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Mrs Gowan with a gentle melancholy upon her, occasioned by her son's being reduced to court the swinish public as a follower of the low Arts, instead of asserting his birthright and putting a ring through its nose as an acknowledged Barnacle, headed the conversation at dinner on the evil days. It was then that Clennam learned for the first time what little pivots this great world goes round upon.
He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. He seemed to have been sitting for his portrait to Sir Thomas Lawrence all the days of his life. 'Mr Clennam? said Mr Barnacle. 'Be seated. Mr Clennam became seated. 'You have called on me, I believe, said Mr Barnacle, 'at the Circumlocution giving it the air of a word of about five-and-twenty syllables 'Office.
There must have been some traces of earnestness visible, I fancy, on my inky face, for I saw Mr Barnacle look at me curiously as I spoke, while there was the faintest perceptible twitch at the corners of his lips. "Go and wash at once," he said, sternly.
"No, I won't go with the letter," I replied, in decided tones. "You'll be sorry for it, Batchelor," he said, in a significant way. "Shall I?" "You would not like my uncle and Mr Barnacle to be told of your early visits here without leave." "They are quite welcome to know it." "And of my catching you and Smith going into their private room."
The other close friend that I made aboard the Scarboro during the first few days of the voyage, was old Tom Anderly. He was the bewhiskered old barnacle who had welcomed the possibility of getting oil in the bark's tanks from the dead whale, when I had first come aboard.
"And you think you would suit us?" "I'd try, sir," said I. "Do you know what our work is?" said Mr Barnacle. "No, sir, not exactly," I replied. "Generally speaking," mildly put in Mr Merrett, "you've a sort of idea." "Yes," said I, not quite sure whether I was telling the truth or not. Mr Barnacle touched his bell, and the clerk appeared. "Bring me the invoice-book, Doubleday."
I brought him out of the office door by the collar, that the very porter might know I was a practical man who appreciated the official estimate of such characters; and here we are! If that airy young Barnacle had been there, he would have frankly told them perhaps that the Circumlocution Office had achieved its function.
Then she hugged the kiddie clost to her, standing straight and queenly, her eyes ablaze, her lips moist, and red, and scornful. "God, she was grand but him? He looked like a barnacle. "'Olive! says he, bull-froggy, and that's all. Just quit like a dog and ate her up by long-distance eyesight. Lord!
Dolly gave heed and promptly attached herself with the persistency of a barnacle to a weather-beaten junk. By devices worthy a finished fisher of men, she holds him to his job of suitor, and if in a moment of abstraction his would-be ardor for Sada grows too perceptible, the little lady reels in a yard or so of line to make sure her prize is still dangling on the hook.
But when he entered Oxford he threw off all restraint and gave himself up to a life of utter dissipation, and before long his father received a polite note from the college authorities, intimating that to save further disgrace he had better call his worthy son home. After this he became a dissipated tavern lounger, a barnacle on the good ship of society, a miserable sponge.
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