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'I am so unfortunate as to have awakened a strong animosity in the breast of that lady, said Clennam. 'Do you know why? 'Does SHE know why? said Pancks. 'I suppose not. 'I suppose not, said Pancks.
He could only stare, and sometimes weakly mutter that it wouldn't be believed down Bleeding Heart Yard that this was Pancks; but he never said a word more, or made a sign more, even to Little Dorrit. Mr Pancks crowned his mysteries by making himself acquainted with Tip in some unknown manner, and taking a Sunday saunter into the College on that gentleman's arm.
Mr Baptist seemed to have a general understanding of what she said; or perhaps his quickness caught and applied her slight action of peeping. In any case he closed his eyes and tossed his head with the air of a man who had sufficient reasons for what he did, and said in his own tongue, it didn't matter. Altro! 'What's Altro? said Pancks. 'Hem!
Gradually, after this closing exposition, Mr Pancks subsided; allowed his hair to droop as much as it ever would droop on the utmost persuasion; reclaimed the pipe from the fire-irons, filled it anew, and smoked it out. They said little more; but were company to one another in silently pursuing the same subjects, and did not part until midnight.
I must resign to our creditors the power of management I have so much abused, and I must work out as much of my fault or crime as is susceptible of being worked out in the rest of my days. 'Is it impossible, sir, to tide over the present? 'Out of the question. Nothing can be tided over now, Pancks. The sooner the business can pass out of my hands, the better for it.
It came about in the simplest manner. Quitting the investment subject, after an interval of silent looking at the fire through the smoke of his pipe, he told Pancks how and why he was occupied with the great National Department. 'A hard case it has been, and a hard case it is on Doyce, he finished by saying, with all the honest feeling the topic roused in him. 'Hard indeed, Pancks acquiesced.
And as to the brim of his hat, it's narrow. And there's no more benevolence bubbling out of him, than out of a ninepin. 'Your own recompense for all this, Mr Pancks, said Clennam, 'ought to be a large one. 'I don't mistrust getting it, sir, said Pancks. 'I have made no bargain. I owed you one on that score; now I have paid it.
'As she justifies any recommendation, it is much the same thing. 'You are glad she turns out well, said Pancks, 'but it wouldn't have been your fault if she had turned out ill. The credit's not yours as it is, and the blame wouldn't have been yours as it might have been. You gave no guarantee.
I have heard of little enough to my advantage for some time. 'There's a Cornish property going a begging, sir, and not a Cornish Clennam to have it for the asking, said Pancks, taking his note-book from his breast pocket and putting it in again. 'I turn off here. I wish you good night. 'Good night! said Clennam.
From one of the many such defeats of one of many rent-days, Mr Pancks, having finished his day's collection, repaired with his note-book under his arm to Mrs Plornish's corner. Mr Pancks's object was not professional, but social. He had had a trying day, and wanted a little brightening.
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