The acknowledgment awakened quite a lot of agonizing fears that he had taken no breakfast; which showing after a slight cross-examination to be the real state of the case, breakfast for one was immediately ordered, however Mr. Balim’s repeated protestations that he couldn’t consider it. We had been all in a state of nice mortification and uneasiness, when one of the little boys, running into the room as airily as little boys normally run who have a limiteless allowance of animal food in the holidays, and keep their palms continually compelled all the way down to the bottoms of very deep trouser-pockets after they take train, joyfully introduced that Mr. Balim was at that second developing the road in a hackney-cab; and the intelligence was confirmed beyond all doubt a minute afterwards by the entry of Mr. Balim himself, who was obtained with repeated cries of ‘Where have you been, you naughty creature? I am sure I can-NOT suppose.’ As these final phrases were uttered in that measured, emphatic manner which painfully declares that the speaker has not fairly made up his or her mind what to say, but is set to talk on however, the eldest daughter took up the subject, and hoped no accident had occurred to Mr. Balim, upon which there was a basic chorus of ‘Dear Mr. Balim!
There is a sure sort of impostor-a bragging, vaunting, puffing young gentleman-in opposition to whom we are desirous to warn that fairer part of the creation, to whom we extra peculiarly dedicate these our labours. We’ve got seen a throwing-off young gentleman who, to our certain information, was innocent of a word of music, and scarcely in a position to recognise a tune by ear, volunteer a Spanish air upon the guitar when he had previously glad himself that there was not such an instrument inside a mile of the house. We’ve lived to witness the unmasking of another throwing-off young gentleman, who went out a visiting in a army cap with a gold band and tassel, and who, after passing successfully for a captain and being lauded to the skies for his red whiskers, his bravery, his soldierly bearing and his satisfaction, turned out to be the dishonest son of an trustworthy linen-draper in a small nation city, and whom, if it were not for this fortunate exposure, we should not but despair of encountering as the fortunate husband of some wealthy heiress. Indeed I converse the truth,’ replies the throwing-off younger gentleman, ‘I never noticed any method to them. We have now heard another throwing-off young gentleman, after hanging a be aware or two upon the piano, and accompanying it accurately (by dint of laborious follow) together with his voice, guarantee a circle of wondering listeners that so acute was his ear that he was wholly unable to sing out of tune, let him strive as he would.
For those who try and avoid them you’ll fail and you’ll additional really feel like a failure because you tried to keep away from them and failed to keep away from them. With this, the poetical younger gentleman laughs a snigger belonging solely to poets and Mr. O. Smith of the Adelphi Theatre, and sits down, pen in hand, to throw off a web page or two of verse within the biting, semi-atheistical demoniac model, which, like the poetical young gentleman himself, is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. We were to make for Chigwell in four glass coaches, every with a trifling company of six or eight inside, and somewhat boy belonging to the projectors on the field-and to start out from the residence of the projectors, Woburn-place, Russell-square, at half-past ten exactly. It was quite delightful to see how he ate and drank, whereas one pair of truthful fingers poured out his espresso, and one other put within the sugar, and one other the milk; the rest of the company ever and anon casting indignant glances at their watches, and the glass coaches,-and the little boys trying on in an agony of apprehension lest it should start to rain earlier than we set out; it may need rained all day, after we were once too far to turn again once more, and welcome, for aught they cared.
We arrived on the place of rendezvous at the appointed time, and located the glass coaches and the little boys fairly ready, and divers young ladies and young gentlemen wanting anxiously over the breakfast-parlour blinds, who appeared not at all so much gratified by our strategy as we may need anticipated, however evidently wished we had been anyone else. Some younger ladies consider him ‘a pleasant younger man,’ others ‘a nice young man,’ others ‘fairly a lady’s man,’ others ‘a handsome man,’ others ‘a remarkably good-trying young man.’ With some younger ladies he is ‘a perfect angel,’ and with others ‘fairly a love.’ He’s likewise a charming creature, a duck, and a pricey. Thus in all disputed questions, when the throwing-off young gentleman has no argument to deliver forward, he invariably occurs to be acquainted with some distant person, intimately related with the subject, whose testimony decides the purpose against you, to the good-may we say it-to the good admiration of three younger ladies out of each 4, who consider the throwing-off younger gentleman a really extremely-connected young man, and a most charming individual. If his head and face be massive, his nostril outstanding, and his figure sq., he is an uncommonly high quality younger man, and worshipped accordingly.