The Jewels were to accompany them, and they soon made
their re-appearance, quite ready — Lobby carrying a whip
with a frightful whistle at the end, with which he announced
his approach all the way down stairs; and Totty, in a
crimson dress, made so very short — as Mrs. Cooze loved to
see — that her little cold legs appeared to hang out of the
bottom of it like the pistils from a fuchsia.
The entertainment of the walk began by the children
rushing out into the street the instant the door was opened,
by which means they ran under the very neck of a cab-horse,
and were saluted with such dreadful oaths thereupon, by the
driver, that Miss Twinch felt all her blood go the wrong
way, as she expressed it; and the more so, when, being next
to the door, the same uneducated and altogether badly
brought-up man told her if she had children she ought to
look alter them; at the which she well nigh fainted. Lobby
and Totty were then dragged back by the maid; the playful
boy taking the opportunity of splashing her stockings from
the gutter, by putting his foot violently into it, as they
crossed. Then Mrs. Cooze declared they had brought
her heart into her mouth; so that amongst the millions of
that great city, probably no two persons went forth with
their circulation in such a strange state as these luckleM
ladies.
