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Mr Lammle's utmost powers of sparkling were in requisition to-day, for Fascination Fledgeby and Georgiana not only struck each other speechless, but struck each other into astonishing attitudes; Georgiana, as she sat facing Fledgeby, making such efforts to conceal her elbows as were totally incompatible with the use of a knife and fork; and Fledgeby, as he sat facing Georgiana, avoiding her countenance by every possible device, and betraying the discomposure of his mind in feeling for his whiskers with his spoon, his wine glass, and his bread.
Passing him with a courteous reverence, specially unlike any action that Mr Fledgeby could for his life have imparted to his own head and hands, the old man began to ascend the stairs.
'Don't play the tune of the trade, Mr Riah. You've a right to get in your debts, if you're determined to do it, but don't pretend what every one in your line regularly pretends. At least, don't do it to me. Why should you, Mr Riah? You know I know all about you. The old man clasped the skirt of his long coat with his disengaged hand, and directed a wistful look at Fledgeby.
The manager had put him down in the bill for the part, and he must play it. 'Sophronia, my dear, said Mr Lammle, 'I don't like the colour of your dress. 'I appeal, said Mrs Lammle, 'to Mr Fledgeby. 'And I, said Mr Lammle, 'to Georgiana. 'Georgy, my love, remarked Mrs Lammle aside to her dear girl, 'I rely upon you not to go over to the opposition. Now, Mr Fledgeby.
'I don't like, Mr Twemlow, said Fledgeby, 'I don't like Riah's calling in the principal. If he's determined to call it in, it must come. 'But supposing, sir, said Twemlow, downcast, 'that it can't come? 'Then, retorted Fledgeby, 'you must go, you know. 'Where? asked Twemlow, faintly. 'To prison, returned Fledgeby.
Incessant machinations were to be kept at work by Mr and Mrs Lammle; love was to be made for Fledgeby, and conquest was to be insured to him; he on his part very humbly admitting his defects as to the softer social arts, and entreating to be backed to the utmost by his two able coadjutors. Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person.
When he turned round again with a composed countenance, his subordinate still stood in the same place, and the dolls' dressmaker sat behind the door with a look of horror. 'Halloa! cried Mr Fledgeby, 'you're forgetting this young lady, Mr Riah, and she has been waiting long enough too.
Fledgeby's childhood had been, in consequence, a stormy one; but the winds and the waves had gone down in the grave, and Fledgeby flourished alone. He lived in chambers in the Albany, did Fledgeby, and maintained a spruce appearance.
It may have been too that in this she did not quite succeed, for it is very difficult to resist confidence, and she knew she had Georgiana's. Nothing more was said between the happy pair. Perhaps conspirators who have once established an understanding, may not be over-fond of repeating the terms and objects of their conspiracy. Next day came; came Georgiana; and came Fledgeby.
I have given a Jew a bill of sale on this furniture, and he could take it to-morrow, to-day, now. He would have taken it before now, I believe, but for Fledgeby. 'What has Fledgeby to do with him? 'Knew him. Cautioned me against him before I got into his claws. Couldn't persuade him then, in behalf of somebody else. 'Do you mean that Fledgeby has at all softened him towards you?
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