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ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD 381
Chesham. These fellows will never be serious. (He resumes
his writing.)
Hely (iterum, but very low). Oh, Charlotte, Char __________
Mr. Lowndes. Hely is raving about that girl—that girl with
the horrible old mother in yellow, don't you remember? and old
father—good old military party, in a shabby old coat—who was at
the last ball. What was the name ? O'Rourke, what is the rhyme
for Baynes ?
The O'R. Pays, and be hanged to you. You're always makin'
fun on me, you little cockney !
Mr. Motcomb. Hely was just as bad about the Danish girl.
You know, Walse, you composed ever so many verses to her, and
wrote home to your mother to ask leave to marry her !
The O'R. I'd think him big enough to marry without anybody's
leave—only they wouldn't have him because he's so ugly.
Mr. Hely. Very good, O'Rourke. Very neat and good. You
were diverting the company with an anecdote. Will you
proceed 1
The O'R. Well, then, the Cérisette had been dancing both on
and off the stage till she was dead tired, I suppose, and so she fell
dead asleep, and Figaroff, taking the what-d'ye-call-'em out of the
Charlotte Roose, smayred her face all _________
Voice without. Deet Mosho RINGWOOD TWYSDEN, sivoplay,
poor l'honorable Moshoo Lownds i
Servant. Monsieur TWYSDEN !
Mr. Twysden. Mr. Lowndes, how are you ?
Mr. Lowndes. Very well, thank you ; how are you ?
Mr. Hely. Lowndes is uncommonly brilliant to-day.
Mr. Twysden. Not the worse for last night ? Some of us were
a little elevated, I think !
Mr. Lowndes. Some of us quite the reverse. (Little cad, what
does he want ? Elevated ! he couldn't keep his little legs !)
Mr. Twysden. Eh! Smoking, I see. Thank you. I very
seldom do—but as you are so kind—puff. Eh—uncommonly
handsome person that, eh—Madame Cérisette.
The O'R. Thank ye for telling us.
Mr. Lowndes. If she meets with your applause, Mr. Twysden,
I should think Mademoiselle Cérisette is all right.
The O'R. Maybe they'd raise her salary if ye told her.
Mr. Twysden. Heh—I see you're chaffing me. We have a
good deal of that kind of thing in Somerset—in our—in—hem!
This tobacco is a little strong. I am a little shaky this morning.
Who, by the way, is that Prince Boutzoff who played lansquenet
with us? Is he one of the Livonian Boutzoffs, or one of the