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But he had two consolations at the close of the performance. She gave him her fan to hold while she adjusted her cloak, and it was his blessed privilege to give her his arm down-stairs again. These crumbs of encouragement, Mr Sparkler thought, would just keep him going; and it is not impossible that Miss Dorrit thought so too.
She was, as it were, forced to look at her through her eye-glass, and in general conversation to allow commendations of her beauty to be wrung from her by its irresistible demands. It might have been about a month or six weeks after the night of the new advice, when Little Dorrit began to think she detected some new understanding between Mr Sparkler and Fanny.
He rose slowly from the deep chair, stretched himself, and settled his hat firmly on his head. "What's this I hear about a wonderful ruby your wife wore up to Gwynne's the other night? Gosh! I'd like to see a sparkler like that." "Why, by all means." Ruyler swung the bookcase outward, opened the safe and handed him the ruby.
Thus the innermost, "the Star of Mercury," is called Stilbon, "the Sparkler," Mars, Pyroeis, "the Fiery One," while Jupiter, the planet of the slowest course but one, is designated as Phaeton, and Saturn, the tardiest of all, Phaenon.
When Mr Sparkler was admitted to this closing audience, Mr Merdle came creeping in with not much more appearance of arms in his sleeves than if he had been the twin brother of Miss Biffin, and insisted on escorting Mr Dorrit down-stairs.
It is the secret of success, Flopsie be a sparkler and you've got everything before you." Louise Renaud looked across at him half-defiantly. Her prim, cruel mouth hardened into a tight line. "To spark-el?" she said "that is what we call etinceler eclater. Yes, I comprehend! Miladi is one spark-el! But one must be a very good jewel to spark-el always yes yes not a sham!"
However, as Miss Fanny called out with much concern, Was the gentleman hurt, Mr Sparkler rose more restored than might have been expected, and stammered for himself with blushes, 'Not at all so. Miss Fanny had no recollection of having ever seen him before, and was passing on, with a distant inclination of her head, when he announced himself by name.
'If Bout, Edmund, returned Mrs Sparkler, 'is the slang term for indisposition, he has. If it is not, I am unable to give an opinion on the barbarous language you address to Edward's sister.
The eye that outshone the diamond's brilliancy, and glanced its lovely lightning into the most guarded heart alas! where is it? Where shall we find the rolling sparkler? How are all its sprightly beams eclipsed! The tongue, flesh, &c., are dwelt upon in the same fashion. It is hard to believe that this was really considered fine writing by our ancestors, but the fact is indisputable.
'And Edmund Sparkler will tell you, I dare say, said Mrs Merdle, waving her favourite hand towards her husband, 'how he has heard it noticed. 'I couldn't, said Mr Sparkler, after feeling his pulse as before, 'couldn't undertake to say what led to it 'cause memory desperate loose.
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