Oh , it 's all right , it 's quite correct ! Mrs. Edward Plummer , I infer ? '' `` That 's the name , '' returned the bridegroom . `` Ah ! I should n't have known you , sir , '' said Tackleton , scrutinising his face narrowly , and making a low bow . `` I give you joy , sir ! '' `` Thankee . '' `` Mrs. Peerybingle , '' said Tackleton , turning suddenly to where she stood with her husband ; `` I 'm sorry . You have n't done me a very great kindness , but , upon my life , I am sorry . You are better than I thought you . John Peerybingle , I am sorry . You understand me ; that 's enough . It 's quite correct , ladies and gentlemen all , and perfectly satisfactory . Good morning ! '' With these words he carried it off , and carried himself off too : merely stopping at the door to take the flowers and favours from his horse 's head , and to kick that animal once in the ribs , as a means of informing him that there was a screw loose in his arrangements . Of course , it became a serious duty now to make such a day of it as should mark these events for a high Feast and Festival in the Peerybingle Calendar for evermore . Accordingly , Dot went to work to produce such an entertainment as should reflect undying honour on the house and on every one concerned ; and , in a very short space of time , she was up to her dimpled elbows in flour , and whitening the Carrier 's coat , every time he came near her , by stopping him to give him a kiss . That good fellow washed the greens , and peeled the turnips , and broke the plates , and upset iron pots full of cold water on the fire , and made himself useful in all sorts of ways : while a couple of professional assistants , hastily called in from somewhere in the neighbourhood , as on a point of life or death , ran against each other in all the doorways and round all the corners , and everybody tumbled over Tilly Slowboy and the Baby , everywhere . Tilly never came out in such force before . Her ubiquity was the theme of general admiration .
She was a stumbling-block in the passage XXXXX five-and-twenty minutes past two ; a man-trap in the kitchen at half-past two precisely ; and a pitfall in the garret at five-and-twenty minutes to three .
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