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In their later conferences his snorting assumed an irritable sound which boded the Patriarch no good; likewise, Mr Pancks had on several occasions looked harder at the Patriarchal bumps than was quite reconcilable with the fact of his not being a painter, or a peruke-maker in search of the living model.
Let me introduce him. With those words he presented another man without a hat, and also with a cigar, and also surrounded with a halo of ale and tobacco smoke, which man, though not so excited as himself, was in a state which would have been akin to lunacy but for its fading into sober method when compared with the rampancy of Mr Pancks. 'Mr Clennam, Mr Rugg, said Pancks. 'Stop a moment.
There was something so indubitably genuine in the wonderful laugh, and series of snorts and puffs, engendered in Mr Pancks's astonishment at, and utter rejection of, the idea, that his being quite in earnest could not be questioned. 'Growing old? cried Pancks. 'Hear, hear, hear! Old? Hear him, hear him!
'Why, not much as yet, sir, on accounts I suppose of not being able to walk much; but he goes about the Yard, and he chats without particular understanding or being understood, and he plays with the children, and he sits in the sun he'll sit down anywhere, as if it was an arm-chair and he'll sing, and he'll laugh! 'Laugh! echoed Mr Pancks.
Arthur continuing to lie very ill in the Marshalsea, and Mr Rugg descrying no break in the legal sky affording a hope of his enlargement, Mr Pancks suffered desperately from self-reproaches.
On the other hand, when he recalled his conversation with Pancks, and the little reason he had to suppose that there was any likelihood of that strange personage being on that track at all, there were times when he wondered that he made so much of it. Labouring in this sea, as all barks labour in cross seas, he tossed about and came to no haven.
'Well, well, well! returned Arthur. 'Enough for to-night. 'One word more, Mr Clennam, retorted Pancks, 'and then enough for to-night. Why should you leave all the gains to the gluttons, knaves, and impostors? Why should you leave all the gains that are to be got to my proprietor and the like of him? Yet you're always doing it. When I say you, I mean such men as you. You know you are.
'If I was Mr Merdle, sir, you wouldn't have cause to complain of me then. No, believe me! the Defaulter would proceed with a shake of the head. 'I'd pay up so quick then, Mr Pancks, that you shouldn't have to ask me. The response would be heard again here, implying that it was impossible to say anything fairer, and that this was the next thing to paying the money down.
The foreigner, by name John Baptist Cavalletto they called him Mr Baptist in the Yard was such a chirping, easy, hopeful little fellow, that his attraction for Pancks was probably in the force of contrast.
You knew nothing about her. 'You are not acquainted, then, said Arthur, hazarding a random question, 'with any of her family? 'Acquainted with any of her family? returned Pancks. 'How should you be acquainted with any of her family? You never heard of 'em. You can't be acquainted with people you never heard of, can you? You should think not!
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