. Dicken's works . cept the vacantplace. But the brown silk umbrella was nowhereto be found; and as the coachman couldnt wait, hedrove back to the Swan, leaving word for Mr. Minnsto run round and catch him. However, as it didnot occur to Mr. Minns for some ten minutes or so,that he had left the brown silk umbrella with theivory handle in the other coach, coming down; and,moreover, as he was by no means remarkable forspeed, it is no matter of surprise that when he ac-complished the feat of running round to theSwan, the coach—the last coach—had gone with-out him. It was somewhere about three ocl
. Dicken's works . cept the vacantplace. But the brown silk umbrella was nowhereto be found; and as the coachman couldnt wait, hedrove back to the Swan, leaving word for Mr. Minnsto run round and catch him. However, as it didnot occur to Mr. Minns for some ten minutes or so,that he had left the brown silk umbrella with theivory handle in the other coach, coming down; and,moreover, as he was by no means remarkable forspeed, it is no matter of surprise that when he ac-complished the feat of running round to theSwan, the coach—the last coach—had gone with-out him. It was somewhere about three oclock in themorning when Mr. Augustus Minns knocked feeblyat the street-door of his lodgings in Tavistock 16 SKETCHES BY BOZ. Street, cold, wet, cross, and miserable. He madehis will next morning, and his professional maninforms us, in that strict confidence in which weinform the public, that neither the name of Budden, nor of Mrs. Amelia Budden, norof Master Alexander Augustus Budden, CHAPTER III. SENTIMENT. The Miss Crumptons, or to quote the authorityof the inscription on the garden-gate of MinervaHouse, Hammersmith, The Misses Crumpton,were two unusually tall, particularly thin, and ex-ceedingly skinny personages; very upright, andvery yellow. Miss Amelia Crumpton owned tothirty-eight, and Miss Maria Crumpton admittedshe was forty ; an admission which was renderedperfectly unnecessary by the self-evident fact of herbeing at least fifty. They dressed in the most in-teresting manner — like twins ; and looked ashappy and comfortable as a couple of marigoldsrun to seed. They were very precise, had thestrictest possible ideas of propriety, wore false hair,and always smelled very strongly of lavender. Minerva House, conducted under the auspices ofthe two sisters, was a finishing establishment foryoung ladies, where some twenty girls of the agesof from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired asmattering of everything, and a knowledge of noth-ing ;
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