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You can have as much flirting as you like at your Boffins. But you won't take ME to your Boffins, I can tell you you and your Boffins too!
'Of course I have repeatedly thought of the Boffins, Sophronia, he resumed, after a fruitless silence; 'but I have seen my way to nothing. They are well guarded. That infernal Secretary stands between them and people of merit. 'If he could be got rid of? said she, brightening a little, after more casting about. 'Take time, Sophronia, observed her watchful husband, in a patronizing manner.
The butcher, though a portly and a prosperous man, doesn't know what to do with himself; so anxious is he to express humility when discovered by the passing Boffins taking the air in a mutton grove. Presents are made to the Boffin servants, and bland strangers with business-cards meeting said servants in the street, offer hypothetical corruption.
And now the worthy Mrs Wilfer, having used her youngest daughter as a lay-figure for the edification of these Boffins, became bland to her, and proceeded to develop her last instance of force of character, which was still in reserve.
He has known how to draw his lines broadly, so that all should see the colour. He, too, in his best days, always lived with his characters; and he, too, as he gradually ceased to have the power of doing so, ceased to charm. Though they are not human beings, we all remember Mrs. Gamp and Pickwick. The Boffins and Veneerings do not, I think, dwell in the minds of so many.
And this Mrs Wilfer now did, be it observed, in jealousy of these Boffins, in the very same moments when she was already reflecting how she would flourish these very same Boffins and the state they kept, over the heads of her Boffinless friends. 'Of their manners, said Mrs Wilfer, 'I say nothing. Of their appearance, I say nothing.
I don't choose to. And I won't! Lavinia's engineering having made this crooked opening at Bella, Mrs Wilfer strode into it. 'You rebellious spirit! You mutinous child! Tell me this, Lavinia. If in violation of your mother's sentiments, you had condescended to allow yourself to be patronized by the Boffins, and if you had come from those halls of slavery
And I say they are mischief-making Boffins, and I say the Boffins have set Bella against me, and I tell the Boffins to their faces: which was not strictly the fact, but the young lady was excited: 'that they are detestable Boffins, disreputable Boffins, odious Boffins, beastly Boffins. There! Here Miss Lavinia burst into tears.
It is not for a moment to be supposed that she and her husband dare to presume to speak of this family as the Wilfers. I cannot therefore condescend to speak of them as the Boffins. No; for such a tone call it familiarity, levity, equality, or what you will would imply those social interchanges which do not exist. Do I render myself intelligible?
The friend of the family was in that stage of tender passion which bound him to regard everybody else as the foe of the family. He put the round head of his cane in his mouth, like a stopper, when he sat down. As if he felt himself full to the throat with affronting sentiments. And he eyed the Boffins with implacable eyes.
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