[The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Newcomes CHAPTER IX 15/29
I say! There's a bloody hand on the first carriage. It's a baronet, is it? I 'ope your ladyship's very well; and I 'ope Sir John will soon be down yere to join his family." Mr.Gawler makes sarcastic bows over the card in his bow-window whilst making this speech.
The little Gawlers rush on to the drawing-room verandah themselves to examine the new arrivals. "This is Mrs.Honeyman's ?" asks the gentleman designated by Mr.Gawler as "the foring cove," and hands in a card on which the words, "Miss Honeyman, 110, Steyne Gardens.
J.Goodenough," are written in that celebrated physician's handwriting.
"We want five bet-rooms, six bets, two or dree sitting-rooms.
Have you got dese ?" "Will you speak to my mistress ?" says Hannah.
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