about noon
Here be a weddin ' party -- broide and broide 's - maid , and the groom -- if a mun dea n't ` joy himsel noo , when ought he , hey ? Drat it all , thot 's what I want to know . ' So , in order that he might begin to enjoy himself at once , and lose no time , Mr. Browdie gave his wife a hearty kiss , and succeeded in wresting another from Miss Squeers , after a maidenly resistance of scratching and struggling on the part of that young lady , which was not quite over when they reached the Saracen 's Head . Here , the party straightway retired to rest ; the refreshment of sleep being necessary after so long a journey ; and here they met again about noon , to a substantial breakfast , spread by direction of Mr. John Browdie , in a small private room upstairs commanding an uninterrupted view of the stables . To have seen Miss Squeers now , divested of the brown beaver , the green veil , and the blue curl-papers , and arrayed in all the virgin splendour of a white frock and spencer , with a white muslin bonnet , and an imitative damask rose in full bloom on the inside thereof -- her luxuriant crop of hair arranged in curls so tight that it was impossible they could come out by any accident , and her bonnet-cap trimmed with little damask roses , which might be supposed to be so many promising scions of the big rose -- to have seen all this , and to have seen the broad damask belt , matching both the family rose and the little roses , which encircled her slender waist , and by a happy ingenuity took off from the shortness of the spencer behind , -- to have beheld all this , and to have taken further into account the coral bracelets -LRB- rather short of beads , and with a very visible black string -RRB- which clasped her wrists , and the coral necklace which rested on her neck , supporting , outside her frock , a lonely cornelian heart , typical of her own disengaged affections -- to have contemplated all these mute but expressive appeals to the purest feelings of our nature , might have thawed the frost of age , and added new and inextinguishable fuel to the fire of youth . The waiter was touched . Waiter as he was , he had human passions and feelings , and he looked very hard at Miss Squeers as he handed the muffins .