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Mr Riah, if you would have the kindness to step into the next room for a few moments while I speak with Mr Lammle here, I should like to try to make terms with you once again before you go. The old man, who had never raised his eyes during the whole transaction of Mr Fledgeby's joke, silently bowed and passed out by the door which Fledgeby opened for him.
Well, say Georgeute I mean Georgiana. 'You were going to remark of Georgiana ? Lammle moodily hinted, after waiting in vain. 'I was going to remark of Georgiana, sir, said Fledgeby, not at all pleased to be reminded of his having forgotten it, 'that she don't seem to be violent. Don't seem to be of the pitching-in order. 'She has the gentleness of the dove, Mr Fledgeby.
The old man stood irresolute and uncertain for a moment, as if there might be further instructions for him in reserve. 'Do I go, sir? he at length asked in a low voice. 'Asks me if he is going! exclaimed Fledgeby. 'Asks me, as if he didn't know his own purpose! Asks me, as if he hadn't got his hat on ready!
'Can you make up your mind to tell me where you saw Mr Fledgeby, Mr Twemlow? 'I beg your pardon. I fully intended to have done so. The reservation was not intentional. I encountered Mr Fledgeby, quite by accident, on the spot. By the expression, on the spot, I mean at Mr Riah's in Saint Mary Axe. 'Have you the misfortune to be in Mr Riah's hands then?
'Don't go on posturing like a Deaf and Dumb School, said the ingenious Fledgeby, 'but express yourself like a Christian or as nearly as you can. 'I had had sickness and misfortunes, and was so poor, said the old man, 'as hopelessly to owe the father, principal and interest. The son inheriting, was so merciful as to forgive me both, and place me here.
But when it comes to squeezing a profit out of you into the bargain, it's something like! With this apostrophe Mr Fledgeby appropriately proceeded to divest himself of his Turkish garments, and invest himself with Christian attire. If it had never let him out any more, the world would have had no irreparable loss, but could have easily replaced him from its stock on hand.
'Always, replied Lammle, glooming considerably under his late treatment. 'Came natural to you, eh? said Fledgeby. 'The sex were pleased to like me, sir, said Lammle sulkily, but with the air of a man who had not been able to help himself. 'Made a pretty good thing of marrying, didn't you? asked Fledgeby. 'My late governor made a mess of it, said Fledgeby.
'I am attending, sir, replied Miss Wren, without the slightest appearance of so doing. 'Another touch of blue in your trimming, my dear. 'Well, look here, said Fledgeby, rather discouraged by the circumstances under which he found himself pursuing the conversation. 'If you're attending 'I say, if you're attending, proceeded Fledgeby, 'it'll pay better in this way.
You're one of the Patriarchs; you're a shaky old card; and you can't be in love with this Lizzie? 'O, sir! expostulated Riah. 'O, sir, sir, sir! 'Then why, retorted Fledgeby, with some slight tinge of a blush, 'don't you out with your reason for having your spoon in the soup at all? 'Sir, I will tell you the truth. 'Honour too! cried Fledgeby, with a mocking lip. 'Honour among Jews. Well.
Fledgeby has devoted the interval to taking an observation of Boots's whiskers, Brewer's whiskers, and Lammle's whiskers, and considering which pattern of whisker he would prefer to produce out of himself by friction, if the Genie of the cheek would only answer to his rubbing. In the drawing-room, groups form as usual.
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