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"Go to your own room, woman, directly, or I'll make you!" "Make me!" echoed Mrs. Maggot, bursting into a loud contemptuous laugh. "Try!" Enraged at the assurance of his mistress, the woollen-draper endeavoured to carry his threat into execution, but all his efforts to remove her were unavailing.
"He then," continued the woollen-draper, "is no longer considered " "How, Sir?" cried Thames, advancing, "what is the meaning of your reference to my name? Have you dared to insult this lady? If so " "Insult her!" replied Kneebone, rising, and endeavouring to hide his embarrassment under a look of defiance. "Far from, it, Sir.
Blueskin, meanwhile, having drained and replenished his glass, commenced chaunting a snatch of a ballad: Once on a time, as I've heard tell. In Wych Street Owen Wood did dwell; A carpenter he was by trade, And money, I believe, he made. With his foodle doo! This carpenter he had a wife, The plague and torment of his life, Who, though she did her husband scold, Loved well a woollen-draper bold.
Jack submitted to this scrutiny with a very bad grace, and vehemently protested his innocence. In vain did the woollen-draper offer to set him free if he would restore the stolen article, or give up his associate, to whom it was supposed he might have handed it.
And now will I favour thee with a brief account of our present situation. From the highest to the lowest we are all extremely happy. Dorcas stands well in her lady's graces. Polly has asked her advice in relation to a courtship-affair of her own. No oracle ever gave better. Sally has had a quarrel with her woollen-draper; and made my charmer lady-chancellor in it.
"Don't agitate yourself, dearest girl," rejoined the woollen-draper; "or I shall never be able to commence my relation." "I am calm perfectly calm," replied Winifred. "Pray, make no further mystery; but tell me all without reserve." "Since you require it, I must obey," replied Kneebone; "but prepare yourself for a terrible shock." "For mercy's sake, go on!" cried Winifred.
Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place. "And so, there she had set, without an idea of any thing in the world, full ten minutes, perhaps when, all of a sudden, who should come in to be sure it was so very odd! but they always dealt at Ford's who should come in, but Elizabeth Martin and her brother!
Wood, in a whisper, as he filled a rummer to the brim, not to forget the health of the Chevalier de Saint George a proposition to which the lady immediately responded by drinking the toast aloud. "The Chevalier shall hear of this," whispered the woollen-draper. "You don't say so!" replied Mrs. Wood, delighted at the idea. Mr.
Here he halted; and, looking upwards, read, at the foot of an immense sign-board, displaying a gaudily-painted angel with expanded pinions and an olive-branch, not the name he expected to find, but that of WILLIAM KNEEBONE, WOOLLEN-DRAPER.
"Of course," rejoined Kneebone, a little maliciously, "but that's easily accounted for. May I be permitted, as a very old and very dear friend of your lamented parent, whose loss I shall ever deplore, to ask you one question?" "Undoubtedly," replied Winifred. "And you will answer it frankly?" "Certainly." "Now for it," thought the woollen-draper, "I shall, at least, ascertain how the land lies.
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