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Mr Sparkler having been in the Guards, and being in the habit of frequenting all the races, and all the lounges, and all the parties, and being well known, Society was satisfied with its son-in-law. This happy result Mr Merdle would have considered well attained, though Mr Sparkler had been a more expensive article. And he did not get Mr Sparkler by any means cheap for Society, even as it was.
'I can tell you what it is to me, said Gowan. 'Bread and cheese. One must eat! So come along, my Blandois. Mr Dorrit received them in the presence of his daughters and of Mr Sparkler, who happened, by some surprising accident, to be calling there. 'How are you, Sparkler? said Gowan carelessly. 'When you have to live by your mother wit, old boy, I hope you may get on better than I do.
The winter passing on towards the spring while this condition of affairs prevailed, it became necessary for Mr Sparkler to repair to England, and take his appointed part in the expression and direction of its genius, learning, commerce, spirit, and sense.
Here was poor Mr Sparkler, not knowing how to keep the peace between them, but humbly inclining to the opinion that they could do no better than agree that they were both remarkably fine women, and that there was no nonsense about either of them for which gentle recommendation they united in falling upon him frightfully.
However, I am glad you can contemplate such an escape, my dear, and I am glad that you can take this for the present with sufficient coolness to think of such a chance. It makes me hope that you may be able to bear the connection. I should not be able to bear it, and I should not try. I'd marry young Sparkler first. 'O, you would never marry him, Fanny, under any circumstances.
On the profits of his intrepidity, Mrs Sparkler and Mrs Merdle, inhabiting different floors of the genteel little temple of inconvenience to which the smell of the day before yesterday's soup and coach-horses was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals.
But being in company with the brother of a doosed fine gal well educated too with no biggodd nonsense about her at the period alluded to 'There! Never mind the sister, remarked Mrs Merdle, a little impatiently. 'What did the brother say? 'Didn't say a word, ma'am, answered Mr Sparkler. 'As silent a feller as myself. Equally hard up for a remark.
'I might refer that question to Mr Dorrit, said Mrs Merdle, turning the bosom towards that gentleman; 'Edmund having been so much indebted to him for rendering his stay agreeable. 'Oh, pray don't speak of it, returned Fanny. 'I believe Papa had the pleasure of inviting Mr Sparkler twice or thrice, but it was nothing.
And Young Sparkler at the door, inquiring who is within. By the merest accident, of course! In effect, the swain was standing up in his gondola, card-case in hand, affecting to put the question to a servant.
Pray remind me of them to-morrow. Little Dorrit was not without doubts how Mr Henry Gowan might take their patronage; but she promised not to fail in the reminder. 'Pray, does Mr Henry Gowan paint ha Portraits? inquired Mr Dorrit. Mr Sparkler opined that he painted anything, if he could get the job. 'He has no particular walk? said Mr Dorrit.
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