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"You are the one that may have to pay by going to prison," replied the inspector. "Just try to arrest me, you poor fool, and I'll shoot your head off!" The police inspector jumped up from the table where he was seated, and, as he went out, he let one of the ballots fall. Caesar looked over the men who were with the police inspector; one of them was "Sparkler."
'Who's this? 'Not Amy and Edward without notice and without a carriage! said Mrs Sparkler. 'Look out. The room was dark, but the street was lighter, because of its lamps. Mr Sparkler's head peeping over the balcony looked so very bulky and heavy that it seemed on the point of overbalancing him and flattening the unknown below. 'It's one fellow, said Mr Sparkler.
The theatre being dark, and the box light, several visitors lounged in during the representation; in whom Fanny was so interested, and in conversation with whom she fell into such charming attitudes, as she had little confidences with them, and little disputes concerning the identity of people in distant boxes, that the wretched Sparkler hated all mankind.
Mr Tite Barnacle never would have passed for half his current value, unless his coat had been always buttoned-up to his white cravat. 'May I ask, said Lord Decimus, 'if Mr Darrit or Dorrit has any family? Nobody else replying, the host said, 'He has two daughters, my lord. 'Oh! you are acquainted with him? asked Lord Decimus. 'Mrs Merdle is. Mr Sparkler is, too.
"I hope not," said the phlegmatic Augustus; "repeaters will not tell well for your conversation, Ned! But, powers that be! look at this ring, a diamond of the first water!" "Oh, the sparkler! it makes one's mouth water as much as itself. 'Sdeath, here's a precious box for a sneezer, a picture inside, and rubies outside!
Mr Sparkler was so discomposed by the energy of this exclamation, accompanied with a flouncing up from the sofa and a flouncing down again, that a minute or two elapsed before he felt himself equal to saying in explanation: 'I mean, my dear, that everybody knows you are calculated to shine in society. 'Calculated to shine in society, retorted Fanny with great irritability; 'yes, indeed!
'Edmund, returned his wife, 'if you have nothing more becoming to do than to attempt to insult the woman who has honoured you with her hand, when she finds herself in adversity, I think YOU had better go to bed! Mr Sparkler was much afflicted by the charge, and offered a most tender and earnest apology.
The evening light lit up a jaunty spray of golden rod that she had wreathed in her wavy hair, and gave a glow to the rounded outlines of her handsome form. "There's a sparkler for you! And no saint, neither!" was Biah's comment. "That crittur has got more prances and capers in her than any three-year-old filly I knows on. He'll be cunning that ever gets a bridle on her."
Bar was sorry to miss our good friend Mr Sparkler to-day, Mr Merdle. 'He is away with Mrs Merdle, returned that gentleman, slowly coming out of a long abstraction, in the course of which he had been fitting a tablespoon up his sleeve. 'It is not indispensable for him to be on the spot. 'The magic name of Merdle, said Bar, with the jury droop, 'no doubt will suffice for all.
'Then, in fact, you have nothing more to say, Edmund; have you? inquired Fanny. 'So far from it, my adorable girl, answered Mr Sparkler, 'I apologise for having said so much. Mr Sparkler perceived, by a kind of inspiration, that the question implied had he not better go? He therefore withdrew the fraternal railing, and neatly said that he thought he would, with submission, take his leave.
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