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Little Dorrit's. So always as he sat alone in the faded chair, thinking. Always, Little Dorrit. Until it seemed to him as if he met the reward of having wandered away from her, and suffered anything to pass between him and his remembrance of her virtues. His door was opened, and the head of the elder Chivery was put in a very little way, without being turned towards him.
'You may, said Mrs Chivery, 'and I will give it to you in honour and in word as true as in this shop I stand. Our John has every one's good word and every one's good wish. He played with her as a child when in that yard a child she played. He has known her ever since.
She's wishful to say a word to you, sir, upon a point respecting yes, said Mr Chivery, answering Clennam's look of apprehension with a nod, 'respecting her. 'I will make a point of seeing your wife directly. 'Thank you, sir. Much obliged. It an't above ten minutes out of your way.
At the same time he cautioned her against assumptions and appearances; enjoined strict silence and secrecy, lest Miss Dorrit should be made unhappy; and particularly advised her to endeavour to win her son's confidence and so to make quite sure of the state of the case. Mrs Chivery considered the latter precaution superfluous, but said she would try.
I suppose I could have put it in evidence, Mr Chivery, if I had thought it worth my while, that the amount of solid sustenance my daughter consumed at that period did not exceed ten ounces per week. 'I think I go a little beyond that, sir, returned the other, hesitating, as if he confessed it with some shame.
The advance from a personal acquaintance with the elder Mr Chivery to an introduction to his amiable wife and disconsolate son, may have been easy; but easy or not, Mr Pancks soon made it. He nestled in the bosom of the tobacco business within a week or two after his first appearance in the College, and particularly addressed himself to the cultivation of a good understanding with Young John.
'If you please, John Chivery, she returned, trembling, but in a quiet way, 'since you are so considerate as to ask me whether you shall say any more if you please, no. 'Never, Miss Amy? 'No, if you please. Never. 'O Lord! gasped Young John. 'But perhaps you will let me, instead, say something to you. I want to say it earnestly, and with as plain a meaning as it is possible to express.
Mr Chivery said in a low growl, 'Oh! he was all right. Which was his general way of acknowledging inquiries after his health when a little sullen. 'I had a visit from Young John to-day, Chivery. And very smart he looked, I assure you. So Mr Chivery had heard. Mr Chivery must confess, however, that his wish was that the boy didn't lay out so much money upon it. For what did it bring him in?
'Thank you, sir, I will. And Mr Chivery junior went his way, having spontaneously composed on the spot an entirely new epitaph for himself, to the effect that Here lay the body of John Chivery, Who, Having at such a date, Beheld the idol of his life, In grief and tears, And feeling unable to bear the harrowing spectacle, Immediately repaired to the abode of his inconsolable parents, And terminated his existence by his own rash act.
I should have done you more harm than good, at first; for the prison was so familiar and yet so strange, and it brought back so many remembrances of my poor father, and of you too, that at first it overpowered me. But we went to Mr Chivery before we came to the gate, and he brought us in, and got john's room for us my poor old room, you know and we waited there a little.
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