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The occupation he set himself was to visit these with all discretion and speed, and, in the event of finding anywhere that he had left a bill unpaid, and a box or parcel behind, to pay such bill, and bring away such box or parcel. With no other attendant than Mother, Mr Meagles went upon his pilgrimage, and encountered a number of adventures.
'And may I ask, ma'am, retorted Mr Meagles, a little heightened in colour, 'who does expect everything? 'Oh, nobody, nobody! said Mrs Gowan. 'I was going to say but you put me out. You interrupting Papa, what was I going to say?
Who could pass an evening in the house, and not love her for the grace and charm of her very presence in the room? This was Clennam's reflection, notwithstanding the final conclusion at which he had arrived up-stairs. In making it, he revoked. 'Why, what are you thinking of, my good sir? asked the astonished Mr Meagles, who was his partner. 'I beg your pardon. Nothing, returned Clennam.
'Now, as I came down to-day, I found that your friend, Mr Doyce, is looking for a partner in his business not a partner in his mechanical knowledge, but in the ways and means of turning the business arising from it to the best account. 'Just so, said Mr Meagles, with his hands in his pockets, and with the old business expression of face that had belonged to the scales and scoop.
In that particular, Britannia is a Britannia in the Manger won't give her children such distinctions herself, and won't allow them to be seen when they are given by other countries. No, no, Dan! said Mr Meagles, shaking his head again. 'That won't do here! 'Of course I know that, my good fellow, and therefore I come out with it in the first burst. Now, to go back, about catching Doyce.
He was so considerate as to lay no injunctions on his wife in that particular; but he mentioned to Mr Meagles that personally they did not appear to him to get on together, and that he thought it would be a good thing if politely, and without any scene, or anything of that sort they agreed that they were the best fellows in the world, but were best apart.
He spoke to a handsome girl with lustrous dark hair and eyes, and very neatly dressed, who replied with a half curtsey as she passed off in the train of Mrs Meagles and Pet. They crossed the bare scorched terrace all three together, and disappeared through a staring white archway.
When he had shown all his spoils, Mr Meagles took them into his own snug room overlooking the lawn, which was fitted up in part like a dressing-room and in part like an office, and in which, upon a kind of counter-desk, were a pair of brass scales for weighing gold, and a scoop for shovelling out money. 'Here they are, you see, said Mr Meagles.
'Thank you! murmured Clennam, 'thank you! And pressed his hand. 'Will you come in? said Mr Meagles, presently. 'In a little while. Mr Meagles fell away, and he was left alone. When he had walked on the river's brink in the peaceful moonlight for some half an hour, he put his hand in his breast and tenderly took out the handful of roses.
Now I am cooler. 'You have been ruffled, Mr Meagles. What is the matter? 'Wait a bit, and I'll tell you. Have you leisure for a turn in the Park? 'As much as you please. 'Come along then. Ah! you may well look at him. He happened to have turned his eyes towards the offender whom Mr Meagles had so angrily collared. 'He's something to look at, that fellow is.
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