[The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Pendennis CHAPTER III 22/26
Me and Spavin have the drag between us.
And I thought I'd just tool over and go to the play.
Did you ever see Rowkins do the hornpipe ?" and Mr. Foker began to perform some steps of that popular dance in the inn yard, looking round for the sympathy of his groom and the stable-men. Pen thought he would like to go to the play too: and could ride home afterwards, as there was a moonlight.
So he accepted Foker's invitation to dinner, and the young men entered the inn together, where Mr.Foker stopped at the bar, and called upon Miss Rincer, the landlady's fair daughter, who presided there, to give him a glass of 'his mixture.' Pen and his family had been known at the George ever since they came into the country; and Mr.Pendennis's carriages and horses always put up there when he paid a visit to the county town.
The landlady dropped the heir of Fairoaks a very respectful curtsey, and complimented him upon his growth and manly appearance, and asked news of the family at Fairoaks, and of Doctor Portman and the Clavering people, to all of which questions the young gentleman answered with much affability.
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