But Sir Mulberry Hawk was not to be so easily repulsed, for he advanced
with extended hand; and Mrs Nickleby officiously informing Kate of this
circumstance, she was obliged to extend her own. Sir Mulberry detained
it while he murmured a profusion of compliments, which Kate, remembering
what had passed between them, rightly considered as so many aggravations
of the insult he had already put upon her. Then followed the recognition
of Lord Verisopht, and then the greeting of Mr Pyke, and then that of Mr
Pluck, and finally, to complete the young lady's mortification, she
was compelled at Mrs Wititterly's request to perform the ceremony
of introducing the odious persons, whom she regarded with the utmost
indignation and abhorrence.
'Mrs Wititterly is delighted,' said Mr Wititterly, rubbing his hands;
'delighted, my lord, I am sure, with this opportunity of contracting an
acquaintance which, I trust, my lord, we shall improve. Julia, my dear,
you must not allow yourself to be too much excited, you must not.
Indeed you must not. Mrs Wititterly is of a most excitable nature, Sir
Mulberry. The snuff of a candle, the wick of a lamp, the bloom on a
peach, the down on a butterfly.
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