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Miss Bella Wilfer becomes an inmate, for an indefinite period, of the eminently aristocratic dwelling. Mrs Boffin bears Miss Bella away to her Milliner's and Dressmaker's, and she gets beautifully dressed. The Veneerings find with swift remorse that they have omitted to invite Miss Bella Wilfer.
It may have been a weakness, but if so, it was equally the weakness, I believe, of King Frederick of Prussia. These remarks being offered to Mr George Sampson, who had not the courage to come out for single combat, but lurked with his chest under the table and his eyes cast down, Mrs Wilfer proceeded, in a voice of increasing sternness and impressiveness, until she should force that skulker to give himself up.
'I say, repeated Mrs Wilfer, with a vast access of grandeur, 'that I am NOT going to interpose objections. 'You use the word, ma'am, I have myself used, said Rokesmith, with a glance at Bella, 'when you speak of Miss Wilfer's attractions there. 'Pardon me, returned Mrs Wilfer, with dreadful solemnity, 'but I had not finished. 'Pray excuse me.
"Kindly make haste and tell me what you want, my good fellow," said Adrien impatiently. He did not know but that this was a preliminary to an attempt to rob him, and he was in no mood for a brawl. "Oh, I'll be quick enough for you," was the sullen reply. "You don't remember me, you say; p'raps you'll remember my name Wilfer Johann Wilfer."
His other women were merely the prizes the hero had to win in the end, like the sucking pig or the leg of mutton for which the yokel climbs the greasy pole. That Dickens could draw a woman to some likeness he proved by Bella Wilfer, and Estella in "Great Expectations." But real women have never been popular in fiction. Men readers prefer the false, and women readers object to the truth.
"I shall not require the carriage at night," said Bella. "I shall walk back." The male domestic of Mrs. Boffin touched his hat, and in the act of departure had an awful glare bestowed upon him by Mrs. Wilfer, intended to carry deep into his audacious soul the assurance that, whatever his private suspicions might be, male domestics in livery were no rarity there.
With that Mrs. Boffin gave her a kiss, which Bella frankly returned; and it was settled that Bella should be sent for as soon as they were ready to receive her. "By the bye, ma'am," said Mr. Boffin, as he was leaving, "you have a lodger?" "A gentleman," Mrs. Wilfer answered, "undoubtedly occupies our first floor." "I may call him our mutual friend," said Mr. Boffin.
George Sampson: bidden to the feast as a friend of the family, whose affections were now understood to be in course of transference from Bella to Lavinia, and whom Lavinia kept possibly in remembrance of his bad taste in having overlooked her in the first instance under a course of stinging discipline. "I congratulate you, Mrs. Wilfer," said Mr.
And now, the church-porch having swallowed up Bella Wilfer for ever and ever, had it not in its power to relinquish that young woman, but slid into the happy sunlight, Mrs John Rokesmith instead. And long on the bright steps stood Gruff and Glum, looking after the pretty bride, with a narcotic consciousness of having dreamed a dream.
Wilfer, "shall I say into a reverie, or shall I say into a retrospect? on a day like this." "The mind," pursued Mrs. Wilfer in an oratorical manner, "naturally reverts to Papa and Mama I here allude to my parents at a period before the earliest dawn of this day. I was considered tall; perhaps I was. Papa and Mama were unquestionably tall.
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