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'Why, he has sauntered into the Arts at a leisurely Pall-Mall pace, said Doyce, 'and I doubt if they care to be taken quite so coolly.
Katie, give me that tray and run back for the little rustic stand in the arbor oh, thank you, Mr. Dalton! Now, Dodo, sit down there and don't speak till you have eaten that cookie all up." "Two tookies, Doyce. Two-o tookies!" "Very well, two or twenty, only that you remain tongue-tied meanwhile. Shall I give you a glass, Mr. Dalton?"
We will not disparage this gentleman, because he is successful in his addresses to the beautiful object of his ambition; and we will not question her natural right to bestow her love on one whom she finds worthy of it. 'Maybe, my friend, said Doyce. 'Maybe also, that she is too young and petted, too confiding and inexperienced, to discriminate well.
She glanced at him tenderly, and resumed: 'In times for ever fled I was going to say it would have sounded strange indeed for Arthur Clennam Doyce and Clennam naturally quite different to make apologies for coming here at any time, but that is past and what is past can never be recalled except in his own case as poor Mr F. said when he was in spirits Cucumber and therefore never ate it.
'No, no company. 'And how did you get on, you four? asked Clennam gaily. 'There were five of us, returned his partner. 'There was What's-his-name. He was there. 'Who is he? said Clennam. 'Mr Henry Gowan. 'Ah, to be sure! cried Clennam with unusual vivacity, 'Yes! I forgot him. 'As I mentioned, you may remember, said Daniel Doyce, 'he is always there on Sunday.
He asked his partner to explain the invention to him; 'having a lenient consideration, he stipulated, 'for my being no workman, Doyce. 'No workman? said Doyce. 'You would have been a thorough workman if you had given yourself to it. You have as good a head for understanding such things as I have met with. 'A totally uneducated one, I am sorry to add, said Clennam.
'To the foreigner from Italy who disappeared in the City as no doubt you have read in the papers equally with myself, said Flora, 'not referring to private sources by the name of Pancks from which one gathers what dreadfully ill-natured things some people are wicked enough to whisper most likely judging others by themselves and what the uneasiness and indignation of Arthur quite unable to overcome it Doyce and Clennam cannot fail to be.
Arthur Clennam could not help joining in the good-humoured laugh, for he recognised the truth of the description. 'So I find that I must have a partner who is a man of business and not guilty of any inventions, said Daniel Doyce, taking off his hat to pass his hand over his forehead, 'if it's only in deference to the current opinion, and to uphold the credit of the Works.
Clennam, however, finding him already beginning to be pacified, had said all he wanted to say, and more. He wrung his hand, only adding, 'Blind leaders of the blind, Pancks! Blind leaders of the blind! But Doyce, Doyce, Doyce; my injured partner! That brought his head down on the desk once more. Their former attitudes and their former silence were once more first encroached upon by Pancks.
There was silence, which was not broken until Arthur had stood for some time at the window with his back towards them, and until his little wife that was to be had gone to him and stayed by him. 'I made a remark a little while ago, said Daniel Doyce then, 'which I am inclined to think was an incorrect one. I said there was nothing to detain you here, Clennam, half an hour longer.
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