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Then there was a young gentleman, grandnephew of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit, very dark and very hairy, and apparently born for no particular purpose but to save looking-glasses the trouble of reflecting more than just the first idea and sketchy notion of a face, which had never been carried out.
Their fair young friend, too, said Mr Pecksniff, 'whom they so desire to know and love indeed to know her, is to love I hope I see her well. I hope in saying, "Welcome to my humble roof!" I find some echo in her own sentiments. If features are an index to the heart, I have no fears of that. An extremely engaging expression of countenance, Mr Chuzzlewit, my dear sir very much so!
'You'll not object, he said, when he was quite equipped, 'to venture further with us, Chuzzlewit, my friend? His pale lips faintly stammered out a 'No. 'Well said! That's like yourself. Do you know I was thinking yesterday that your father-in-law, relying on your advice as a man of great sagacity in money matters, as no doubt you are, would join us, if the thing were well presented to him.
A township called Malmsbury has been laid out here in small allotments with the expectation of a future city; but as yet not a house has been erected, with the exception of the "hotel" before mentioned, putting one in mind of the American Eden in "Martin Chuzzlewit."
'The short statement that I wish you to hear from his own lips, Mr Chuzzlewit, John pursued looking attentively at him, and not at Martin 'he made to me for the first time yesterday, and repeated to me this morning, without the least variation of any essential particular.
Mr Pecksniff as slowly rose, and, with a prefatory hem, began as follows: 'Mr Chuzzlewit. 'There. Go! interposed the other. 'Enough of this. I am weary of you. 'I am sorry for that, sir, rejoined Mr Pecksniff, 'because I have a duty to discharge, from which, depend upon it, I shall not shrink. No, sir, I shall not shrink.
'Well, Mrs Gamp, observed Mould, 'I don't see any particular objection to your earning an honest penny under such circumstances. I should keep it quiet, I think, Mrs Gamp. I wouldn't mention it to Mr Chuzzlewit on his return, for instance, unless it were necessary, or he asked you pointblank. 'The very words was on my lips, sir, Mrs Gamp rejoined.
Unobserved, they received, and made their own preparations for utilising, the legacy of the mid-Victorian novel moral thesis, plot, underplot, set characters, descriptive machinery, landscape colouring, copious phraseology, Herculean proportions, and the rest of the cumbrous and grandiose paraphernalia of Chuzzlewit, Pendennis, and Middlemarch.
She is respectable, but not sentimental, and will state the fact. A line addressed to Mrs Gamp, at the Bird Shop, Kingsgate Street, High Holborn, London, will meet with every attention, I have no doubt. Let her be examined, my good sir. Strike, but hear! Leap, Mr Chuzzlewit, but look!
It was soon arranged between them that the project should be tried, and that immediately; and that Cherry's not being well, and needing change of scene, and wishing to be near her sister, should form the excuse for her departure to Mr Chuzzlewit and Mary, to both of whom she had pleaded indisposition for some time past.
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