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Neither was it rendered more favourable to sanity by Flora's dashing into a rapid analysis of Mr Flintwinch's cravat, and describing him, without the lightest boundary line of separation between his identity and Mrs Clennam's, as a rusty screw in gaiters.
It could scarcely be said to be within call, the walls, doors, and panelling of the old place were so cumbrous; but it was within easy reach, in any undress, at any hour of the night, in any temperature. At the head of the bed and within a foot of Mrs Flintwinch's ear, was a bell, the line of which hung ready to Mrs Clennam's hand.
All the while, Clennam was pursuing the probabilities rather as if they were being shown to him by an invisible hand than as if he himself were conjuring them up of Mr Flintwinch's ways and means of doing that darker deed, and removing its traces by any of the black avenues of shadow that lay around them. 'Now, sir, said the testy Jeremiah; 'will it be agreeable to walk up-stairs?
Her frequent forgetfulness of this admonition intensified her startled manner, since Mr Flintwinch's habit of avenging himself on her remissness by making springs after her on the staircase, and shaking her, occasioned her to be always nervously uncertain when she might be thus waylaid next.
He found, when he looked up, that this sensation was not a fanciful one. 'Now you know as much, said Mrs Clennam, 'as we know, sir. Is Mr Blandois a friend of yours? 'No a hum an acquaintance, answered Mr Dorrit. 'You have no commission from him, perhaps? 'I? Ha. Certainly not. The searching look turned gradually to the floor, after taking Mr Flintwinch's face in its way.
The effect of this fancy was to keep her staring at him with the tea-pot in her hand, not only to her own great uneasiness, but manifestly to his, too; and, through them both, to Mrs Clennam's and Mr Flintwinch's. Thus a few ghostly moments supervened, when they were all confusedly staring without knowing why. 'Affery, her mistress was the first to say, 'what is the matter with you?
He spirted it into Mr Flintwinch's face when the old man advanced to take it, and held forth his hand, repeating noisily, 'Pay it! Count it out! Good money! Jeremiah picked the bill up, looked at the total with a bloodshot eye, took a small canvas bag from his pocket, and told the amount into his hand.
'Wretch that you are, she answered, and now her hands clasped her head: 'through what fatal error of Flintwinch's, through what incompleteness on his part, who was the only other person helping in these things and trusted with them, through whose and what bringing together of the ashes of a burnt paper, you have become possessed of that codicil, I know no more than how you acquired the rest of your power here
'Good evening, said Mr Flintwinch. The smoke came crookedly out of Mr Flintwinch's mouth, as if it circulated through the whole of his wry figure and came back by his wry throat, before coming forth to mingle with the smoke from the crooked chimneys and the mists from the crooked river. 'Have you any news? said Arthur. 'We have no news, said Jeremiah.
'That man's antecedents, I suppose, were not known to you, before he told you? 'No. 'Though the man himself was? 'Yes. 'My case and Flintwinch's, in respect of this other man! I dare say the resemblance is not so exact, though, as that your informant became known to you through a letter from a correspondent with whom he had deposited money? How does that part of the parallel stand?
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