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I saw him put it on myself!" "Tell me her name, if you know it." "I see you won't be easy till you know all about it. Her name's Afriddity, or Froddity, or something outlandish like that. She lives at Rosherwich, a good deal in the open air, and there, don't be ridiculous it's only a statue! There's a pretty thing to be jealous of!" "Only a statue!" echoed Matilda. "Oh!
This continued until a moment when some electric lights suddenly flashed into the omnibus as it passed, and lit up the whole interior with a ghastly glare, in which the grey female became distinctly visible. He caught his breath and shrank into the corner; for in that moment his excited imagination had traced a strange resemblance to the figure he had left in Rosherwich Gardens.
"Bless your soul, yes," said Leander, who was a true patriot, "plenty of them!" "Oh, I did not aware that; but who?" "Well," said the hairdresser, "there's the Eagle in the City Road, for one; and there's the Surrey Gardens; and there's Rosherwich," he added, after a pause. "And you go there, often?" "I've been to Rosherwich." "Was it goot there you laike it, eh?"
"I don't deny," said Leander, "meeting her several times, and being considerably struck, in a quiet way. But that was before I met Matilda." "You had met Matilda before last Saturday, I suppose?" sneered Bella, spitefully "when you laid your plans to join our party to Rosherwich, and trouble my poor sister, who'd given up thinking of you." "There you go, Bella!" said her fiancé.
"James," he said in an agitated whisper, "have you brought Bella?" Jauncy nodded. "We were talking of you as we came along," he said in the same tone, "and I advise you to look out she's got her quills up, old chap!" "What about?" murmured Leander. Mr. Jauncy's grin was wider and more appreciative than ever as he replied, mysteriously, "Rosherwich!"
At the other end of the carriage, Bella had been suggesting that the gardens might be closed so late in the year, and regretting that they had not chosen the new melodrama at the Adelphi instead; which caused Jauncy to draw glowing pictures of the attractions of Rosherwich Gardens.
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