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Mr Cheggs hastened to tender his hand to Miss Sophy, and Mr Swiviller sat himself down in a corner in a very moody state.
At these words Richard Swiviller withdrew his eyes from Mr Chegg's face, and travelling down the middle of his nose and down his waistcoat and down his right leg, reached his toes again, and carefully surveyed him; this done, he crossed over, and coming up the other leg, and thence approaching by the waistcoat as before, said when had got to his eyes, 'No sir, I haven't.
'You must dance with Miss Chegs, said Miss Sophy to Dick Swiviller, after she had herself danced twice with Mr Cheggs and made great show of encouraging his advances. 'She's a nice girl and her brother's quite delightful. 'Quite delightful, is he? muttered Dick. 'Quite delighted too, I should say, from the manner in which he's looking this way. 'Jealous!
Like his impudence! said Richard Swiviller. 'His impudence, Mr Swiviller! said Miss Jane, tossing her head. 'Take care he don't hear you, sir, or you may be sorry for it. 'Oh, pray, Jane said Miss Sophy. 'Nonsense! replied her sister. 'Why shouldn't Mr Cheggs be jealous if he likes? I like that, certainly.
'There's one good thing springs out of all this, said Richard Swiviller to himself when he had reached home and was hanging over the candle with the extinguisher in his hand, 'which is, that I now go heart and soul, neck and heels, with Fred in all his scheme about little Nelly, and right glad he'll be to find me so strong upon it.
Though this was a concerted plot between Miss Sophy and her sister, originating in humane intentions and having for its object the inducing Mr Swiviller to declare himself in time, it failed in its effect; for Miss Jane being one of those young ladies who are prematurely shrill and shrewish, gave such undue importance to her part that Mr Swiviller retired in dudgeon, resigning his mistress to Mr Cheggs and conveying a defiance into his looks which that gentleman indignantly returned.
'I am sure I don't know what you mean, Mr Swiviller, said Miss Sophy with downcast eyes. 'I'm very sorry if 'Sorry, Ma'am! said Dick, 'sorry in the possession of a Cheegs!
Mr Swiviller looked with a supercilious smile at Mr Chegg's toes, then raised his eyes from them to his ankles, from that to his shin, from that to his knee, and so on very gradually, keeping up his right leg, until he reached his waistcoat, when he raised his eyes from button to button until he reached his chin, and travelling straight up the middle of his nose came at last to his eyes, when he said abruptly,
In a very few minutes Mr Swiviller was fast asleep, dreaming that he had married Nelly Trent and come into the property, and that his first act of power was to lay waste the market-garden of Mr Cheggs and turn it into a brick-field.
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