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Who is the nobleman holding his boots out of the hotel window an act which the Snob very properly declined to classify as snobbish? Or did Wenham's real name rhyme to Foker, as, according to the Mulligan, "Perkins rhymes to Jerkins, my man of firkins"? Posterity will insist on an answer, which will be nothing if not authentic. Posterity, pace Mr.
"But, father," she went on, "can't you see don't you know that it's his money Wenham's?" "It is not a matter, this, my child," the professor observed, sharply, "which we can discuss before strangers. Some day we will speak of it, you and I." "Has he been heard of?" she asked, in a whisper. The professor frowned.
By the way, were those clothes that were found of poor Wenham's identified as the clothes he wore when he left the house?" She shook her head. "One could not say for certain," she answered. "I never noticed how he was dressed. He wore nearly always the same sort of things, but he had an endless variety." "And this was seven months ago seven months." She assented. "Poor Wenham," he murmured.
At Flickerbridge, or wherever, on the other hand, strange to say, the parent stem had had a fortune comparatively meagre. Fortune, it was true, in the vulgarest sense, had attended neither party. Addie's immediate belongings were as poor as they were numerous, and he gathered that Miss Wenham's pretensions to wealth were not so marked as to expose the claim of kinship to the imputation of motive.
Wenham's headaches which prevented us she suffers under them a good deal, especially in the spring if we had come, and you had returned home, there would have been no quarrel, no insult, no suspicion and so it is positively because my poor wife has a headache that you are to bring death down upon two men of honour and plunge two of the most excellent and ancient families in the kingdom into disgrace and sorrow."
Wenham's bilious countenance was puckered up with malign pleasure as he read the critique. Lady Muffborough had not asked him to her parties during the last year.
Otherwise, scandal, separation, Doctors' Commons would ensue. But it was Mr. Wenham's business, Lord Steyne's business, Rawdon's, everybody's to get her out of the country, and hush up a most disagreeable affair.
The arrival of more company, among whom were several ladies, compelled Eve to defer an examination of Mr. Wenham's peculiarities to another opportunity.
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