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Clive returned to the chapel by the little door near to the Vestiarium. All the congregation had poured out by this time. Only two ladies were standing near the pulpit; and Sherrick, with his hands rattling his money in his pockets, was pacing up and down the aisle. "Capital house, Mr. Newcome, wasn't it? I counted no less than fourteen nobs.
The Colonel, looking very gloomy and turning red, said, "Yes, he bought wine from Sherrick, who had been very good-natured and serviceable; and who and who, you know, is our connexion now." When informed of the circumstance by Clive, I too, as I confess, thought the incident alarming. Then Clive, with a laugh, told me of a grand battle which had taken place in consequence of Mrs.
But Sherrick was invited on other days, and a very queer society did our honest Colonel gather together in that queer house, so dreary, so dingy, so comfortless, so pleasant. He, who was one of the most hospitable men alive, loved to have his friends around him; and it must be confessed that the evening parties now occasionally given in Fitzroy Square were of the oddest assemblage of people.
Sherrick in great gravity, with large gold pins, who handed him, at the anthem, a large, new, gilt hymn-book. An odour of millefleurs rustled by them as Charles Honeyman accompanied by his ecclesiastical valet, passed the pew from the vestry, and took his place at the desk.
"And she's always thinking of it. Women are so." Clive was touched and pleased by this exhibition of kind feeling. "You know his mother was an Absalom," the good wife continues, pointing to her husband. "Most respectable diamond merchants in " "Hold your tongue, Betsy, and leave my poor old mother alone; do now," says Mr. Sherrick darkly.
"Do you know how much that contest cost?" asks F. B. "The sum, sir, was awful! and we have ever so much of it to pay. I came up twice myself from Newcome to Campion and Sherrick about it. I betray no secrets F. B., sir, would die a thousand deaths before he would tell the secrets of his benefactor! But, Pendennis, you understand a thing or two.
Ridley at the door to listen to the music. Miss Sherrick looks doubly handsome as she sings. Clive Newcome is in a rapture; so is good-natured Miss Rosey, whose little heart beats with pleasure, and who says quite unaffectedly to Miss Sherrick, with delight and gratitude beaming from her blue eyes, "Why did you ask me to sing, when you sing so wonderfully, so beautifully, yourself?
They dress the part, sir, to admiration a sort of nunlike costume they come in: Mrs. Sherrick has the soul of an artist still by Jove, sir, when they have once smelt the lamps, the love of the trade never leaves 'em. The ladies actually practised by moonlight in the Chapel, and came over to Honeyman's to an oyster afterwards. The thing took, sir.
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