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His apology was accepted; but Mrs Sparkler requested him to go round to the other side of the sofa and sit in the window-curtain, to tone himself down.
"What has she got to do with Harrison?" "Engaged to him that's all. See that sparkler on her finger? Wouldn't it give you a jolt that a nice little girl like her would take up with a stiff like Harrison?" "What's her mother thinking about?" asked the cowpuncher under cover of the conversation that was humming briskly all around the tables. Daisy lifted her shoulders in a careless little shrug.
"It might as well be now!" he paraphrased, to the tune of the age-whitened sextette from "Floradora." "And look at the sparkler! Look at it!" Fairchild could do very little else but look. He knew the value, even in spite of flaws and bad coloring. And he knew something else, that Harry had confessed to having little more than five hundred dollars. "But but how did you do it?" came gaspingly.
This was observable when Bar said, incidentally, that he was happy to have heard that we were soon to have the advantage of enlisting on the good side, the sound and plain sagacity not demonstrative or ostentatious, but thoroughly sound and practical of our friend Mr Sparkler. Ferdinand Barnacle laughed, and said oh yes, he believed so. A vote was a vote, and always acceptable.
'My love, you're quite right, said Mr Sparkler, 'and I know I have a habit of it. What I wished to declare was, that nothing can be a greater happiness to myself, myself-next to the happiness of being united to pre-eminently the most glorious of girls than to have the happiness of cultivating the affectionate acquaintance of Amy.
'By the way, I am informed Shrapnel has a young female relative living with him, said to be a sparkler. I bet you, sir, she is not a Radical. Do you take me? Rosamund Culling drove to the railway station on her way to Bevisham within an hour after Mr. Romfrey's eyebrows had made acute play over this communication.
He spoke, and moved forward beside Fanny. She started again to find Blandois close to her, handing Fanny into the boat. 'Gowan has had a loss, he said, 'since he was made happy to-day by a visit from fair ladies. 'A loss? repeated Fanny, relinquished by the bereaved Sparkler, and taking her seat. 'A loss, said Blandois. 'His dog Lion. Little Dorrit's hand was in his, as he spoke.
'My dear, answered Mr Sparkler; 'being as you are well known to be, a remarkably fine woman with no 'Oh, good GRACIOUS! cried Fanny.
S was in great spirits, and played the sparkler with such great success as to silence the whole of us excepting Jim, who was the agreeable rattle of the evening. God defend me from such vivacity as hers, in future, such smart speeches without meaning, such bubble and squeak nonsense! I'd as lieve stand by a frying-pan for an hour and listen to the cooking of apple fritters.
If Fanny had been charming in the morning, she was now thrice charming, very becomingly dressed in her most suitable colours, and with an air of negligence upon her that doubled Mr Sparkler's fetters, and riveted them. 'I hear you are acquainted, Mr Sparkler, said his host at dinner, 'with ha Mr Gowan. Mr Henry Gowan? 'Perfectly, sir, returned Mr Sparkler.
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