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Updated: June 12, 2025
When it came to Bella's turn to sign her name, Mr Rokesmith, who was standing, as he had sat, with a hesitating hand upon the table, looked at her stealthily, but narrowly. He looked at the pretty figure bending down over the paper and saying, 'Where am I to go, pa?
But that heroine briefly suggesting 'Bedtime' instead, the bottles were put away, and the family retired; she cherubically escorted, like some severe saint in a painting, or merely human matron allegorically treated. 'And by this time to-morrow, said Lavinia when the two girls were alone in their room, 'we shall have Mr Rokesmith here, and shall be expecting to have our throats cut.
'You DID, sir, at any rate, returned Bella. 'I took the liberty of reminding you of a little omission into which you had fallen insensibly and naturally fallen. It was no more than that. 'And I beg leave to ask you, Mr Rokesmith, said Bella, 'why you took that liberty? I hope there is no offence in the phrase; it is your own, remember.
'And I tell you, my deary, said Mrs Boffin, 'that if you don't close with Mr Rokesmith now at once, and if you ever go a muddling yourself again with things never meant nor made for you, you'll have an apoplexy besides iron-moulding your linen and you'll break my heart.
Were they expected at Greenwich? Probably. Probably. At least, Mr John Rokesmith seemed perfectly satisfied when he descried them on board. Probably.
But though John Harmon or Rokesmith was never intended to be merely a man of mystery, it is not quite so easy to say what he was intended to be. Bella is a possible and pretty sketch. Mrs. Wilfer, her mother, is an entirely impossible and entirely delightful one.
'And I consider that the poetry brings us both in, in a beautiful manner. The effect of the poem on the Secretary being evidently to astonish him, Mr Boffin was confirmed in his high opinion of it, and was greatly pleased. 'Now, you see, Rokesmith, he went on, 'a literary man WITH a wooden leg is liable to jealousy.
Ask him to come in. Mr Rokesmith appeared. 'Sit down, sir, said Mr Boffin, shaking hands with him. 'Mrs Boffin you're already acquainted with. Well, sir, I am rather unprepared to see you, for, to tell you the truth, I've been so busy with one thing and another, that I've not had time to turn your offer over.
At least I I am not setting up my own poor opinion, you know, Mr Rokesmith, said Bella, excusing and explaining herself in a pretty shy way; 'I am consulting you. 'I noticed that sadness. I hope it may not, said the Secretary in a lower voice, 'be the result of the false accusation which has been retracted.
Being both bad sailors, we should want a Steward if we did; but there's generally one provided. Mr Rokesmith again explained; defining the duties he sought to undertake, as those of general superintendent, or manager, or overlooker, or man of business. 'Now, for instance come! said Mr Boffin, in his pouncing way. 'If you entered my employment, what would you do?
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