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Porter, in company with Tiggs and Jenkins Derby's American assistants had been left at the inn in the town, but Derby was anxious to present his letter as soon as possible, in order that there might be no delay in commencing work at the mines.
Dazzled with emotions which I cannot describe, and which she dared not reveal, Mrs. Chuff, followed by her children and son-in-law, walked wondering amongst these blundering splendours. Chuff saw, was Tiggs. He was lying on a crimson-velvet sofa, reading a French novel of Paul de Kock. It was a very little book. He is a very little man. In that enormous hall he looked like a mere speck.
Bless your heart, sir, there's ever so many Tiggs a-passin' this here Temple-gate any hour in the day, that only want a chance to turn out full-blown Montagues every one! 'Your ignorance, as you call it, Mark, said Mr Chuzzlewit, 'is wiser than some men's enlightenment, and mine among them. You are right; not for the first time to-day. Now hear me out, my dears.
Tiggs and Jenkins are to meet me at the Engineers' Club at noon. I am sure I can get off to-morrow." Mr. Randolph held the younger man's hand in a long clasp as he said, "Good-by, my boy, and luck to you!" As Derby left the office, the sudden prospect of seeing Nina so soon set his thoughts in a turmoil unusual to the condition in which he managed pretty steadily to keep them.
Derby rode his own horse, but by the time he reached the mine, he had lost so much blood that he was pretty fit for the doctor himself. Tiggs, a lean, wiry Yankee, sandy-haired and resourceful, was a tolerable surgeon, and he plastered Derby up, pronouncing the injury nothing more serious than a flesh wound. Luigi Calluci meanwhile was carried into the hut of his brother and put to bed.
"Jenkins came on with me, for one, and I am pretty sure I can get a man named Tiggs a good mechanic, who was with me at Copper Rock." "And how soon can you get your machinery? You'll have to take everything in that line with you. Otherwise, you might get off by to-morrow? The Lusitania sails in the afternoon." He added this last with impatient regret.
As soon as his belongings were unpacked, Porter, with an eye for beauty as well as a view to making himself popular, began to draw a pencil sketch of the little Marcella, a witch of five and beautiful as a doll. Tiggs and Jenkins saw to the unloading of the mules. But Derby and the carabinieri, with Padre Filippo, after a hasty luncheon of bread, figs, and goats' milk, pushed on to the mines.
Tiggs does not ring the bell and cause the library-waiter to walk about a quarter of a mile in order to give him Vol. II., which lies on the next table. Growler has ceased to walk from table to table in the coffee-room, and inspect what people are having for dinner.
As the ladies passed breathless and trembling in the vastness of the magnificent solitude, he threw a knowing, killing glance at the fair strangers, as much as to say, 'Ain't I a fine fellow? They thought so, I am sure. 'WHO IS THAT? hisses out Mrs. Chuff, when we were about fifty yards off him at the other end of the room. 'Tiggs! says I, in a similar whisper.
The saddled animals, which were to carry the members of the party were held at a short distance while the men were seeing to the final preparations. Four horses had been procured for Derby, Porter, Tiggs, and Jenkins; the carabinieri had their own horses, and Padre Filippo his mule.
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