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Updated: June 11, 2025
'Won't you wait and see Lady Skettles? asked Florence, kindly. 'Oh no, thank you, returned Mr Toots, 'it's of no consequence at all. So shy was Mr Toots on such occasions, and so flurried!
Another and a deeper injury under which the soul of young Barnet chafed, was the company of Dr and Mrs Blimber, who had been invited on a visit to the paternal roof-tree, and of whom the young gentleman often said he would have preferred their passing the vacation at Jericho. 'Is there anybody you can suggest now, Doctor Blimber? said Sir Barnet Skettles, turning to that gentleman.
It was Sir Barnet Skettles, Lady Skettles, and Master Skettles. 'And what room is this now, for instance? said Lady Skettles to Paul's friend, 'Melia. 'Doctor Blimber's study, Ma'am, was the reply.
Sir Barnet Skettles brought up Skettles Junior to shake hands with him, and asked him if he would remember to tell his good Papa, with his best compliments, that he, Sir Barnet Skettles, had said he hoped the two young gentlemen would become intimately acquainted. Lady Skettles kissed him, and patted his hair upon his brow, and held him in her arms; and even Mrs Baps poor Mrs Baps!
Mr Carker smiled and bowed low, and being charged by Sir Barnet with the best compliments of himself and Lady Skettles, took his leave, and rode away: leaving a favourable impression on that worthy couple. Florence was seized with such a shudder as he went, that Sir Barnet, adopting the popular superstition, supposed somebody was passing over her grave.
This was the order of procedure on the afternoon in question; and Florence had almost succeeded in overruling the present objections of Skettles Junior to his destiny, when a gentleman on horseback came riding by, looked at them earnestly as he passed, drew in his rein, wheeled round, and came riding back again, hat in hand.
Sir Barnet replied, that nothing on earth was easier, as he knew him very well: immediately called on the aforesaid somebody, left his card, wrote a short note, 'My dear Sir penalty of your eminent position friend at my house naturally desirous Lady Skettles and myself participate trust that genius being superior to ceremonies, you will do us the distinguished favour of giving us the pleasure, etc, etc. and so killed a brace of birds with one stone, dead as door-nails.
'Barnet, to Master Skettles, who was revenging himself for the studies to come, on the plum-cake, 'this is a young gentleman you ought to know. This is a young gentleman you may know, Barnet, said Sir Barnet Skettles, with an emphasis on the permission. 'What eyes! What hair! What a lovely face! exclaimed Lady Skettles softly, as she looked at Florence through her glass.
Barnet, to say the truth, appeared to entertain an opposite sentiment on the subject, and on such occasions frequently expressed himself audibly, though indefinitely, in reference to 'a parcel of girls. As it was not easy to ruffle her sweet temper, however, Florence generally reconciled the young gentleman to his fate after a few minutes, and they strolled on amicably: Lady Skettles and Sir Barnet following, in a state of perfect complacency and high gratification.
The father and his sick daughter were yet fresh in Florence's mind, and, indeed, that incident was not a week old, when Sir Barnet and his lady going out walking in the lanes one afternoon, proposed to her to bear them company. Florence readily consenting, Lady Skettles ordered out young Barnet as a matter of course.
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