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Mr Wegg thus came out of his disadvantage with quite a chivalrous air, and not only that, but by dint of repeating with a manly delicacy, 'In Mrs Boffin's presence, sir, we had better drop it! turned the disadvantage on Boffin, who felt that he had committed himself in a very painful manner.
I believed that I had only heard of Mr Rokesmith. With an emphasis on the name. 'When Mr Lightwood saw me, my love, observed her husband, not avoiding his eye, but looking at him, 'my name was Julius Handford. Julius Handford! The name that Bella had so often seen in old newspapers, when she was an inmate of Mr Boffin's house!
You can call at the Bower any time in a week or two. It's not above a mile or so from you, and your landlord can direct you to it. But as he may not know it by its new name of Boffin's Bower, say, when you inquire of him, it's Harmon's; will you? 'Harmoon's, repeated Mr Rokesmith, seeming to have caught the sound imperfectly, 'Harmarn's. How do you spell it?
And once, when he did this in a manner that amounted to personal, I should have given him a rattler for himself, if Mrs Boffin hadn't thrown herself betwixt us, and received flush on the temple. Which dropped her, Mr Lightwood. Dropped her. Mr Lightwood murmured 'Equal honour Mrs Boffin's head and heart.
Whether it shall be openly declared in the new notices that must now be put about in our names 'In your name, Mr Boffin; in your name. 'Very well; in my name, which is the same as Mrs Boffin's, and means both of us, is to be considered in drawing 'em up. But this is the first instruction that I, as the owner of the property, give to my lawyer on coming into it.
This brings me round comfortable, and that brings him round comfortable, and then John and him and me we all fall a crying for joy. 'Yes! They cry for joy, my darling, her husband struck in. 'You understand? These two, whom I come to life to disappoint and dispossess, cry for joy! Bella looked at him confusedly, and looked again at Mrs Boffin's radiant face.
'That's fair, and I don't object, said Mr Boffin; 'but it must be on condition that it's fully understood that I no more know that I shall ever be in want of any gentleman as Secretary it WAS Secretary you said; wasn't it? 'Yes. Again Mr Boffin's eyes opened wide, and he stared at the applicant from head to foot, repeating 'Queer! You're sure it was Secretary? Are you? 'I am sure I said so.
Far less grand than the rest of the house, it was far more comfortable, being pervaded by a certain air of homely snugness, which upholstering despotism had banished to that spot when it inexorably set its face against Mr Boffin's appeals for mercy in behalf of any other chamber.
Bella, thus directed, would examine the window with the greatest attention, while Mr Boffin would examine her face. The moment she pointed out any book as being entitled Lives of eccentric personages, Anecdotes of strange characters, Records of remarkable individuals, or anything to that purpose, Mr Boffin's countenance would light up, and he would instantly dart in and buy it.
But, catching sight of Mrs Boffin's wholesome face, she relented, and crouching down by the door and bending over her burden to hush it, said humbly: 'Maybe my fears has put me wrong. If they have so, tell me, and the good Lord forgive me! I'm quick to take this fright, I know, and my head is summ'at light with wearying and watching. 'There, there, there! returned Mrs Boffin. 'Come, come!
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