"It cost a thousand
guineas--and no error! Now you bend your lovely head, and I puts it on
you--oh, ain't you more beautiful than the Queen of Sheba! And ain't you
Melky's queen, Mrs. Goldmark--say you was!"
"Lor', Mr. Rubinstein!" said Mrs. Goldmark, coyly. "It's as if you was
proposing to me!"
"Why, ain't I?" exclaimed Melky, gathering courage. "Don't you see I'm in
all my best clothes? Ain't it nothing but weddings, just now? There's Mr.
Lauriston a-going to marry Zillah, and Mr. Purdie's a-fixing it up with
Levendale's governess, and--oh, Mrs. Goldmark, ain't I worshipped you
every time I come to eat my dinner in your eating house? Ain't you the
loveliest woman in all Paddington. Say the word, Mrs. Goldmark--don't you
see I'm like as if I was that hungry I could eat you?"
Then Mrs. Goldmark said the word--and presently escaped from Melky's
embrace to look at herself and her necklace in the mirror.
THE END
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