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And now Veneering shoots out of the Study wherein he is accustomed, when contemplative, to give his mind to the carving and gilding of the Pilgrims going to Canterbury, in order to show Twemlow the little flourish he has prepared for the trumpets of fashion, describing how that on the seventeenth instant, at St James's Church, the Reverend Blank Blank, assisted by the Reverend Dash Dash, united in the bonds of matrimony, Alfred Lammle Esquire, of Sackville Street, Piccadilly, to Sophronia, only daughter of the late Horatio Akershem, Esquire, of Yorkshire.
Even Parson Twemlow would not go near it later than the afternoon milking of the cows, and Captain Zeb would much rather face a whole gale of wind in a twelve-foot boat than give one glance at its dead calm face when the moon like a ghost stood over it. "She is going towards Corpse-walk pit," thought Scuddy "a cheerful place at this time of night!
John had returned from London blusterously cheerful, and Twemlow stood in the centre of his vehement noisy hospitality as in the centre of a typhoon. He consented to stay, because the two girls, with hair blown and still in their wet macintoshes, took him by the arm and said he must. He was not the first guest in that house whom the apparent heartiness of the host had failed to convince.
Meshach cackled in laughter. 'Ask your sister Alice, he replied, 'it's her as is interested, not you. You aren't in the will. 'But I don't want to ruin John Stanway, Twemlow protested. 'Ruin John! Meshach exclaimed, cackling again. 'Not you! We mun have no scandals in th' family. But you can go and see him, quiet-like, I reckon.
'Pray where did a circumstance so very extraordinary happen? Twemlow hesitates. He is shorter than the lady as well as weaker, and, as she stands above him with her hardened manner and her well-used eyes, he finds himself at such a disadvantage that he would like to be of the opposite sex. 'May I ask where it happened, Mr Twemlow? In strict confidence?
Not on weekdays, of course, but nearly every Sunday and the samples of his powder in his pocket, Mr. Twemlow!" "Jemima, you are spoiling my story altogether. Well, you must understand that this room was low, scarcely higher than the cabin of a fore-and-after, with no skylights to it, or wind-sail, or port-hole that would open.
'Up by the railway station, opposite your father's old works as was it's a row of villas now. 'Well, said Twemlow. 'That sounds pretty nice. I believe I'll get you to come around with me and show off the sights. Say! he added suddenly, 'do you remember being on that works one day when my poor father was on to me like half a hundred of bricks, and you said, "The boy's all right, Mr.
'That friend, Veneering repeats with greater firmness, 'is our dear good Twemlow.
'Can you make up your mind to tell me where you saw Mr Fledgeby, Mr Twemlow? 'I beg your pardon. I fully intended to have done so. The reservation was not intentional. I encountered Mr Fledgeby, quite by accident, on the spot. By the expression, on the spot, I mean at Mr Riah's in Saint Mary Axe. 'Have you the misfortune to be in Mr Riah's hands then?
So, Twemlow goes home to Duke Street, St James's, to take a plate of mutton broth with a chop in it, and a look at the marriage-service, in order that he may cut in at the right place to-morrow; and he is low, and feels it dull over the livery stable-yard, and is distinctly aware of a dint in his heart, made by the most adorable of the adorable bridesmaids.
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