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CHAPTER XXV. — CHISWICK GARDENS
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The following Thursday was as fine as a Chiswick flower-show-day ought to be, and so very seldom is. The party who had agreed to congregate1 there—the party, that is, whom we are to meet—was very select. Linda and Katie had come up to spend a few days with their sister. Mrs. Val, Clementina, Gertrude, and Linda were to go in a carriage, for which Alaric was destined2 to pay, and which Mrs. Val had hired, having selected it regardless of expense, as one which, by its decent exterior3 and polished outward graces, conferred on its temporary occupiers an agreeable appearance of proprietorship4. The two Miss Neverbends, sisters of Fidus, were also to be with them, and they with Katie followed humbly5, as became their station, in a cab, which was not only hired, but which very vulgarly told the fact to all the world.
Slight as had been the intimacy6 between Fidus Neverbend and Alaric at Tavistock, nevertheless a sort of friendship had since grown up between them. Alaric had ascertained7 that Fidus might in a certain degree be useful to him, that the good word of the Aristides of the Works and Buildings might be serviceable, and that, in short, Neverbend was worth cultivating. Neverbend, on the other hand, when he perceived that Tudor was likely to become a Civil Service hero, a man to be named with glowing eulogy8 at all the Government Boards in London, felt unconsciously a desire to pay him some of that reverence9 which a mortal always feels for a god. And thus there was formed between them a sort of alliance, which included also the ladies of the family.
Not that Mrs. Val, or even Mrs. A. Tudor, encountered Lactimel and Ugolina Neverbend on equal terms. There is a
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