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Updated: June 2, 2025
I says to father then, I says to him, "Father, you are right!" That, Mrs Plornish concluded, with the air of a very precise legal witness, 'is what passed betwixt father and me. And I tell you nothing but what did pass betwixt me and father.
They might have chosen broken English of other sorts that, for example, which was once thought amusing in farce, as spoken by the Frenchman conceived by the Englishman a complication of humour fictitious enough, one might think, to please anyone; or else a fragment of negro dialect; or the style of telegrams; or the masterly adaptation of the simple savage's English devised by Mrs Plornish in her intercourse with the Italian.
That gentleman's ed would come up-ards when his turn come, that gentleman's air would be a pleasure to look upon being all smooth again, and wery well then! It has been already stated that Mrs Plornish, not being philosophical, wept. It further happened that Mrs Plornish, not being philosophical, was intelligible.
'Without admiring him for that, Clennam quietly observed, 'I am very sorry for him. The remark appeared to suggest to Plornish, for the first time, that it might not be a very fine trait of character after all. He pondered about it for a moment, and gave it up. 'As to me, he resumed, 'certainly Mr Dorrit is as affable with me, I am sure, as I can possibly expect.
Mrs Plornish was proud of the title Padrona, which she regarded as signifying: not so much Mistress of the house, as Mistress of the Italian tongue. She immediately complied with Mr Baptist's request, and they all went into the cottage. 'E ope you no fright, said Mrs Plornish then, interpreting Mr Pancks in a new way with her usual fertility of resource. 'What appen? Peaka Padrona!
Long in the legs, yielding at the knees, foolish in the face, flannel-jacketed, lime-whitened. 'This is Plornish, sir. 'I came, said Clennam, rising, 'to beg the favour of a little conversation with you on the subject of the Dorrit family. Plornish became suspicious. Seemed to scent a creditor. Said, 'Ah, yes. Well.
As there truly was no reason why he should have the least interest in it, Arthur Clennam went on to the present purport of his visit; namely, to make Plornish the instrument of effecting Tip's release, with as little detriment as possible to the self-reliance and self-helpfulness of the young man, supposing him to possess any remnant of those qualities: without doubt a very wide stretch of supposition.
You never heard father in such voice as he is at present, said Mrs Plornish, her own voice quavering, she was so proud and pleased. 'He gave us Strephon last night to that degree that Plornish gets up and makes him this speech across the table. "John Edward Nandy," says Plornish to father, "I never heard you come the warbles as I have heard you come the warbles this night."
'Don't name it, sir, returned Plornish, 'it'll be ekally a pleasure an a it'l be ekally a pleasure and a Finding himself unable to balance his sentence after two efforts, Mr Plornish wisely dropped it. He took Clennam's card and appropriate pecuniary compliment. He was earnest to finish his commission at once, and his Principal was in the same mind.
Even Mrs Plornish herself began to think that she had a natural call towards that language.
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