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Updated: June 19, 2025
'Then there were two fools together, said Georgiana, who at this moment was very unhappy. 'Mr Whitstable is an excellent young man, and I am sure he will make your sister happy; but as for Mr Brehgert, I can't bear to have his name mentioned in my hearing. 'Then, mamma, it had better not be mentioned.
'They had neither of them a shilling of money, said Georgey through her tears. 'And your papa says this man was next door to a bankrupt. But it's all over? 'Yes, mamma. 'And now we must all remain here at Caversham till people forget it. It has been very hard upon George Whitstable, because of course everybody has known it through the county.
She had always given herself credit for high spirits, but she began to fear that her courage would not suffice to carry her through sufferings such as these. On the next day her father returned to town, and the three ladies were left alone. Great preparations were going on for the Whitstable wedding.
She was now almost reconciled to the sojourn in the country, because it inflicted a fitting punishment on Georgiana, and the presence of Mr Whitstable at a distance of not more than ten miles did of course make a difference to herself. Lady Pomona complained of a headache, which was always an excuse with her for not speaking; and Mr Longestaffe went to sleep.
A picnic party was dispersed at Aldington Knoll and all its sweets and jam consumed, and a puppy was killed and torn to pieces near Whitstable under the very eyes of its mistress.... The streets that evening resounded with the cry, the newspaper placards gave themselves up exclusively in the biggest of letters to the "Gigantic Wasps in Kent."
The preparations for the Whitstable marriage went on without any apparent attention to the intimacy which was growing up between Mr Batherbolt and Georgiana. There was no room to apprehend anything wrong on that side.
'Then Mr Whitstable may keep himself at home at Toodlam and not trouble his head at all about me or my husband. I'm sure I shan't trouble myself as to what a poor creature like that may think about me. George Whitstable knows as much about London as I do about the moon. 'He has always been in county society, said Sophia, 'and was staying only the other day at Lord Cantab's.
Sophia in her pride of place had become a tyrant, and George Whitstable, petted in the house with those sweetmeats which are always showered on embryo bridegrooms, absolutely gave himself airs. At this time Mr Longestaffe was never at home.
'I shan't run away with George Whitstable; you may be sure of that. I'll tell you what I shall do, I will write papa a letter. I suppose he'll condescend to read it. If he won't take me up to town himself, he must send me up to the Primeros. What makes me most angry in the whole thing is that we should have condescended to be civil to the Melmottes down in the country.
He must be a man with a place in the country and sufficient means to bring him annually to London. He must be a gentleman, and, probably, in parliament. And above all things he must be in the right set. She would rather go on for ever struggling than take some country Whitstable as her sister was about to do. But now the men of the right sort never came near her.
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