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Twemlow gasped 'Nothing but come. 'Nothing but come. And so I came.
Then Twemlow and the doctor said that they must leave. 'Nay, nay, Meshach complained. 'There's the will to be read. It's right and proper as all the guests should hear the will, and it'll take nobbut a few minutes. The enfeebled old man talked more and more the dialect which his father and mother had talked over his cradle. 'Better without us, old friend! the doctor said jauntily.
Meanwhile Twemlow, in an increasing hurry of spirits, gets his hair down as well as he can which is not very well; for, after these glutinous applications it is restive, and has a surface on it somewhat in the nature of pastry and gets to the club by the appointed time.
I try to be fair to everybody, but I cannot help blaming every one, when I come to remember how blind we have been. Captain Stubbard must have been so blind, and Mrs. Stubbard a great deal worse, and worst of all his own aunt, Mrs. Twemlow. Oh, Lord Nelson, if you had only stopped here, instead of hurrying away for more glory!
'Not at all caring for, and indeed as it seems to me rather enjoying, said Fledgeby, with peculiar unction, 'the precious kick-up and row that will come off between Mr Twemlow and the said great party? This required no answer, and received none. Poor Mr Twemlow, who had betrayed the keenest mental terrors since his noble kinsman loomed in the perspective, rose with a sigh to take his departure.
Whereupon, having re-shaken hands with Veneering as Veneering, he re-shakes hands with Twemlow as Twemlow, and winds it all up to his own perfect satisfaction by saying to the last-named, 'Ridiculous opportunity but so glad of it, I am sure!
Is he to be grinding at Virgil and Ovid till all his spirit goes out of him, because we have patched up a very shabby peace? It can never last long. Every Englishman hates it, although it may seem to save his pocket. Twemlow, I am no politician. You read the papers more than I do. How much longer will this wretched compact hold? You have predicted the course of things before."
As to Twemlow, he is so sensible of being a much better bred man than Veneering, that he considers the large man an offensive ass. In this complicated dilemma, Mr Veneering approaches the large man with extended hand and, smilingly assures that incorrigible personage that he is delighted to see him: who in his fatal freshness instantly replies: 'Thank you.
At the same moment, Arthur Twemlow and Ethel entered the garden together. The social atmosphere was rendered bracing by this invasion of the masculine; every personality awoke and became vigilantly itself. 'We met Mr. Twemlow on the marsh, mother, walking from Oldcastle to Bursley, said Ethel, after the ritual of greeting, 'and so we brought him in.
I said to Anastatia before leaving home just now to come to you of course the first friend I have seen on a subject so momentous to me, my dear Twemlow I said to Anastatia, "We must work." 'You were right, you were right, replies Twemlow. 'Tell me. Is SHE working? 'She is, says Veneering. 'Good! cries Twemlow, polite little gentleman that he is. 'A woman's tact is invaluable.
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