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'All the wickedness of the world is Print to him. Mr Bailey received this as a compliment, and said, adjusting his cravat, 'reether so. 'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p'raps, what her chris'en name is? Mrs Gamp observed. 'Charity, said Bailey. 'That it ain't! cried Mrs Gamp. 'Cherry, then, said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It's all the same.
'It ain't a common name. Sermuchser that when he was took to church the gen'lm'n said, it wam't a chris'en one, and he couldn't give it. But we always calls him Biler just the same. For we don't mean no harm. Not we. 'Do you mean to say, Man, inquired Mr Dombey; looking at him with marked displeasure, 'that you have called a child after a boiler?
Chris'en name, Bradley sim'lar to Roger which is my own. Eh? Fam'ly name, Headstone, sim'lar to Riderhood which is my own. Eh? Shrill chorus. 'Yes! 'Might you be acquainted, learned governor, said Riderhood, 'with a person of about your own heighth and breadth, and wot 'ud pull down in a scale about your own weight, answering to a name sounding summat like Totherest?
You dunno what it is, maybe, to have one person in the world as shows a sort o' respect for you that gives you his hand honestly, like a gentleman, and your full Chris'en name. It does good when a body's been banged about as I've been, and more used to curses than kind words, and not a friend to look after me if I was layin' at Death's door and I don't say you wouldn't come, Sandy, but you can't.
Datchery drops some money, stoops to pick it up, and reddens with the exertion as he asks: 'How do you know the young gentleman's name? 'I asked him for it, and he told it me. I only asked him the two questions, what was his Chris'en name, and whether he'd a sweetheart? And he answered, Edwin, and he hadn't. Mr.
'You speak truth in that, sir, if you never speaks no more 'twixt this and when two Sundays jines together. I feels the sufferins of other people more than I feels my own, though no one mayn't suppoge it. The families I've had, said Mrs Gamp, 'if all was knowd and credit done where credit's doo, would take a week to chris'en at Saint Polge's fontin!
If you don't give me three-and-sixpence, don't give me a brass farden. And if you do give me three-and-sixpence, deary, I'll tell you something. He counts the money from his pocket, and puts it in her hand. She instantly clutches it tight, and rises to her feet with a croaking laugh of satisfaction. 'Bless ye! Hark'ee, dear genl'mn. What's your Chris'en name? 'Edwin.
The sound came on in a regular tune, and as I lay hidden, I fancied the tune so played to be, "Chris'en George King! Chris'en George King! Chris'en George King!" over and over again, always the same, with the pauses always at the same places. "Chris'en George King! Chris'en George King! Chris'en George King!" coming up, now, very near.
''Totherest Governor, replied Mr Riderhood, mollified and mysterious, 'I know wot it is to be loud, and I know wot it is to be soft. Nat'rally I do. It would be a wonder if I did not, being by the Chris'en name of Roger, which took it arter my own father, which took it from his own father, though which of our fam'ly fust took it nat'ral I will not in any ways mislead you by undertakin' to say.
What's the difference, in the sight o' the Lord, between the one that has a bad name and the one that has a good name? Come, you set yourself up for a Chris'en, and so I ask you whether you're the one that ought to fling the first stone; whether repentance and there's that, of course, for you a'n't a nateral bad man, Doctor, but rather the contrary oughtn't to be showed in deeds, to be wuth much!
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