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Little Dorrit, fluttered by his words, did not know what to say, though he stopped as if he expected her to say something. 'Amy, he resumed; 'your dear sister, our Fanny, has contracted ha hum a marriage, eminently calculated to extend the basis of our ha connection, and to hum consolidate our social relations.
It was his last demonstration for that time, but in the interval before the day of his departure he was very imperious with the lawyers concerned in his release, and a good deal of business was transacted. Mr. Arthur Clennam received a cheque for £24 93. 8d. from the solicitors of Edward Dorrit, Esq. once "Tip" with a note that the favour of the advance now repaid had not been asked of him.
He noted everything, from the saucy street waif to the sorrowful prison child, from the poor little drudge to the brutal schoolmaster, and he transplanted them from life to fiction, in such characters as Sam Weller, Little Dorrit, the Marchioness, Mr. Squeers, and a hundred others. While in the attorney's office, Dickens began to study shorthand, in order to become a reporter.
Flippin's kettle sings and the crickets chirp and Mr. and Mrs. Flippin are comfortable and cozy and content." It was a long speech. "So now yon see," she said, as she ended, "why I like Dickens." "Yes. I see. And so in your next incarnation you are going to be like " "Little Dorrit." He laughed and leaned forward. "I can't imagine you." "She really had a heavenly time.
The wholesale amount of Prunes and Prism which Mrs General infused into the family life, combined with the perpetual plunges made by Fanny into society, left but a very small residue of any natural deposit at the bottom of the mixture. This rendered confidences with Fanny doubly precious to Little Dorrit, and heightened the relief they afforded her.
'I do not, said Mrs General, 'lose sight of the circumstance. 'Madam,'pursued Mr Dorrit, 'of my daughter Fanny, under her present guidance and with such an example constantly before her There is adaptability of character in Fanny. But my younger daughter, Mrs General, rather worries and vexes my thoughts. I must inform you that she has always been my favourite.
Now under these circumstances, and considering that none of us can quite set ourselves above public opinion, wouldn't a trifling concession to that opinion be Come, sir, said Rugg, 'I will put it on the lowest ground of argument, and say, amiable? Arthur's thoughts had once more wandered away to Little Dorrit, and the question remained unanswered.
A second revolution seemed to be drawing near. Dickens put on record, in chapter xxvi. of Little Dorrit, the alarms which agitated respectable and reactionary circles. The one point, as Dickens remarked, on which everyone agreed, was that the country was in very imminent danger, and wanted all the preserving it could get. Presently, but not till 1867, the second revolution arrived.
I am a very child as to having any notion of business, said Mrs Merdle; 'but I am afraid, Mr Dorrit, it may have that tendency. This skilful see-saw of Mr Dorrit and Mrs Merdle, so that each of them sent the other up, and each of them sent the other down, and neither had the advantage, acted as a sedative on Mr Dorrit's cough.
Upon which Flora returned to take care of her, and hovered about her on a sofa, intermingling kind offices and incoherent scraps of conversation in a manner so confounding, that whether she pressed the Marshalsea to take a spoonful of unclaimed dividends, for it would do her good; or whether she congratulated Little Dorrit's father on coming into possession of a hundred thousand smelling-bottles; or whether she explained that she put seventy-five thousand drops of spirits of lavender on fifty thousand pounds of lump sugar, and that she entreated Little Dorrit to take that gentle restorative; or whether she bathed the foreheads of Doyce and Clennam in vinegar, and gave the late Mr F. more air; no one with any sense of responsibility could have undertaken to decide.
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