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Updated: June 9, 2025
At length the Captain decided, as the lesser of two evils, to run round to Brogley's the Broker's: previously locking the door that communicated with the upper part of the house, and putting the key in his pocket. 'If so be, said the Captain to Mr Toots, with not a little shame and hesitation, 'as you'll excuse my doing of it, brother.
'Going, Walter! said Florence. 'Where? 'He slings his hammock for the present, lady lass, said Captain Cuttle, 'round at Brogley's. Within hail, Heart's Delight. 'I am the cause of your going away, Walter, said Florence. 'There is a houseless sister in your place. 'Dear Miss Dombey, replied Walter, hesitating 'if it is not too bold to call you so! Walter! she exclaimed, surprised.
But coming to the door, I found him waiting there; and he said was I coming back again, and I said yes; and he said did I know you, and I said, yes, I had the pleasure of your acquaintance you had given me the pleasure of your acquaintance, after some persuasion; and he said, if that was the case, would I say to you what I have said, about existing circumstances and coming prepared, and as soon as ever I saw you, would I ask you to step round the corner, if it was only for one minute, on most important business, to Mr Brogley's the Broker's.
Of motionless clocks that never stirred a finger, and seemed as incapable of being successfully wound up, as the pecuniary affairs of their former owners, there was always great choice in Mr Brogley's shop; and various looking-glasses, accidentally placed at compound interest of reflection and refraction, presented to the eye an eternal perspective of bankruptcy and ruin.
There were the usual entanglement and noise of carts, drays, omnibuses, waggons, and foot passengers, but the misfortune that had fallen on the wooden Midshipman made it strange and new. Houses and shops were different from what they used to be, and bore Mr Brogley's warrant on their fronts in large characters.
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