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Now, if you will fetch any authorised neighbouring somebody to do it in return for my opening the door, I'll open the door. If this arrangement should be objectionable, I'll and with the same smile he made a significant feint of backing away. Mistress Affery, heartily glad to effect the proposed compromise, gave in her willing adhesion to it.
The waking Flintwinch was the old original; the sleeping Flintwinch was the double, just as she might have distinguished between a tangible object and its reflection in a glass, Affery made out this difference with her head going round and round. If she had had any doubt which was her own Jeremiah, it would have been resolved by his impatience.
Mrs Clennam shook her head; whether in dismissal of the deceased or opposing herself to her son's opinion, was not clearly expressed. 'After my father's death I opened it myself, thinking there might be, for anything I knew, some memorandum there. Mrs Clennam signified assent; then added, 'No more of business on this day, and then added, 'Affery, it is nine o'clock.
He said to me, "Affery, you and me must be married, and I'll tell you why. She's failing in health, and she'll want pretty constant attendance up in her room, and we shall have to be much with her, and there'll be nobody about now but ourselves when we're away from her, and altogether it will be more convenient.
'If they hadn't been both of a mind in it, how could it ever have been? Jeremiah never courted me; t'ant likely that he would, after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he'd done. He said to me one day, he said, "Affery," he said, "now I am going to tell you something. What do you think of the name of Flintwinch?" "What do I think of it?" I says.
This turning of his intelligence and of his whole attempt and design against himself, did even more than his mother's fixedness and firmness to convince him that his efforts with her were idle. Nothing remained but the appeal to his old friend Affery. But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings.
'Business-hours, I apprehend, are over for the day? 'Yes, yes, yes, cried Affery. 'Long ago. 'Let me make, then, a fair proposal. Fairness is a part of my character. I am just landed from the packet-boat, as you may see.
This reference to Mrs Clennam's voice reminded Mr Flintwinch to step into the hall and call up the staircase. 'It's all right, I am here, Affery is coming with your light. Then he said to the latter flustered woman, who was putting her cap on, 'Get out with you, and get up-stairs! and then turned to the stranger and said to him, 'Now, sir, what might you please to want?
'And do it properly, or I'll come rolling down the banisters, and tumbling over you! Affery headed the exploring party; Jeremiah closed it. He had no intention of leaving them.
In a moment Affery had thrown the stocking down, started up, caught hold of the windowsill with her right hand, lodged herself upon the window-seat with her right knee, and was flourishing her left hand, beating expected assailants off. 'No, I won't, Jeremiah no, I won't no, I won't! I won't go! I'll stay here. I'll hear all I don't know, and say all I know. I will, at last, if I die for it.
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