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This conjunction of circumstances led to his immediately afterwards presenting himself before the young ladies in a posture, which in ancient times would not have been considered one of favourable augury for his suit; since the gondoliers of the young ladies, having been put to some inconvenience by the chase, so neatly brought their own boat in the gentlest collision with the bark of Mr Sparkler, as to tip that gentleman over like a larger species of ninepin, and cause him to exhibit the soles of his shoes to the object of his dearest wishes: while the nobler portions of his anatomy struggled at the bottom of his boat in the arms of one of his men.
Willoughby was inexhaustible in the happy similes he poured out to Miss Durham across the lines of Sir Roger de Coverley, and they were not forgotten, they procured him a reputation as a convivial sparkler.
I bought the biggest old sparkler in this town and sent it out with Y.D., if he didn't lose it through the lining of his vest he handled it like it might have been a box of pills bad pills, Linder and I've got an architect figuring how much expense he can put on a house he gets a commission on the cost, you see and one of these nights I'm going to buy you a dinner that'll keep you fed till Christmas.
But we don't live under leaves, and keep cows and sheep and creatures. I perfectly exhaust myself sometimes, in pointing out the distinction to Edmund Sparkler.
Mr Sparkler, as if in attendance to some compact, scarcely ever spoke without first looking towards Fanny for leave. That young lady was too discreet ever to look back again; but, if Mr Sparkler had permission to speak, she remained silent; if he had not, she herself spoke.
Mr Sparkler, in absence of mind perhaps in a more literal absence of mind than is usually understood by the phrase had smelt so hard at a sprig in his hand as to be on the verge of the offence in question. He smiled, said, 'I ask your pardon, my dear, and threw it out of window.
For not only are the virtues of the precious child of that still character that they require a contrast require life and movement around them to bring them out in their right colours and make one love them of all things; but she will require to be roused, on more accounts than one. 'That's it, said Mr Sparkler. 'Roused. 'Pray don't, Edmund!
There was no shadow of Mr Merdle's complaint on the bosom now displaying precious stones in rivalry with many similar superb jewel-stands; there was no shadow of Mr Merdle's complaint on young Sparkler hovering about the rooms, monomaniacally seeking any sufficiently ineligible young lady with no nonsense about her; there was no shadow of Mr Merdle's complaint on the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings, of whom whole colonies were present; or on any of the company.
'Martigny, assented her brother, with a slight nod and a slight wink; in acknowledgment of which, Miss Fanny looked surprised, and laughed and reddened. 'How can that be, Edward? said Mr Dorrit. 'You informed me that the name of the gentleman with whom you conferred was ha Sparkler. Indeed, you showed me his card. Hum. Sparkler.
'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.
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