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Here, at a stroke, and before entering the house, he had the whole neighbourhood about him: he could feel that he and Nataly stood in the minds of the worthy people variously with the brightness if not with the warmth distinguishable in the bosom of Beaves Urmsing the idea of whom gave Lakelands an immediate hearth-glow. Armandine was thirteen minutes, by his watch, behind the time she had named.
Beaves Urmsing grew courtly of the olden time. He spied Colonel Corfe anew, and 'Donkey! rose to split the roar at his mouth, and full of his anecdote, he pursued some congenial acquaintances, crying to his host: 'Wednesday, mind! eh? by George, your friend's gizzarded me for the day!
'And the mother lived? said Fenellan. Mr. Beaves Urmsing puffed with wrath at the fellow. Five minutes later, in the midst of the group surrounding and felicitating Victor, he had sight of Fenellan conversing with fair ones, and it struck a light in him; he went three steps backward, with shouts. 'Dam funny fellow! eh? who is he? I must have that man at my table. Worth fifty Colonel Jackasses!
The colonel's eyebrows were up in fixity over sleepy lids. He brightened to propose the conducting of the pretty woman to the banquet. 'We shall see them going in, said she. 'Mr. Radnor has a French cook, who does wonders. But I heard him asking for Mr. Beaves Urmsing. I'm sure he expected The Marigolds at his Concert.
'The invitation at last, for to-morrow, Sunday, four P.M. Odd, that next day at eight of the evening I shall be addressing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, Tory though he is. Those Tories are jollier fellows than well, no wonder! There will be no surgical . . . the poor woman is very low. A couple of days at the outside. Of course, I go.
Then she turned to a fresh satellite, a round and a ruddy, 'at her service ever, Mr. Beaves Urmsing, and repeated Fenellan's words. He, in unfeigned wonderment at such unsuspected powers, cried: 'Dear me! and stared at the little man, making the pretty lady's face a twinkling dew. He had missed the Concert. Was it first-rate? Ecstasy answered in the female voice.
No, we don't repeat the error of Crayc Farm and Creckholt. And here we have stout friends. Not to speak of Beaver Urmsing: a picture of Old Christmas England! You took to him? must have taken to Beaver Urmsing! The Marigolds! And Sir Rodwell and Lady Blachington are altogether above the mark of Sir Humphrey and Lady Pottil, and those half and half Mountneys.
Pempton knew something of this quaint Squire of Hefferstone, Beaves Urmsing by name; a ruddy man, right heartily Saxon; a still glowing brand amid the ashes of the Heptarchy hearthstone; who had a song, The Marigolds, which he would troll out for you anywhere, on any occasion. To have so near to the metropolis one from the centre of the venerable rotundity of the country, was rare.
Beaves Urmsing brutally addressed the colonel, 'that you were at Eton when . . . why, what age do you give the poor woman, then! He bellowed, 'Eh? as it were a bull crowing. The colonel retreated to one of his defensive corners. 'I am not aware that I meant to tell you anything. Mr. Beaves Urmsing turned square-breasted on Fenellan: 'Fellow's a born donkey!
'Or else she means this for the final stroke: "though I'm lying here, I can still make him feel." That, or poor woman she has her notions of right and wrong. 'Could we not now travel for a few weeks, Victor? 'Certainly, dear; we will, after we have kept our engagements to dine I accepted with the Blathenoys, the Blachingtons, Beaver Urmsing.
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