[CHAPTER XV.]
MRS. BOODELS—BOODELS—HIS GRANDMOTHER'S OBSERVATION—HER FATE SEALED—THE COMEDY—HER DEPOSITION—NEW PROPOSAL—AWKWARD—MILBURD'S RELATION—INVITATION—THE DINNER HOUR—RECOMMENDATION—DECISION.
Being deaf, Mrs. Boodels has, as our friend Captain Byrton expresses it, six to four the best of us. Repartees through an ear-trumpet lose their sting. And then you can't in politeness, and in all respect, sting an old lady of seventy-five.
The other evening Boodels says, blushingly, that some of his friends tell him that he is just the man to write a comedy.
This is repeated to his grandmother through the trumpet.
“Yes,” she says, quietly; “I've heard John's friends say that he can write a comedy, and I've heard 'em add that they hope he won't.”
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Since this we've not heard any more of Boodels' comedy. I rather think that he's got it all ready to read to us.
Next morning after this observation of Mrs. Boodels, her grandson comes with Milburd to my room.
