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Updated: May 13, 2025
'Now, Ma, said Bella, pushing back her hair from her temples with both hands, 'what's first? 'First, returned Mrs Wilfer solemnly, 'if you persist in what I cannot but regard as conduct utterly incompatible with the equipage in which you arrived 'First, then, you put the fowls down to the fire.
'Upon my word, returned Bella, 'I forget what it says, but you can find out for yourself if you like, Mr Rokesmith. I don't want it any more. The Secretary took the book she had fluttered the leaves as if it were a fan and walked beside her. 'I am charged with a message for you, Miss Wilfer. 'Impossible, I think! said Bella, with another drawl. 'From Mrs Boffin.
We want to brisk her up, and brisk her about, and give her a change. 'That's it! said the open-hearted Mrs Boffin. 'Lor! Let's be comfortable. Mrs Wilfer bent her head in a distant manner to her lady visitor, and with majestic monotony replied to the gentleman: 'Pardon me. I have several daughters.
Wilfer was a handsome young fellow in those days, and while on one of his wandering tours in Kent he met and won the heart of a simple little country girl, named Lucy Goodwin.
'Ma, Miss Lavinia interposed, 'there can be no objection to your being aggravating, because Bella richly deserves it; but I really must request that you will not drag in such ridiculous nonsense as my having grown when I am past the growing age. 'I grew, myself, Mrs Wilfer sternly proclaimed, 'after I was married.
The condescension with which Mrs Wilfer delivered this proclamation of patronage, was as wonderful as the swiftness with which the lodger had lost caste in the Secretary. He smiled as the mother retired down stairs; but his face fell, as the daughter followed. 'So insolent, so trivial, so capricious, so mercenary, so careless, so hard to touch, so hard to turn! he said, bitterly.
'I congratulate you, Mrs Wilfer, said Mr George Sampson, who had meditated this neat address while coming along, 'on the day. Mrs Wilfer thanked him with a magnanimous sigh, and again became an unresisting prey to that inscrutable toothache. 'I am surprised, said Mr Sampson feebly, 'that Miss Bella condescends to cook.
'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.
I don't choose to. And I won't! Lavinia's engineering having made this crooked opening at Bella, Mrs Wilfer strode into it. 'You rebellious spirit! You mutinous child! Tell me this, Lavinia. If in violation of your mother's sentiments, you had condescended to allow yourself to be patronized by the Boffins, and if you had come from those halls of slavery
'I should hope, returned Mrs Lammle, with a scornful look and in a loud voice, 'that if I were anything to your wife, sir, I could hardly fail to be something more than Miss Bella Wilfer, as you call her. 'What do YOU call her, ma'am? asked Mr Boffin. Mrs Lammle disdained to reply, and sat defiantly beating one foot on the ground. 'Again I think I may say, that's not impossible.
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