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It is quite understood that Mr Boffin is in no way committed on that point. Mr Boffin has merely to add, that he relies on Mr John Rokesmith's assurance that he will be faithful and serviceable. Mr John Rokesmith will please enter on his duties immediately." 'Well! Now, Noddy! cried Mrs Boffin, clapping her hands, 'That IS a good one!
'My gracious me! he exclaimed, invoking the Mincing Lane echoes as before. 'This is very extraordinary! 'What is, Pa? 'Why here's Mr Rokesmith now! 'No, no, Pa, no, cried Bella, greatly flurried. 'Surely not. 'Yes there is! Look here! Sooth to say, Mr Rokesmith not only passed the window, but came into the counting-house. 'I knew you would come to him, and I followed you, said Rokesmith.
Believe that they are not all mercenary, although I have, through a series of strange fatalities, faded out of my place in life. The latter are by far the stronger. 'I think I have noticed, Mr Rokesmith, said Bella, looking at him with curiosity, as not quite making him out, 'that you repress yourself, and force yourself, to act a passive part. 'You are right.
'It is not impossible, said Mr Boffin, addressing Alfred, 'that you have had some general idea, sir, of replacing Rokesmith, in course of time? 'It is not, assented Alfred, with a glittering smile and a great deal of nose, 'not impossible.
It is too plain to be denied. 'Are you disposed to deny it, Mr Rokesmith? asked Bella, with a look of wonder. 'Ought I not to be glad to do so, if I could: though it were only for my own sake? 'Truly, returned Bella, 'it must try you very much, and you must please promise me that you won't take ill what I am going to add, Mr Rokesmith? 'I promise it with all my heart.
'As to Rokesmith, that young man of mine, said Mr Boffin, dropping his voice and glancing towards the door with an apprehension of being overheard by some eavesdropper there, 'it's the same with him as with the footmen. I have found out that you must either scrunch them, or let them scrunch you.
So, they kissed him, and left him there, and old Betty was to come back early in the morning, and nobody but Rokesmith knew for certain how that the doctor had said, 'This should have been days ago. Too late!
And now, the church-porch having swallowed up Bella Wilfer for ever and ever, had it not in its power to relinquish that young woman, but slid into the happy sunlight, Mrs John Rokesmith instead. And long on the bright steps stood Gruff and Glum, looking after the pretty bride, with a narcotic consciousness of having dreamed a dream.
'Because, Mr Boffin explained, 'you must know that I'm not particularly well acquainted with Our Mutual Friend, for I have only seen him once. You give a good account of him. Is he at home? 'Mr Rokesmith is at home, said Mrs Wilfer; 'indeed, pointing through the window, 'there he stands at the garden gate. Waiting for you, perhaps? 'Perhaps so, replied Mr Boffin. 'Saw me come in, maybe.
What would the relief be to my feelings as a fellow-man if I wasn't the slave of truth, and didn't feel myself compelled to answer, Everything! See into what wonderful maudlin refuges, featherless ostriches plunge their heads! It is such unspeakable moral compensation to Wegg, to be overcome by the consideration that Mr Rokesmith has an underhanded mind!
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