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560 astonishment. If anybody had winked at her as Henrietta Petowker, it would have been indecorous in the last degree; but as Mrs Lillyvick! While he thought of it in a cold perspiration, and wondered whether it was possible that he could be dreaming, Mr Snevellicci repeated the wink, and drinking to Mrs Lillyvick in dumb show, actually blew her a kiss! Mr Lillyvick left his chair, walked straight up to the other end of the table, and fell upon him--literally fell upon him--instantaneously. Mr Lillyvick was no light weight, and consequently when he fell upon Mr Snevellicci, Mr Snevellicci fell under the table. Mr Lillyvick followed him, and the ladies screamed. ‘What is the matter with the men! Are they mad?’ cried Nicholas, diving under the table, dragging up the collector by main force, and thrusting him, all doubled up, into a chair, as if he had been a stuffed figure. ‘What do you mean to do? What do you want to do? What is the matter with you?’ While Nicholas raised up the collector, Smike had performed the same office for Mr Snevellicci, who now regarded his late adversary in tipsy amazement. ‘Look here, sir,’ replied Mr Lillyvick, pointing to his astonished wife, ‘here is purity and elegance combined, whose feelings have been outraged--violated, sir!’ ‘Lor, what nonsense he talks!’ exclaimed Mrs Lillyvick in answer to the inquiring look of Nicholas. ‘Nobody has said anything to me.’ ‘Said, Henrietta!’ cried the collector. ‘Didn’t I see him--’ Mr Lillyvick couldn’t bring himself to utter the word, but he counterfeited the motion of the eye. ‘Well!’ cried Mrs Lillyvick. ‘Do you suppose nobody is ever to |
