and sits in the stalls at "theaytres," where, doubtless, Polly had made his acquaintance.
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