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But Lord Frederick Verisopht was both, and took them to be complimentary. 'Well, he said, 'p'raps you're a little right, and p'raps you're a little wrong a little of both, Nickleby. I want to know where this beauty lives, that I may have another peep at her, Nickleby. 'Really Ralph began in his usual tones.
'You needn't suppose, resumed Mrs Wititterly, 'that your looking at me in that way, Miss Nickleby, will prevent my saying what I am going to say, which I feel to be a religious duty. You needn't direct your glances towards me, said Mrs Wititterly, with a sudden burst of spite; 'I am not Sir Mulberry, no, nor Lord Frederick Verisopht, Miss Nickleby, nor am I Mr Pyke, nor Mr Pluck either.
As he did so, he glanced warily round as though to assure himself of the impression which her unlooked-for appearance had created. 'An unexpected playsure, Nickleby, said Lord Frederick Verisopht, taking his glass out of his right eye, where it had, until now, done duty on Kate, and fixing it in his left, to bring it to bear on Ralph. 'Designed to surprise you, Lord Frederick, said Mr Pluck.
Pyke and Pluck promptly remarked that certainly nothing could be fairer than that; and the call having been by this time protracted to a very great length, they obeyed Sir Mulberry's look, and rose to go. This brought Sir Mulberry himself and Lord Verisopht on their legs also.
'Hear this discontented grumbler. Isn't it enough to make a man swear never to help him in his plots and schemes again? Isn't it an infernal shame? Pyke asked Pluck whether it was not an infernal shame, and Pluck asked Pyke; but neither answered. 'Isn't it the truth? demanded Verisopht. 'Wasn't it so? 'Wasn't it so! repeated Sir Mulberry. 'How would you have had it?
In sooth, a half-bred Pegasus, and far gone In spavin, curb, and half a hundred woes. And Byron's style is 'jolter-headed jargon; His verse is 'only bearable in prose. So living poets write of those that are gone, And o'er the Eagle thus the Bantam crows; And Swinburne ends where Verisopht began, By owning you 'a very clever man.
And thus for a fortnight matters went on. That any but the weakest and silliest of people could have seen in one interview that Lord Verisopht, though he was a lord, and Sir Mulberry Hawk, though he was a baronet, were not persons accustomed to be the best possible companions, and were certainly not calculated by habits, manners, tastes, or conversation, to shine with any very great lustre in the society of ladies, need scarcely be remarked.
Lord Frederick Verisopht, remarking that he would look in presently, strolled into the adjoining apartment, and closed the folding door behind him. Then was heard a subdued footstep on the stairs; and Ralph Nickleby, hat in hand, crept softly into the room, with his body bent forward as if in profound respect, and his eyes fixed upon the face of his worthy client.
Meanwhile, Lord Verisopht enjoyed unmolested the full flavour of the gold knob at the top of his cane, as he would have done to the end of the interview if Mr Wititterly had not come home, and caused the conversation to turn to his favourite topic. 'My lord, said Mr Wititterly, 'I am delighted honoured proud. Be seated again, my lord, pray. I am proud, indeed most proud.
Lord Frederick Verisopht remained in the next box to be talked to by Mrs Wititterly, and Mr Pyke was in attendance to throw in a word or two when necessary.
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