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Mr George Sampson shortly afterwards took his leave, accompanied by Miss Lavinia with a candle as far as the hall, and without a candle as far as the garden gate; Mrs Wilfer, washing her hands of the Boffins, went to bed after the manner of Lady Macbeth; and R. W. was left alone among the dilapidations of the supper table, in a melancholy attitude.
He decided to go round by the house, arguing, as he carried his overcoat upon his arm, that it was less likely to attract notice if left there, than if taken to Holloway: both Mrs Wilfer and Miss Lavinia being ravenously curious touching every article of which the lodger stood possessed. Arriving at the house, he found that Mr and Mrs Boffin were out, but that Miss Wilfer was in the drawing-room.
'I can hardly believe, thought Bella, that I ever did endure life in this place! Gloomy majesty on the part of Mrs Wilfer, and native pertness on the part of Lavvy, did not mend the matter. Bella really stood in natural need of a little help, and she got none.
'To be sure, my dear, he returned, with a most flagrant assumption of unconsciousness, 'I did omit it. How or perhaps I should rather say where IS Bella? 'Not here, Mrs Wilfer proclaimed, with folded arms. The cherub faintly muttered something to the abortive effect of 'Oh, indeed, my dear! 'Not here, repeated Mrs Wilfer, in a stern sonorous voice.
So, Bella and the fowls, by the united energies of two horses, two men, four wheels, and a plum-pudding carriage dog with as uncomfortable a collar on as if he had been George the Fourth, were deposited at the door of the parental dwelling. They were there received by Mrs Wilfer in person, whose dignity on this, as on most special occasions, was heightened by a mysterious toothache.
Thence she despatched 'the male domestic of Mrs Boffin, in search of the counting-house of Chicksey Veneering and Stobbles, with a message importing that if R. Wilfer could come out, there was a lady waiting who would be glad to speak with him.
Meanwhile, Jessica, at the first sound of a strange voice, and afraid of being sought for by Wilfer, had concealed herself at the back of the house. Jasper looked round the room in mock admiration. "What a delightful little place you have here," he continued. "Most charming! Commerce and romance mingled together, I declare.
'Never mind me and Mrs Boffin, ma'am, said Mr Boffin, smilingly: 'we don't care. 'Pardon me, but I do, returned Mrs Wilfer. Miss Lavinia laughed a short laugh as she muttered, 'Yes, to be sure.
The front garden-gate clanked, and the Secretary was seen coming at a brisk pace up the steps. 'Leave Me to open the door to him, said Mrs Wilfer, rising with stately resignation as she shook her head and dried her eyes; 'we have at present no stipendiary girl to do so. We have nothing to conceal. If he sees these traces of emotion on our cheeks, let him construe them as he may.
ASTHORE and DOLLY. The generality of the advertisements named by you are not to be relied on, and we advise your not spending your money as you propose. LARRY WILFER. Female art scholarships are conferred by the Slade School, by the Crystal Palace School of Art, and by the National Art Training School, South Kensington. Apply for farther information to the secretaries of each of these schools.
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