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Mrs Coiler then changed the subject and began to flatter me I liked

it for a few rossly that the

pleasure was soon over She had a serpentine way of co close at

me when she pretended to be vitally interested in the friends and

localities I had left, which was altogether snaky and fork-tongued; and

when she made an occasional bounce upon Startop (who said very little to

her), or upon Dru on

the opposite side of the table

After dinner the children were introduced, and Mrs Coiler s,--a sagacious way of iirls, and two little boys, besides

the baby who ht have been either, and the baby's next successor who

was as yet neither They were brought in by Flopson and Millers, h those two non-co somewhere

for children and had enlisted these, while Mrs Pocket looked at the

young Nobles that ought to have been as if she rather thought she had

had the pleasure of inspecting them before, but didn't quite knohat

to make of them

"Here! Give me your fork, Mum, and take the baby," said Flopson "Don't

take it that way, or you'll get its head under the table"