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'And to think of Doyce and Clennam, and who Doyce can be, said Flora; 'delightful man no doubt and married perhaps or perhaps a daughter, now has he really? then one understands the partnership and sees it all, don't tell me anything about it for I know I have no claim to ask the question the golden chain that once was forged being snapped and very proper.
'One last remark, resumed Flora, 'I was going to say I wish to make one last explanation I wish to offer, Mr F.'s Aunt and myself would not have intruded on business hours Mr F. having been in business and though the wine trade still business is equally business call it what you will and business habits are just the same as witness Mr F. himself who had his slippers always on the mat at ten minutes before six in the afternoon and his boots inside the fender at ten minutes before eight in the morning to the moment in all weathers light or dark would not therefore have intruded without a motive which being kindly meant it may be hoped will be kindly taken Arthur, Mr Clennam far more proper, even Doyce and Clennam probably more business-like.
'I must not make a martyr of myself, when I am one of so large a company. 'Relinquish it, or begin it all over again? mused Clennam. 'That was exactly the long and the short of it, said Doyce. 'Then, my friend, cried Clennam, starting up and taking his work-roughened hand, 'it shall be begun all over again! Doyce looked alarmed, and replied in a hurry for him, 'No, no. Better put it by.
That what the Barnacles had to do, was to stick on to the national ship as long as they could. That to trim the ship, lighten the ship, clean the ship, would be to knock them off; that they could but be knocked off once; and that if the ship went down with them yet sticking to it, that was the ship's look out, and not theirs. 'There! said Mr Meagles, 'now you know all about Doyce.
The fact is, I was here came straight to you from the Allongers and Marshongers, or I should be ashamed to look you in the face this day, but you were not in company trim at the moment, and I had to start off again to catch Doyce. 'Poor Doyce! sighed Arthur. 'Don't call him names that he don't deserve, said Mr Meagles. 'He's not poor; he's doing well enough.
Say, Doyce " "Hush, Dodo! Mr. Dalton is talking, and you must be quiet. Shall I hold you?" "No, no, I don't want to be church-'till. I want to womp." "Well, go and 'womp' then, bless you! And be quick about it." "But I wants to eat first." "Talk fast, Mr. Dalton. She is pouting now, and you may get in a sentence or two." He met her merry look with a very kindly one.
'Good luck to you, Mr Doyce! said one of the number.
At length he said: 'Doyce, it came to this at last that the business was to be sunk with Heaven knows how many more wrecks, or begun all over again? 'Yes, returned Doyce, 'that's what the noblemen and gentlemen made of it after a dozen years. 'And pretty fellows too! said Clennam, bitterly. 'The usual thing! observed Doyce.
I don't think I have any other. I dare say I entertain that prejudice, only because I have never given my mind fully to the subject. 'But you shouldn't call it a prejudice, said Clennam. 'My dear Doyce, it is the soundest sense. 'I am glad you think so, returned Doyce, with his grey eye looking kind and bright.
In the beginning of this dialogue, Clennam had expected some great harmless outburst from Mr Meagles, like that which had made him burst out of the Circumlocution Office, holding Doyce by the collar. But his good friend had a weakness which none of us need go into the next street to find, and which no amount of Circumlocution experience could long subdue in him.
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