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'Not you sure? Ah, Lord save us! No, she cried out, seeing the other. 'Him again! 'It's true! Him again, dear Mrs Flintwinch, cried the stranger. 'Open the door, and let me take my dear friend Jeremiah to my arms! Open the door, and let me hasten myself to embrace my Flintwinch! 'He's not at home, cried Affery. 'Fetch him! cried the stranger. 'Fetch my Flintwinch!
He gazed at him with blank astonishment; he looked over his own shoulder, as expecting to see some one he had not been aware of standing behind him; he gazed at the stranger again, speechlessly, at a loss to know what he meant; he looked to his wife for explanation; receiving none, he pounced upon her, and shook her with such heartiness that he shook her cap off her head, saying between his teeth, with grim raillery, as he did it, 'Affery, my woman, you must have a dose, my woman!
'I don't know, said Mistress Affery, with her disengaged left hand extended towards the visitor. 'It ain't me. It's him! 'What does this good woman mean? cried Mr Blandois, turning white, hot, and slowly rising with a look of such deadly wrath that it contrasted surprisingly with the slight force of his words. 'How is it possible to understand this good creature?
Affery, woman, said Mr Flintwinch, with a friendly grin on his expressive countenance, 'if you ever have a dream of this sort again, it'll be a sign of your being in want of physic. And I'll give you such a dose, old woman such a dose! Mrs Flintwinch thanked him and crept into bed. Family Affairs
At some period of every day, he and Mrs Clennam held a council on matters of business; and it appeared to Affery, who was always groping about, listening and watching, that the two clever ones were making money.
Why not, jade! Thus expostulated with, she came unwillingly out of her corner, resigned the toasting-fork into one of her husband's hands, and took the candlestick he offered from the other. 'Go before, you fool! said Jeremiah. 'Are you going up, or down, Mrs Finching? Flora answered, 'Down. 'Then go before, and down, you Affery, said Jeremiah.
'You are as safe with me as if he was fifty miles away. 'Affery, I want to know what is amiss here; I want some light thrown on the secrets of this house. 'I tell you, Arthur, she interrupted, 'noises is the secrets, rustlings and stealings about, tremblings, treads overhead and treads underneath. 'But those are not all the secrets. 'I don't know, said Affery. 'Don't ask me no more.
'My good Affery, I solemnly declare to you that I can see the light of the open door on the pavement of the hall, and so could you if you would uncover your face and look. 'I durstn't do it, said Affery, 'I durstn't never, Arthur. I'm always blind-folded when Jeremiah an't a looking, and sometimes even when he is. 'He cannot shut the door without my seeing him, said Arthur.
Thus refreshed, he tucked up his shirt-sleeves and went to work again; and Mr Arthur, watching him as he set about it, plainly saw that his father's picture, or his father's grave, would be as communicative with him as this old man. 'Now, Affery, woman, said Mr Flintwinch, as she crossed the hall. 'You hadn't made Mr Arthur's bed when I was up there last. Stir yourself. Bustle.
'Lord bless us, I should think I did, I should think I did! cried Affery, exasperated into a new wringing of hands by the inquiry. 'Where about here? 'Where! cried Affery, goaded into another inspection of the keyhole. 'Where but here in this house?
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