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Partly in his old habit of submission, partly because his not doing it might injure his benefactor, and partly because he would as soon do it as anything else, Cavalletto took up the Refrain this time. Rigaud laughed, and fell to smoking with his eyes shut.
'I ought first to see for myself that he has something on his mind, I think, said Clennam. And that would be very unjust. 'True, said Pancks. 'But, I say! You oughtn't to be anybody's proprietor, Mr Clennam. You're much too delicate. 'For the matter of that, returned Clennam laughing, 'I have not a large proprietary share in Cavalletto. His carving is his livelihood.
I require a deal of pulling through, Arthur, said Mr Meagles, shaking his head, 'a deal of pulling through. I stick at everything beyond a noun-substantive and I stick at him, if he's at all a tight one. 'Now I think of it, returned Clennam, 'there's Cavalletto. He shall go with you, if you like. I could not afford to lose him, but you will bring him safe back. 'Well!
In answer to Cavalletto's look of inquiry, Clennam made him a sign to go; but he added aloud, 'unless you are afraid of him. Cavalletto replied with a very emphatic finger-negative.'No, master, I am not afraid of him, when I no more keep it secrettementally that he was once my comrade. Rigaud took no notice of either remark until he had lighted his last cigarette and was quite ready for walking.
His door was immediately swung open by a thump, and in the doorway stood the missing Blandois, the cause of many anxieties. 'Salve, fellow jail-bird! said he. 'You want me, it seems. Here I am! Before Arthur could speak to him in his indignant wonder, Cavalletto followed him into the room. Mr Pancks followed Cavalletto.
This seemed to draw his attention to him anew. He set down his glass and said: 'I'll not fill it. What! I am born to be served. Come then, you Cavalletto, and fill! The little man looked at Clennam, whose eyes were occupied with Rigaud, and, seeing no prohibition, got up from the ground, and poured out from the bottle into the glass.
Again Cavalletto got up, and gave him what he wanted. There had been something dreadful in the noiseless skill of his cold, white hands, with the fingers lithely twisting about and twining one over another like serpents. Clennam could not prevent himself from shuddering inwardly, as if he had been looking on at a nest of those creatures.
'Not a word to any one but me, Cavalletto. 'Al-tro! cried Cavalletto. And was gone with great speed. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams Left alone, with the expressive looks and gestures of Mr Baptist, otherwise Giovanni Baptista Cavalletto, vividly before him, Clennam entered on a weary day.
With Cavalletto and Pancks away, he had no visitors to fear but Mr and Mrs Plornish. His anxiety, in reference to that worthy pair, was that they should not come near him; for, in the morbid state of his nerves, he sought to be left alone, and spared the being seen so subdued and weak.
Clennam fell back as if the word had struck him a blow: so terrible did it make his mother's communication with the man appear. Cavalletto dropped on one knee, and implored him, with a redundancy of gesticulation, to hear what had brought himself into such foul company.
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