-LRB- She was very emphatic here . -RRB- With regard to the family into which he was so soon about , after some solicitation , to be admitted , she believed Mr. Tackleton knew that , although reduced in purse , it had some pretensions to gentility ; and that if certain circumstances , not wholly unconnected , she would go so far as to say , with the Indigo Trade , but to which she would not more particularly refer , had happened differently , it might perhaps have been in possession of wealth . She then remarked that she would not allude to the past , and would not mention that her daughter had for some time rejected the suit of Mr. Tackleton ; and that she would not say a great many other things which she did say at great length . Finally , she delivered it as the general result of her observation and experience , that those marriages in which there was least of what was romantically and sillily called love , were always the happiest ; and that she anticipated the greatest possible amount of bliss -- not rapturous bliss ; but the solid , steady-going article -- from the approaching nuptials . She concluded by informing the company that to-morrow was the day she had lived for expressly ; and that , when it was over , she would desire nothing better than to be packed up and disposed of in any genteel place of burial . As these remarks were quite unanswerable -- which is the happy property of all remarks that are sufficiently wide of the purpose -- they changed the current of the conversation , and diverted the general attention to the Veal and Ham Pie , the cold mutton , the potatoes , and the tart . In order that the bottled beer might not be slighted , John Peerybingle proposed To-morrow : the Wedding-day ; and called upon them to drink a bumper to it , before he proceeded on his journey . For you ought to know that he only rested there , and gave the old horse a bait . He had to go some four or five miles farther on ; and , when he returned in the evening , he called for Dot , and took another rest on his way home . This was the order of the day on all the Picnic occasions , and had been ever since their institution . There were two persons present , besides the bride and bridegroom elect , who did but indifferent honour to the toast . One of these was Dot , too flushed and discomposed to adapt herself to any small occurrence of the moment ; the other , Bertha , who rose up hurriedly before the rest , and left the table . `` Good-bye ! '' said stout John Peerybingle , pulling on his dreadnought coat . `` I shall be back at the old time . Good-bye all ! '' `` Good-bye , John , '' returned Caleb . He seemed to say it by rote , and to wave his hand in the same unconscious manner ; for he stood observing Bertha with an anxious wondering face , that never altered its expression . `` Good-bye , young shaver ! '' said the jolly Carrier , bending down to kiss the child ; which Tilly Slowboy , now intent upon her knife and fork , had deposited asleep -LRB- and , strange to say , without damage -RRB- in a little cot of Bertha 's furnishing ; `` good-bye !
Time will come , I suppose , when you 'll turn out into the cold , my little friend , and leave your old father XXXXX enjoy his pipe and his rheumatics in the chimney-corner ; eh ?
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