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I wish you had asked him to come and dine here on Sunday, so that we might have seen whether he eats his gravy with his knife. I looked very hard to see whether he'd catch his crumbs in his handkerchief." Then Susanna went to her bed, and Miss Mackenzie was left alone to think over the perfections and imperfections of Mr Samuel Rubb, junior.
We used to laugh at him, because he is so clever at it. He never spills any; and his knife seems to be quite as good as a spoon. But this Mr Rubb doesn't do things of that sort." "He's younger, my dear." "But being younger doesn't make people more ladylike of itself." "I did not know that Mr Rubb was exactly ladylike." "That's taking me up unfairly; isn't it, aunt?
"How can you say such things?" asked Miss Baker, who was shocked by the tenor of the conversation. "It isn't I, my dear; it's Mr Rubb and Mr Maguire, between them. One says he has thrown off all decorum and the other declares himself to be a mass of iniquity. What are two poor old ladies like you and I to do in such company?"
But some further annoyance he did give to Griselda. He managed to induce Mrs Tom Mackenzie to take him in as a lodger in Gower Street, and Margaret very nearly ran into his way in her anxiety to befriend her sister-in-law. Luckily she heard from Mr Rubb that he was there on the very day on which she had intended to visit Gower Street.
"Just so, Mr Rubb. That is what I think; and therefore I have given my sister-in-law no hint that there is a chance left. I think you had better not do so either." "Perhaps not," said he. He spoke in a low voice, almost whispering, as though he were half scared by the tidings he had heard. "It is very dreadful," she said; "very dreadful for Sarah and the children."
At that moment Miss Mackenzie hated him in spite of her special theory. "Thank you," said Miss Baker, declining the arm; "it is only a step." Miss Mackenzie declined it also. "Oh, of course," said Mr Rubb. "If it's only next door it does not signify." Miss Todd welcomed them cordially, gloves and all. "My dear," she said to Miss Baker, "I haven't seen you for twenty years.
Messrs Rubb and Mackenzie had wanted the money at once, whereas the papers for the mortgage were not ready. Would Miss Mackenzie allow Messrs Rubb and Mackenzie to have the money under these circumstances? To this inquiry from her lawyer she made a rejoinder asking for advice.
As the discreet young man, who is desirous of rising in the world, will eschew skittles, and in preference go out to tea at his aunt's house much more delectable as skittles are to his own heart so did Miss Mackenzie resolve that it would become her to select Messrs Stumfold and Maguire as her male friends, and to treat Mr Rubb simply as a man of business.
"Good-night, Mr Rubb," said Miss Todd; "and don't make very bad reports of us in London." "Oh! no; indeed I won't." "For though we do play cards, we still stick to decorum, as you must have observed to-night." At Miss Mackenzie's door there was an almost overpowering amount of affectionate farewells.
They want to get their uncle's money back, and she wants to be a baronet's wife." The same view of the matter was perhaps taken by Mr Rubb, junior, when he was told that Miss Mackenzie was to pass through London on her way to the Cedars, though he did not express his fears openly, as Mrs Mackenzie had done. "Why don't you ask your sister to stay in Gower Street?" he said to his partner.
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