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He wished you to have it, as a little keepsake he had prepared it is only a purse, Miss Wilfer but as he was disappointed in his fancy, I volunteered to come after you with it. Bella took it in her hand, and thanked him. 'We have been quarrelling here a little, Mr Rokesmith, but not more than we used; you know our agreeable ways among ourselves. You find me just going. Good-bye, mamma.
Among the most remarkable effects of this crisis may be mentioned its having, when peace was restored, an inexplicable moral influence, of an elevating kind, on Miss Lavinia, Mrs Wilfer, and Mr George Sampson, from which R. W. was altogether excluded, as an outsider and non-sympathizer.
The young lady's lamentations were checked at this point by a knuckle, knocking at the half-open door of the room. The knuckle had knocked two or three times already, but had not been heard. 'Who is it? said Mrs Wilfer, in her Act-of-Parliament manner. 'Enter!
I have not been thinking of the evening. 'So intent upon your book? 'Ye-e-es, replied Bella, with a drawl of indifference. 'A love story, Miss Wilfer? 'Oh dear no, or I shouldn't be reading it. It's more about money than anything else. 'And does it say that money is better than anything?
He tried to push past Vermont and thus effect his escape; but he was not to get off so lightly. Jasper removed his cigar, which he had been puffing, and dropping his soft, mocking tone, said sternly: "Stand back; go and sit on that bench. I haven't done with you yet, Johann Wilfer." "I shan't," was that worthy's prompt answer.
'Just so, said the Secretary. 'In confidence, I assure you, Mr Rokesmith, observed the cheerful cherub, 'that when more of my family were at home and to be provided for, I used to remind myself immensely of that king. You have no idea, as a single man, of the difficulty I have had in wearing more than one good article at a time. 'I can easily believe it, Mr Wilfer.
'Why put it so? demanded Mrs Wilfer, with biting sarcasm. 'Why adopt a circuitous form of speech? It is polite and it is obliging; but why do it? Why not openly say that they are much too kind and too good for US? We understand the allusion. Why disguise the phrase? 'Ma, said Bella, with one beat of her foot, 'you are enough to drive a saint mad, and so is Lavvy.
Likewise, for Mrs Henry George Alfred Swoshle NEE Tapkins. Likewise, for Mrs Tapkins at Home, Wednesdays, Music, Portland Place. Tradesmen's books hunger, and tradesmen's mouths water, for the gold dust of the Golden Dustman. As Mrs Boffin and Miss Wilfer drive out, or as Mr Boffin walks out at his jog-trot pace, the fishmonger pulls off his hat with an air of reverence founded on conviction.
Near unto the Reverend Frank Milvey as he read, stood his little wife, John Rokesmith the Secretary, and Bella Wilfer. These, over and above Sloppy, were the mourners at the lowly grave. Not a penny had been added to the money sewn in her dress: what her honest spirit had so long projected, was fulfilled.
Johann Wilfer saw Mr. Harker, and notwithstanding the changes which time brings to us all, and the entire transformation of name and surroundings, recognised him as the father of the girl whom he had once so cruelly deceived.
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