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He's not wanted here, I suppose, said Jonas. 'He may go, mayn't he? 'Oh, let him stay, let him stay! said Tigg. 'He's a mere piece of furniture. He has been making his report, and is waiting for further orders. He has been told, said Tigg, raising his voice, 'not to lose sight of certain friends of ours, or to think that he has done with them by any means. He understands his business.
"Oh no, my man," he says; "you needn't mind that. I'll give Pecksniff orders to see to that." And I ask, said Mr Tapley, pointing, in conclusion, to Mr Tigg, with his hat, 'any lady or gentleman, possessing ordinary strength of mind, to say whether he's a disagreeable-looking chap or not!
'I don't believe they ARE white. 'Now I look again, they are not, replied his friend. 'They are coming right again. 'Say what you were going to say, cried Jonas angrily, 'and let my face be! 'Quite true, said Tigg. 'I was only going to say that you are too quick and active for our friend. He is too shy to cope with such a man as you, but does his duty well. Oh, very well!
He was a sailor-man to look at; but his profile, David, might have been carved by a Grecian chisel out of an iceberg, and that steel grey eye of his might have struck a chill, even through a chink, into any heart less stout than beats behind the vest of Montague Tigg.
'Don't be uneasy on that score. 'Oh, but I AM uneasy, said Tom Pinch; 'I can't help it, when I hear you talking in that way. If Mr Tigg is what you describe him to be, you have no business to know him, John. You may laugh, but I don't consider it by any means a laughing matter, I assure you. 'No, no, returned his friend, composing his features. 'Quite right. It is not, certainly.
'I am unfortunate to find you in this humour, said Tigg, with a remarkable kind of smile; 'for I was going to propose to you for your own advantage; solely for your own advantage that you should venture a little more with us. 'Was you, by G ? said Jonas, with a short laugh. 'Yes.
Mr Tigg added this condition to his memorandum; read the entry over to himself with a severe frown; and that the transaction might be the more correct and business-like, appended his initials to the whole. That done, he assured Mr Pinch that everything was now perfectly regular; and, after squeezing his hand with great fervour, departed.
'I shall be eternally delighted, answered Tigg, kissing his hand and smiling sweetly. The doctor disappeared into the outer office, and immediately returned with Jonas Chuzzlewit. 'Mr Montague, said Jobling. 'Allow me. My friend Mr Chuzzlewit. My dear friend our chairman.
'Why, then we come, said Mr Tigg, 'to the ridiculously small amount of eighteen pence. Ha! ha! 'And that, said Mr Pecksniff, 'would be equally objectionable.
'Well, said Jonas, 'on that account, you know, and because offence has been given me in other quarters, I wouldn't mind patronizing this Company. But I want to know what sort of security there is for the Company's going on. That's the 'Not the truth? cried Tigg, holding up his jewelled hand. 'Don't use that Sunday School expression, please! 'The long and the short of it, said Jonas.
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