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Updated: June 20, 2025
'If you ask me Why, said Mr Meagles, a little disturbed by the question, for he was far more intent on softening her case than the family's, 'I can only refer you to what I have just repeated as having been pretty near my words to Mother.
There, a great table in a great room was soon profusely covered with a superb repast; and the quarantine quarters became bare indeed, remembered among dainty dishes, southern fruits, cooled wines, flowers from Genoa, snow from the mountain tops, and all the colours of the rainbow flashing in the mirrors. 'But I bear those monotonous walls no ill-will now, said Mr Meagles.
It was not so difficult to believe, after the morning's experience, as Mr Meagles supposed. 'Don't stand there, Doyce, turning your spectacle-case over and over, cried Mr Meagles, 'but tell Mr Clennam what you confessed to me. 'I undoubtedly was made to feel, said the inventor, 'as if I had committed an offence.
'Think of something, next time; that's a dear fellow, said Mr Meagles. Pet laughingly believed he had been thinking of Miss Wade. 'Why of Miss Wade, Pet? asked her father. 'Why, indeed! said Arthur Clennam. Pet coloured a little, and went to the piano again.
'No doubt, no doubt, said Mr Meagles, with the caution belonging to the scales and scoop. 'But they will be a question of figures and accounts 'Just so, just so, said Mr Meagles, with arithmetical solidity belonging to the scales and scoop. And I shall be glad to enter into the subject, provided Mr Doyce responds, and you think well of it.
I myself always clearly foresaw the consequences, and am not surprised. And you must not be surprised. In fact, can't be surprised. Must have been prepared for it. Mr Meagles looked at his wife and at Clennam; bit his lip; and coughed.
There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune's, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O. Of these pictorial acquisitions Mr Meagles spoke in the usual manner.
Father and Mother Meagles sat with their daughter between them, the last three on one side of the table: on the opposite side sat Mr Clennam; a tall French gentleman with raven hair and beard, of a swart and terrible, not to say genteelly diabolical aspect, but who had shown himself the mildest of men; and a handsome young Englishwoman, travelling quite alone, who had a proud observant face, and had either withdrawn herself from the rest or been avoided by the rest nobody, herself excepted perhaps, could have quite decided which.
Miss Wade, said the girl, with her bosom swelling high, and speaking with her hand held to her throat, 'take me away! 'Tattycoram, said Mr Meagles. 'Once more yet! The only thing I ask of you in the world, my child! Count five-and-twenty!
'Mother, this is being backed in an idea! Mother, with a look which thanked Clennam in a manner very agreeable to him, answered that it was indeed. 'The fact is, besides, Arthur, said Mr Meagles, the old cloud coming over his face, 'that my son-in-law is already in debt again, and that I suppose I must clear him again.
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