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When free from the trammels of passion, Mrs General closed her eyes at the word, as if she could not utter it, and see anybody; 'when occurring with the approbation of near relatives; and when cementing the proud structure of a family edifice; these are usually auspicious events. I trust Miss Dorrit will allow me to offer her my best congratulations.
To the inexpressible consternation of her lover, Little Dorrit, with her hands to her averted face, and rocking herself where she stood as if she were in pain, murmured, 'O father, how can you! O dear, dear father, how can you, can you, do it!
'You see, while you have been domestic and resignedly shut up there, Amy, pursued her sister, gradually beginning to patronise, 'I have been out, moving more in Society, and may have been getting proud and spirited more than I ought to be, perhaps? Little Dorrit answered 'Yes. O yes!
Here she shook herself, and fell asleep again. 'We went there, said Little Dorrit, glancing at her charge, 'because I like sometimes to know, of my own knowledge, that my sister is doing well; and like to see her there, with my own eyes, when neither she nor Uncle is aware.
Here's father, you see, come out to serve at the sound of the bell, like a brisk young shopman. Ain't he looking well? Father's more pleased to see you than if you was a customer, for he dearly loves a gossip; and when it turns upon Miss Dorrit, he loves it all the more.
'Come, I'll give you a clue, child, said Fanny. 'Mrs General. Prunes and Prism, in a thousand combinations, having been wearily in the ascendant all day everything having been surface and varnish and show without substance Little Dorrit looked as if she had hoped that Mrs General was safely tucked up in bed for some hours. 'Now, can you guess, Amy? said Fanny. 'No, dear.
He had come to attach to Little Dorrit an interest so peculiar an interest that removed her from, while it grew out of, the common and coarse things surrounding her that he found it disappointing, disagreeable, almost painful, to suppose her in love with young Mr Chivery in the back-yard, or any such person.
The autumn days went on, and Little Dorrit never came to the Marshalsea now and went away without seeing him. No, no, no.
This ended the scene; Edward Dorrit, Esquire, saying nothing throughout, but looking, to the last, perplexed and doubtful. Miss Fanny awakened much affectionate uneasiness in her sister's mind that day by passing the greater part of it in violent fits of embracing her, and in alternately giving her brooches, and wishing herself dead. Something Right Somewhere
'There's been a lady at our place to-day, Miss Dorrit, Plornish growled, 'and another one along with her as is a old wixen if ever I met with such. The way she snapped a person's head off, dear me! The mild Plornish was at first quite unable to get his mind away from Mr F.'s Aunt. 'For, said he, to excuse himself, 'she is, I do assure you, the winegariest party.
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