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    person wished to speak with me on business . Now , I having been aroused from a pleasant doze , into which a duet ., performed by my two accomplished daughters on the grand piano-forte , had lulled me > answered * rather testily , that it was a strange time of day to come about business ; and moreover , learning from my man-servant Thomas that the person was very shabby and quite

    unknown , I desired that he should await , in the kitchen , my leisure ^ Imagine my surprise when I found the shabby stranger to be my senior partner , the rich , young Mr . Peregrine Twist . I introduced him , with many apologies , into the drawing-room , and my wife , as good a little woman as ever breathed , having perceived , ( as she told me afterwards , ) by a sort of instinctive

    knowledge possessed by mammas of marriageable daughters , that he was single , paid him every attention , and , indeed * wished him to reside with us until he made proper arrangements for himself . It will hardly be believed , that the odd young man appeared actually quite alarmed at the delicate attentions of my dearest wife and my two amiable girls . Away he would go , and at that time of the evening had I to accompany him to London .

    Old Mr . Twist was born and passed all his days in an old house , close to the counting-house and warehouses . After the death of the old people , it was my own wish to occupy this house ; but my dear wife and sweet girls protested so much against the measure , both on the score of health and of gentility , that I gave up my plan , and we removed to a country-house , situated , as the courteous reader knows , on the left-hand side of the road

    to Greenwich . The city house was left to the care of an old Welsh woman , who had been nurse to Master Peregrine Twist . This respectable old lady , when she answered our knock and ring , and perceived her nursling standing before her , set up such a howl of delight that she awoke all the watchmen in the neighbourhood .

    Mr . Peregrine Twist left all the affairs of the concern entirely to my care , which I think showed both his prudence and good taste ; but > otherwise , I did not so much approve of his conduct . He would never , notwithstanding my most pressing invitations , go to Vesuvius Villa ; and , indeed , once when my dear ,

    goodnatured wife , being shopping in London , just called at the door , the impertinent old Welsh woman , before a word could be said , shut it again in her face . One reason ior his many strange actions was , I think , grief for the loss of his parents and regret that he had not been with them in their last moments .

    Christmas-day had ever been with old Mr . and Mrs . Twist a day highl y revered , and solemnly kept , with good eating and drinking . On this day did Peregrine always have just such a dinner set out as he \ ised to partake with his dear father and mother . Everything was arranged the same > as near as he and Gwenllian could

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 846, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/28/