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Let me tell you, Dan has done without 'em! 'What a load you take from my mind! cried Arthur. 'What happiness you give me! 'Happiness? retorted Mr Meagles. 'Don't talk about happiness till you see Dan. I assure you Dan is directing works and executing labours over yonder, that it would make your hair stand on end to look at. He's no public offender, bless you, now!
'Not without another effort, said Mr Meagles, stoutly. 'Tattycoram, my poor dear girl, count five-and-twenty. 'Do not reject the hope, the certainty, this kind man offers you, said Clennam in a low emphatic voice. 'Turn to the friends you have not forgotten. Think once more! 'I won't!
Clennam could not help speculating, as he seated himself in his room by the fire, whether there might be in the breast of this honest, affectionate, and cordial Mr Meagles, any microscopic portion of the mustard-seed that had sprung up into the great tree of the Circumlocution Office.
This place has taken my breath away, and I shall never get it back again until Arthur is out of this place. 'How is that a reason for going off again to-morrow morning? 'You shall understand, said Mr Meagles. 'To-night we three will put up at a City Hotel.
'Too much, ma'am? said Mr Meagles, as seeking an explanation. 'There, there! said Mrs Gowan, putting him in his inferior place with an expressive action of her hand. 'Too much for my poor fellow's mother to bear at this time of day. They are fast married, and can't be unmarried. There, there! I know that! You needn't tell me that, Papa Meagles. I know it very well. What was it I said just now?
Who? In acknowledgment of whose address, Mr Meagles murmured to himself that there was some sense about these Calais people, who really did know something of what you and themselves were up to; and returned, 'Miss Wade, my dear. He was then shown into the presence of Miss Wade. 'It's some time since we met, said Mr Meagles, clearing his throat; 'I hope you have been pretty well, Miss Wade?
"Whereas," says he, "Mr Clennam might now believe, if I entertained his proposition, that I had a sinister and designing motive in what was open free speech. Which I can't bear," says he, "which I really am too proud to bear." 'I should as soon suspect 'Of course you would, interrupted Mr Meagles, 'and so I told him. Well, Clennam.
The time being come for the renewal of his acquaintance with the Meagles family, Clennam, pursuant to contract made between himself and Mr Meagles within the precincts of Bleeding Heart Yard, turned his face on a certain Saturday towards Twickenham, where Mr Meagles had a cottage-residence of his own.
That it was a great comfort they continued happy. It is to be hoped they will still continue happy. It is to be hoped Pretty One will do everything she can to make my poor fellow happy, and keep him contented. Papa and Mama Meagles, we had better say no more about it. We never did look at this subject from the same side, and we never shall. There, there! Now I am good.
Still, with an unshaken confidence that the English tongue was somehow the mother tongue of the whole world, only the people were too stupid to know it, Mr Meagles harangued innkeepers in the most voluble manner, entered into loud explanations of the most complicated sort, and utterly renounced replies in the native language of the respondents, on the ground that they were 'all bosh. Sometimes interpreters were called in; whom Mr Meagles addressed in such idiomatic terms of speech, as instantly to extinguish and shut up which made the matter worse.
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