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He picked the people up at Rome, I think? The phrase would have given nobody mortal offence. Clennam replied, 'Excuse me, I doubt if I understand your expression. 'Came upon them. Found them out. Stumbled UP against them. 'The people? 'Yes. The Miggles people. 'I really cannot say, said Clennam, 'where my friend Mr Meagles first presented Mr Henry Gowan to his daughter.
'Now that is so far, said Arthur, 'from being the case, that I know Mr Meagles to be unhappy in this matter; and to have interposed all reasonable obstacles with the hope of putting an end to it. Mrs Gowan shut up her great green fan, tapped him on the arm with it, and tapped her smiling lips. 'Why, of course, said she. 'Just what I mean.
She had already called Arthur Clennam to bear witness to this fable, as a friend of the Meagles family; and she followed up the move by now impounding the family itself for the same purpose. In the first interview she accorded to Mr Meagles, she slided herself into the position of disconsolately but gracefully yielding to irresistible pressure.
Perhaps because they kept the house separated in his mind, or perhaps because Mr Meagles and himself had twice agreed in passing, 'It is clear she don't live there, Clennam now proposed that they should go back and try that house before finally going away. Mr Meagles agreed, and back they went. They knocked once, and they rang once, without any response. 'Empty, said Mr Meagles, listening.
'Mrs Gowan is well, Henry? said Mrs Meagles. I couldn't very well get out of it, he explained, turning to the latter. 'The young fellow wrote to propose himself to me; and as he is well connected, I thought you would not object to my transferring him here. 'Who is the young fellow? asked Mr Meagles with peculiar complacency. 'He is one of the Barnacles.
Father and Mother Meagles never deserved their names better than when they took the headstrong foundling-girl into their protection again. 'Oh! I have been so wretched, cried Tattycoram, weeping much more, 'always so unhappy, and so repentant! I was afraid of her from the first time I saw her. I knew she had got a power over me through understanding what was bad in me so well.
He returned home one evening from an interview with her father, who had mentioned that she was out visiting which was what he always said when she was hard at work to buy his supper and found Mr Meagles in an excited state walking up and down his room. On his opening the door, Mr Meagles stopped, faced round, and said: 'Clennam! Tattycoram! 'What's the matter? 'Lost!
'Well! continued Mr Meagles in an apologetic way, 'I admit as a practical man, and I am sure Mother would admit as a practical woman, that we do, in families, magnify our troubles and make mountains of our molehills in a way that is calculated to be rather trying to people who look on to mere outsiders, you know, Clennam.
Truly, having by this time said everything she could say in maintenance of her wonderfully mythical position, and in admonition to Mr Meagles that he must not expect to bear his honours of alliance too cheaply, Mrs Gowan was disposed to forgo the rest.
She stood by the table so perfectly composed and still after this acknowledgment of his remark that Mr Meagles stared at her under a sort of fascination, and could not even look to Clennam to make another move. After waiting, awkwardly enough, for some moments, Arthur said: 'Perhaps it would be well if Mr Meagles could see her, Miss Wade? 'That is easily done, said she.
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