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'You do right, child, said Miss Abbey, 'to speak well of those who deserve well of you. 'Right or wrong, muttered Miss Wren, inaudibly, with a visible hitch of her chin, 'I mean to do it, and you may make up your mind to THAT, old lady. 'Here is the paper, madam, said the Jew, delivering into Miss Potterson's hands the original document drawn up by Rokesmith, and signed by Riderhood.
Ah! what a different life the late John Harmon's, if it had been his happy privilege to take his place upon that ottoman, and draw his arm about that waist, and say, 'I hope the time has been long without me? What a Home Goddess you look, my darling! But, the present John Rokesmith, far removed from the late John Harmon, remained standing at a distance.
I have never been in the streets with one of them. 'Heard me talked of among 'em, though? 'No. I occupy my own rooms, and have held scarcely any communication with them. 'Odder and odder! said Mr Boffin. 'Well, sir, to tell you the truth, I don't know what to say to you. 'Say nothing, returned Mr Rokesmith; 'allow me to call on you in a few days.
But, Rokesmith knowing it, and knowing that his bearing it in mind would be acceptable thereafter to that good woman who had been the only light in the childhood of desolate John Harmon dead and gone, resolved that late at night he would go back to the bedside of John Harmon's namesake, and see how it fared with him.
'Old lady, said her husband, but without harshness, 'if you cut in when requested not, I'll get a pillow and carry you out of the room upon it. What do you want to say, you Rokesmith? 'To you, Mr Boffin, nothing. But to Miss Wilfer and to your good kind wife, a word. 'Out with it then, replied Mr Boffin, 'and cut it short, for we've had enough of you.
And as she had never been sparing of complaints of her old home when she had no other to compare it with, so there was no novelty of ingratitude or disdain in her very much preferring her new one. 'An invaluable man is Rokesmith, said Mr Boffin, after some two or three months. 'But I can't quite make him out. Neither could Bella, so she found the subject rather interesting.
'I say, repeated Mrs Wilfer, with a vast access of grandeur, 'that I am NOT going to interpose objections. 'You use the word, ma'am, I have myself used, said Rokesmith, with a glance at Bella, 'when you speak of Miss Wilfer's attractions there. 'Pardon me, returned Mrs Wilfer, with dreadful solemnity, 'but I had not finished. 'Pray excuse me.
And John Rokesmith not only came in, but he caught Bella in his arms, and she was content to leave her head on his breast as if that were her head's chosen and lasting resting place. "I knew you would come to him, and I followed you," said Rokesmith. "You are mine." "Yes, I am yours if you think me worth taking," Bella responded.
It becoming necessary, upon this, to send him to bed again and hold him in waiting to be lanced again, Bella did it. But not half as well on the second occasion as on the first; for, a twice-told white one seems almost to become a black one, when you are not used to it. 'Oh DEAR! said Mrs Milvey, 'I am SO sorry! Mr Rokesmith took SUCH an interest in Lizzie Hexam, when we were there before.
Don't be alarmed, Bella my dear. I'll see you righted. 'See me righted? thought Bella. And then repeated aloud in a tone of astonishment: 'see me righted, sir? 'Ay, ay! said Mr Boffin. 'See you righted. Send Mr Rokesmith here, you sir.
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