Dandy Dick - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
GEORGIANA.
I must say you try to make everybody feel at home.
[_HANNAH curtseys._
SIR TRISTRAM.
It's beautifully Arcadian.
GEORGIANA.
[_To HANNAH._] Perhaps this is only a police-station for the young?
HANNAH.
No, ma'am, we take ladies and gentlemen like yourselves.
NOAH.
[_Who has not been noticed, surveying GEORGIANA and SIR TRISTRAM, gloomily._] 'Annah, hintrodooce me.
GEORGIANA.
[_Facing NOAH._] Good gracious! What's that! Oh, good-morning.
NOAH.
'Annah's a gettin' me a lot o' nice noo friends this week since we coom to St. Marvells.
HANNAH.
Noah, Noah--the lady and gentlemen is strange.
NOAH.
Ho!
GEORGIANA.
Are you the man in charge here?
NOAH.
Ay; are you seeing me on business or pleasure?
SIR TRISTRAM.
Do you imagine people come here to see you?
NOAH.
Noa--they generally coom to see my wife. 'Owever, if it's business [_pointing to the other side of the room_] that's the hofficial side--this is domestic. You'll hall kindly move over.
SIR TRISTRAM _and_ GEORGIANA.
Oh, certainly.
[_Changing their seats._
SIR TRISTRAM.
Now, look here, my man. This lady is Mrs. Tidman. Mrs. Tidman is the sister of Dr. Jedd, the Dean of St. Marvells.
HANNAH.
[_With a gasp._] Oh!
GEORGIANA.
There's something wrong with your wife.
NOAH.
Ay. She's profligate--proceedins are pendin'!
GEORGIANA.
[_To SIR TRISTRAM._] Strange police station! My flesh creeps.
SIR TRISTRAM.
[_To NOAH._] Well, my good man, to come to the point. My poor friend and this lady's brother, Dr. Jedd, the Dean, you know--has mysteriously and unaccountably disappeared.
GEORGIANA.
Vanished.
SIR TRISTRAM.
Gone.
NOAH.
Absconded.
GEORGIANA.
Absconded! How dare you.
