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+GOING INTO SOCIETY
+
+
+
+
+At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of
+a Showman.  He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish
+books of the time when he rented the House, and there was therefore
+no need of any clue to his name.  But, he himself was less easy to
+be found; for, he had led a wandering life, and settled people had
+lost sight of him, and people who plumed themselves on being
+respectable were shy of admitting that they had ever known anything
+of him.  At last, among the marsh lands near the river's level, that
+lie about Deptford and the neighbouring market-gardens, a Grizzled
+Personage in velveteen, with a face so cut up by varieties of
+weather that he looked as if he had been tattooed, was found smoking
+a pipe at the door of a wooden house on wheels.  The wooden house
+was laid up in ordinary for the winter, near the mouth of a muddy
+creek; and everything near it, the foggy river, the misty marshes,
+and the steaming market-gardens, smoked in company with the grizzled
+man.  In the midst of this smoking party, the funnel-chimney of the
+wooden house on wheels was not remiss, but took its pipe with the
+rest in a companionable manner.
+
+On being asked if it were he who had once rented the House to Let,
+Grizzled Velveteen looked surprised, and said yes.  Then his name
+was Magsman?  That was it, Toby Magsman--which lawfully christened
+Robert; but called in the line, from a infant, Toby.  There was
+nothing agin Toby Magsman, he believed?  If there was suspicion of
+such--mention it!
+
+There was no suspicion of such, he might rest assured.  But, some
+inquiries were making about that House, and would he object to say
+why he left it?
+
+Not at all; why should he?  He left it, along of a Dwarf.
+
+Along of a Dwarf?
+
+Mr. Magsman repeated, deliberately and emphatically, Along of a
+Dwarf.
+
+Might it be compatible with Mr. Magsman's inclination and
+convenience to enter, as a favour, into a few particulars?
+
+Mr. Magsman entered into the following particulars.
+
+It was a long time ago, to begin with;--afore lotteries and a deal
+more was done away with.  Mr. Magsman was looking about for a good
+pitch, and he see that house, and he says to himself, "I'll have
+you, if you're to be had.  If money'll get you, I'll have you."
+
+The neighbours cut up rough, and made complaints; but Mr. Magsman
+don't know what they WOULD have had.  It was a lovely thing.  First
+of all, there was the canvass, representin the picter of the Giant,
+in Spanish trunks and a ruff, who was himself half the heighth of
+the house, and was run up with a line and pulley to a pole on the
+roof, so that his Ed was coeval with the parapet.  Then, there was
+the canvass, representin the picter of the Albina lady, showing her
+white air to the Army and Navy in correct uniform.  Then, there was
+the canvass, representin the picter of the Wild Indian a scalpin a
+member of some foreign nation.  Then, there was the canvass,
+representin the picter of a child of a British Planter, seized by
+two Boa Constrictors--not that WE never had no child, nor no
+Constrictors neither.  Similarly, there was the canvass, representin
+the picter of the Wild Ass of the Prairies--not that WE never had no
+wild asses, nor wouldn't have had 'em at a gift.  Last, there was
+the canvass, representin the picter of the Dwarf, and like him too
+(considerin), with George the Fourth in such a state of astonishment
+at him as His Majesty couldn't with his utmost politeness and
+stoutness express.  The front of the House was so covered with
+canvasses, that there wasn't a spark of daylight ever visible on
+that side.  "MAGSMAN'S AMUSEMENTS," fifteen foot long by two foot
+high, ran over the front door and parlour winders.  The passage was
+a Arbour of green baize and gardenstuff.  A barrel-organ performed
+there unceasing.  And as to respectability,--if threepence ain't
+respectable, what is?
+
+But, the Dwarf is the principal article at present, and he was worth
+the money.  He was wrote up as MAJOR TPSCHOFFKI, OF THE IMPERIAL
+BULGRADERIAN BRIGADE.  Nobody couldn't pronounce the name, and it
+never was intended anybody should.  The public always turned it, as
+a regular rule, into Chopski.  In the line he was called Chops;
+partly on that account, and partly because his real name, if he ever
+had any real name (which was very dubious), was Stakes.
+
+He was a un-common small man, he really was.  Certainly not so small
+as he was made out to be, but where IS your Dwarf as is?  He was a
+most uncommon small man, with a most uncommon large Ed; and what he
+had inside that Ed, nobody ever knowed but himself:  even supposin
+himself to have ever took stock of it, which it would have been a
+stiff job for even him to do.
+
+The kindest little man as never growed!  Spirited, but not proud.
+When he travelled with the Spotted Baby--though he knowed himself to
+be a nat'ral Dwarf, and knowed the Baby's spots to be put upon him
+artificial, he nursed that Baby like a mother.  You never heerd him
+give a ill-name to a Giant.  He DID allow himself to break out into
+strong language respectin the Fat Lady from Norfolk; but that was an
+affair of the 'art; and when a man's 'art has been trifled with by a
+lady, and the preference giv to a Indian, he ain't master of his
+actions.
+
+He was always in love, of course; every human nat'ral phenomenon is.
+And he was always in love with a large woman; I never knowed the
+Dwarf as could be got to love a small one.  Which helps to keep 'em
+the Curiosities they are.
+
+One sing'ler idea he had in that Ed of his, which must have meant
+something, or it wouldn't have been there.  It was always his
+opinion that he was entitled to property.  He never would put his
+name to anything.  He had been taught to write, by the young man
+without arms, who got his living with his toes (quite a writing
+master HE was, and taught scores in the line), but Chops would have
+starved to death, afore he'd have gained a bit of bread by putting
+his hand to a paper.  This is the more curious to bear in mind,
+because HE had no property, nor hope of property, except his house
+and a sarser.  When I say his house, I mean the box, painted and got
+up outside like a reg'lar six-roomer, that he used to creep into,
+with a diamond ring (or quite as good to look at) on his forefinger,
+and ring a little bell out of what the Public believed to be the
+Drawing-room winder.  And when I say a sarser, I mean a Chaney
+sarser in which he made a collection for himself at the end of every
+Entertainment.  His cue for that, he took from me:  "Ladies and
+gentlemen, the little man will now walk three times round the
+Cairawan, and retire behind the curtain."  When he said anything
+important, in private life, he mostly wound it up with this form of
+words, and they was generally the last thing he said to me at night
+afore he went to bed.
+
+He had what I consider a fine mind--a poetic mind.  His ideas
+respectin his property never come upon him so strong as when he sat
+upon a barrel-organ and had the handle turned.  Arter the wibration
+had run through him a little time, he would screech out, "Toby, I
+feel my property coming--grind away!  I'm counting my guineas by
+thousands, Toby--grind away!  Toby, I shall be a man of fortun!  I
+feel the Mint a jingling in me, Toby, and I'm swelling out into the
+Bank of England!"  Such is the influence of music on a poetic mind.
+Not that he was partial to any other music but a barrel-organ; on
+the contrary, hated it.
+
+He had a kind of a everlasting grudge agin the Public:  which is a
+thing you may notice in many phenomenons that get their living out
+of it.  What riled him most in the nater of his occupation was, that
+it kep him out of Society.  He was continiwally saying, "Toby, my
+ambition is, to go into Society.  The curse of my position towards
+the Public is, that it keeps me hout of Society.  This don't signify
+to a low beast of a Indian; he an't formed for Society.  This don't
+signify to a Spotted Baby; HE an't formed for Society.--I am."
+
+Nobody never could make out what Chops done with his money.  He had
+a good salary, down on the drum every Saturday as the day came
+round, besides having the run of his teeth--and he was a Woodpecker
+to eat--but all Dwarfs are.  The sarser was a little income,
+bringing him in so many halfpence that he'd carry 'em for a week
+together, tied up in a pocket-handkercher.  And yet he never had
+money.  And it couldn't be the Fat Lady from Norfolk, as was once
+supposed; because it stands to reason that when you have a animosity
+towards a Indian, which makes you grind your teeth at him to his
+face, and which can hardly hold you from Goosing him audible when
+he's going through his War-Dance--it stands to reason you wouldn't
+under them circumstances deprive yourself, to support that Indian in
+the lap of luxury.
+
+Most unexpected, the mystery come out one day at Egham Races.  The
+Public was shy of bein pulled in, and Chops was ringin his little
+bell out of his drawing-room winder, and was snarlin to me over his
+shoulder as he kneeled down with his legs out at the back-door--for
+he couldn't be shoved into his house without kneeling down, and the
+premises wouldn't accommodate his legs--was snarlin, "Here's a
+precious Public for you; why the Devil don't they tumble up?" when a
+man in the crowd holds up a carrier-pigeon, and cries out, "If
+there's any person here as has got a ticket, the Lottery's just
+drawed, and the number as has come up for the great prize is three,
+seven, forty-two!  Three, seven, forty-two!"  I was givin the man to
+the Furies myself, for calling off the Public's attention--for the
+Public will turn away, at any time, to look at anything in
+preference to the thing showed 'em; and if you doubt it, get 'em
+together for any indiwidual purpose on the face of the earth, and
+send only two people in late, and see if the whole company an't far
+more interested in takin particular notice of them two than of you--
+I say, I wasn't best pleased with the man for callin out, and wasn't
+blessin him in my own mind, when I see Chops's little bell fly out
+of winder at a old lady, and he gets up and kicks his box over,
+exposin the whole secret, and he catches hold of the calves of my
+legs and he says to me, "Carry me into the wan, Toby, and throw a
+pail of water over me or I'm a dead man, for I've come into my
+property!"
+
+Twelve thousand odd hundred pound, was Chops's winnins.  He had
+bought a half-ticket for the twenty-five thousand prize, and it had
+come up.  The first use he made of his property, was, to offer to
+fight the Wild Indian for five hundred pound a side, him with a
+poisoned darnin-needle and the Indian with a club; but the Indian
+being in want of backers to that amount, it went no further.
+
+Arter he had been mad for a week--in a state of mind, in short, in
+which, if I had let him sit on the organ for only two minutes, I
+believe he would have bust--but we kep the organ from him--Mr. Chops
+come round, and behaved liberal and beautiful to all.  He then sent
+for a young man he knowed, as had a wery genteel appearance and was
+a Bonnet at a gaming-booth (most respectable brought up, father
+havin been imminent in the livery stable line but unfort'nate in a
+commercial crisis, through paintin a old gray, ginger-bay, and
+sellin him with a Pedigree), and Mr. Chops said to this Bonnet, who
+said his name was Normandy, which it wasn't:
+
+"Normandy, I'm a goin into Society.  Will you go with me?"
+
+Says Normandy:  "Do I understand you, Mr. Chops, to hintimate that
+the 'ole of the expenses of that move will be borne by yourself?"
+
+"Correct," says Mr. Chops.  "And you shall have a Princely allowance
+too."
+
+The Bonnet lifted Mr. Chops upon a chair, to shake hands with him,
+and replied in poetry, with his eyes seemingly full of tears:
+
+
+"My boat is on the shore,
+And my bark is on the sea,
+And I do not ask for more,
+But I'll Go:- along with thee."
+
+
+They went into Society, in a chay and four grays with silk jackets.
+They took lodgings in Pall Mall, London, and they blazed away.
+
+In consequence of a note that was brought to Bartlemy Fair in the
+autumn of next year by a servant, most wonderful got up in milk-
+white cords and tops, I cleaned myself and went to Pall Mall, one
+evening appinted.  The gentlemen was at their wine arter dinner, and
+Mr. Chops's eyes was more fixed in that Ed of his than I thought
+good for him.  There was three of 'em (in company, I mean), and I
+knowed the third well.  When last met, he had on a white Roman
+shirt, and a bishop's mitre covered with leopard-skin, and played
+the clarionet all wrong, in a band at a Wild Beast Show.
+
+This gent took on not to know me, and Mr. Chops said:  "Gentlemen,
+this is a old friend of former days:" and Normandy looked at me
+through a eye-glass, and said, "Magsman, glad to see you!"--which
+I'll take my oath he wasn't.  Mr. Chops, to git him convenient to
+the table, had his chair on a throne (much of the form of George the
+Fourth's in the canvass), but he hardly appeared to me to be King
+there in any other pint of view, for his two gentlemen ordered about
+like Emperors.  They was all dressed like May-Day--gorgeous!--And as
+to Wine, they swam in all sorts.
+
+I made the round of the bottles, first separate (to say I had done
+it), and then mixed 'em all together (to say I had done it), and
+then tried two of 'em as half-and-half, and then t'other two.
+Altogether, I passed a pleasin evenin, but with a tendency to feel
+muddled, until I considered it good manners to get up and say, "Mr.
+Chops, the best of friends must part, I thank you for the wariety of
+foreign drains you have stood so 'ansome, I looks towards you in red
+wine, and I takes my leave."  Mr. Chops replied, "If you'll just
+hitch me out of this over your right arm, Magsman, and carry me
+down-stairs, I'll see you out."  I said I couldn't think of such a
+thing, but he would have it, so I lifted him off his throne.  He
+smelt strong of Maideary, and I couldn't help thinking as I carried
+him down that it was like carrying a large bottle full of wine, with
+a rayther ugly stopper, a good deal out of proportion.
+
+When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kep me close to him
+by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers:
+
+"I ain't 'appy, Magsman."
+
+"What's on your mind, Mr. Chops?"
+
+"They don't use me well.  They an't grateful to me.  They puts me on
+the mantel-piece when I won't have in more Champagne-wine, and they
+locks me in the sideboard when I won't give up my property."
+
+"Get rid of 'em, Mr. Chops."
+
+"I can't.  We're in Society together, and what would Society say?"
+
+"Come out of Society!" says I.
+
+"I can't.  You don't know what you're talking about.  When you have
+once gone into Society, you mustn't come out of it."
+
+"Then if you'll excuse the freedom, Mr. Chops," were my remark,
+shaking my head grave, "I think it's a pity you ever went in."
+
+Mr. Chops shook that deep Ed of his, to a surprisin extent, and
+slapped it half a dozen times with his hand, and with more Wice than
+I thought were in him.  Then, he says, "You're a good fellow, but
+you don't understand.  Good-night, go along.  Magsman, the little
+man will now walk three times round the Cairawan, and retire behind
+the curtain."  The last I see of him on that occasion was his tryin,
+on the extremest werge of insensibility, to climb up the stairs, one
+by one, with his hands and knees.  They'd have been much too steep
+for him, if he had been sober; but he wouldn't be helped.
+
+It warn't long after that, that I read in the newspaper of Mr.
+Chops's being presented at court.  It was printed, "It will be
+recollected"--and I've noticed in my life, that it is sure to be
+printed that it WILL be recollected, whenever it won't--"that Mr.
+Chops is the individual of small stature, whose brilliant success in
+the last State Lottery attracted so much attention."  Well, I says
+to myself, Such is Life!  He has been and done it in earnest at
+last.  He has astonished George the Fourth!
+
+(On account of which, I had that canvass new-painted, him with a bag
+of money in his hand, a presentin it to George the Fourth, and a
+lady in Ostrich Feathers fallin in love with him in a bag-wig,
+sword, and buckles correct.)
+
+I took the House as is the subject of present inquiries--though not
+the honour of bein acquainted--and I run Magsman's Amusements in it
+thirteen months--sometimes one thing, sometimes another, sometimes
+nothin particular, but always all the canvasses outside.  One night,
+when we had played the last company out, which was a shy company,
+through its raining Heavens hard, I was takin a pipe in the one pair
+back along with the young man with the toes, which I had taken on
+for a month (though he never drawed--except on paper), and I heard a
+kickin at the street door.  "Halloa!" I says to the young man,
+"what's up!"  He rubs his eyebrows with his toes, and he says, "I
+can't imagine, Mr. Magsman"--which he never could imagine nothin,
+and was monotonous company.
+
+The noise not leavin off, I laid down my pipe, and I took up a
+candle, and I went down and opened the door.  I looked out into the
+street; but nothin could I see, and nothin was I aware of, until I
+turned round quick, because some creetur run between my legs into
+the passage.  There was Mr. Chops!
+
+"Magsman," he says, "take me, on the old terms, and you've got me;
+if it's done, say done!"
+
+I was all of a maze, but I said, "Done, sir."
+
+"Done to your done, and double done!" says he.  "Have you got a bit
+of supper in the house?"
+
+Bearin in mind them sparklin warieties of foreign drains as we'd
+guzzled away at in Pall Mall, I was ashamed to offer him cold
+sassages and gin-and-water; but he took 'em both and took 'em free;
+havin a chair for his table, and sittin down at it on a stool, like
+hold times.  I, all of a maze all the while.
+
+It was arter he had made a clean sweep of the sassages (beef, and to
+the best of my calculations two pound and a quarter), that the
+wisdom as was in that little man began to come out of him like
+prespiration.
+
+"Magsman," he says, "look upon me!  You see afore you, One as has
+both gone into Society and come out."
+
+"O!  You ARE out of it, Mr. Chops?  How did you get out, sir?"
+
+"SOLD OUT!" says he.  You never saw the like of the wisdom as his Ed
+expressed, when he made use of them two words.
+
+"My friend Magsman, I'll impart to you a discovery I've made.  It's
+wallable; it's cost twelve thousand five hundred pound; it may do
+you good in life--The secret of this matter is, that it ain't so
+much that a person goes into Society, as that Society goes into a
+person."
+
+Not exactly keepin up with his meanin, I shook my head, put on a
+deep look, and said, "You're right there, Mr. Chops."
+
+"Magsman," he says, twitchin me by the leg, "Society has gone into
+me, to the tune of every penny of my property."
+
+I felt that I went pale, and though nat'rally a bold speaker, I
+couldn't hardly say, "Where's Normandy?"
+
+"Bolted.  With the plate," said Mr. Chops.
+
+"And t'other one?" meaning him as formerly wore the bishop's mitre.
+
+"Bolted.  With the jewels," said Mr. Chops.
+
+I sat down and looked at him, and he stood up and looked at me.
+
+"Magsman," he says, and he seemed to myself to get wiser as he got
+hoarser; "Society, taken in the lump, is all dwarfs.  At the court
+of St. James's, they was all a doing my old business--all a goin
+three times round the Cairawan, in the hold court-suits and
+properties.  Elsewheres, they was most of 'em ringin their little
+bells out of make-believes.  Everywheres, the sarser was a goin
+round.  Magsman, the sarser is the uniwersal Institution!"
+
+I perceived, you understand, that he was soured by his misfortunes,
+and I felt for Mr. Chops.
+
+"As to Fat Ladies," he says, giving his head a tremendious one agin
+the wall, "there's lots of THEM in Society, and worse than the
+original.  HERS was a outrage upon Taste--simply a outrage upon
+Taste--awakenin contempt--carryin its own punishment in the form of
+a Indian."  Here he giv himself another tremendious one.  "But
+THEIRS, Magsman, THEIRS is mercenary outrages.  Lay in Cashmeer
+shawls, buy bracelets, strew 'em and a lot of 'andsome fans and
+things about your rooms, let it be known that you give away like
+water to all as come to admire, and the Fat Ladies that don't
+exhibit for so much down upon the drum, will come from all the pints
+of the compass to flock about you, whatever you are.  They'll drill
+holes in your 'art, Magsman, like a Cullender.  And when you've no
+more left to give, they'll laugh at you to your face, and leave you
+to have your bones picked dry by Wulturs, like the dead Wild Ass of
+the Prairies that you deserve to be!"  Here he giv himself the most
+tremendious one of all, and dropped.
+
+I thought he was gone.  His Ed was so heavy, and he knocked it so
+hard, and he fell so stoney, and the sassagerial disturbance in him
+must have been so immense, that I thought he was gone.  But, he soon
+come round with care, and he sat up on the floor, and he said to me,
+with wisdom comin out of his eyes, if ever it come:
+
+"Magsman!  The most material difference between the two states of
+existence through which your unhappy friend has passed;" he reached
+out his poor little hand, and his tears dropped down on the
+moustachio which it was a credit to him to have done his best to
+grow, but it is not in mortals to command success,--"the difference
+this.  When I was out of Society, I was paid light for being seen.
+When I went into Society, I paid heavy for being seen.  I prefer the
+former, even if I wasn't forced upon it.  Give me out through the
+trumpet, in the hold way, to-morrow."
+
+Arter that, he slid into the line again as easy as if he had been
+iled all over.  But the organ was kep from him, and no allusions was
+ever made, when a company was in, to his property.  He got wiser
+every day; his views of Society and the Public was luminous,
+bewilderin, awful; and his Ed got bigger and bigger as his Wisdom
+expanded it.
+
+He took well, and pulled 'em in most excellent for nine weeks.  At
+the expiration of that period, when his Ed was a sight, he expressed
+one evenin, the last Company havin been turned out, and the door
+shut, a wish to have a little music.
+
+"Mr. Chops," I said (I never dropped the "Mr." with him; the world
+might do it, but not me); "Mr. Chops, are you sure as you are in a
+state of mind and body to sit upon the organ?"
+
+His answer was this:  "Toby, when next met with on the tramp, I
+forgive her and the Indian.  And I am."
+
+It was with fear and trembling that I began to turn the handle; but
+he sat like a lamb.  I will be my belief to my dying day, that I see
+his Ed expand as he sat; you may therefore judge how great his
+thoughts was.  He sat out all the changes, and then he come off.
+
+"Toby," he says, with a quiet smile, "the little man will now walk
+three times round the Cairawan, and retire behind the curtain."
+
+When we called him in the morning, we found him gone into a much
+better Society than mine or Pall Mall's.  I giv Mr. Chops as
+comfortable a funeral as lay in my power, followed myself as Chief,
+and had the George the Fourth canvass carried first, in the form of
+a banner.  But, the House was so dismal arterwards, that I giv it
+up, and took to the Wan again.
+
+
+"I don't triumph," said Jarber, folding up the second manuscript,
+and looking hard at Trottle.  "I don't triumph over this worthy
+creature.  I merely ask him if he is satisfied now?"
+
+"How can he be anything else?" I said, answering for Trottle, who
+sat obstinately silent.  "This time, Jarber, you have not only read
+us a delightfully amusing story, but you have also answered the
+question about the House.  Of course it stands empty now.  Who would
+think of taking it after it had been turned into a caravan?"  I
+looked at Trottle, as I said those last words, and Jarber waved his
+hand indulgently in the same direction.
+
+"Let this excellent person speak," said Jarber.  "You were about to
+say, my good man?" -
+
+"I only wished to ask, sir," said Trottle doggedly, "if you could
+kindly oblige me with a date or two in connection with that last
+story?"
+
+"A date!" repeated Jarber.  "What does the man want with dates!"
+
+"I should be glad to know, with great respect," persisted Trottle,
+"if the person named Magsman was the last tenant who lived in the
+House.  It's my opinion--if I may be excused for giving it--that he
+most decidedly was not."
+
+With those words, Trottle made a low bow, and quietly left the room.
+
+There is no denying that Jarber, when we were left together, looked
+sadly discomposed.  He had evidently forgotten to inquire about
+dates; and, in spite of his magnificent talk about his series of
+discoveries, it was quite as plain that the two stories he had just
+read, had really and truly exhausted his present stock.  I thought
+myself bound, in common gratitude, to help him out of his
+embarrassment by a timely suggestion.  So I proposed that he should
+come to tea again, on the next Monday evening, the thirteenth, and
+should make such inquiries in the meantime, as might enable him to
+dispose triumphantly of Trottle's objection.
+
+He gallantly kissed my hand, made a neat little speech of
+acknowledgment, and took his leave.  For the rest of the week I
+would not encourage Trottle by allowing him to refer to the House at
+all.  I suspected he was making his own inquiries about dates, but I
+put no questions to him.
+
+On Monday evening, the thirteenth, that dear unfortunate Jarber
+came, punctual to the appointed time.  He looked so terribly
+harassed, that he was really quite a spectacle of feebleness and
+fatigue.  I saw, at a glance, that the question of dates had gone
+against him, that Mr. Magsman had not been the last tenant of the
+House, and that the reason of its emptiness was still to seek.
+
+"What I have gone through," said Jarber, "words are not eloquent
+enough to tell.  O Sophonisba, I have begun another series of
+discoveries!  Accept the last two as stories laid on your shrine;
+and wait to blame me for leaving your curiosity unappeased, until
+you have heard Number Three."
+
+Number Three looked like a very short manuscript, and I said as
+much.  Jarber explained to me that we were to have some poetry this
+time.  In the course of his investigations he had stepped into the
+Circulating Library, to seek for information on the one important
+subject.  All the Library-people knew about the House was, that a
+female relative of the last tenant, as they believed, had, just
+after that tenant left, sent a little manuscript poem to them which
+she described as referring to events that had actually passed in the
+House; and which she wanted the proprietor of the Library to
+publish.  She had written no address on her letter; and the
+proprietor had kept the manuscript ready to be given back to her
+(the publishing of poems not being in his line) when she might call
+for it.  She had never called for it; and the poem had been lent to
+Jarber, at his express request, to read to me.
+
+Before he began, I rang the bell for Trottle; being determined to
+have him present at the new reading, as a wholesome check on his
+obstinacy.  To my surprise Peggy answered the bell, and told me,
+that Trottle had stepped out without saying where.  I instantly felt
+the strongest possible conviction that he was at his old tricks:
+and that his stepping out in the evening, without leave, meant--
+Philandering.
+
+Controlling myself on my visitor's account, I dismissed Peggy,
+stifled my indignation, and prepared, as politely as might be, to
+listen to Jarber.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg Etext of Going into Society by Charles Dickens
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