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What cared he, then, for Spenlow and Jawkins? "I am astonished, Mr. Spenlow," said a young clerk of the new régime, "that you should have made such a mistake!" Mr. Spenlow, in turn, was too much astonished to utter a word.
I don't think I was much astonished. To the best of my judgement, no capacity of astonishment was left in me. There was nothing worth mentioning in the material world, but Dora Spenlow, to be astonished about. I said, 'How do you do, Miss Murdstone? I hope you are well. She answered, 'Very well. I said, 'How is Mr. Murdstone? She replied, 'My brother is robust, I am obliged to you. Mr.
Spenlow and Mr. jorkins, as to which of them really was the objecting partner; but I saw with sufficient clearness that there was obduracy somewhere in the firm, and that the recovery of my aunt's thousand pounds was out of the question.
We went into the house, which was cheerfully lighted up, and into a hall where there were all sorts of hats, caps, great-coats, plaids, gloves, whips, and walking-sticks. 'Where is Miss Dora? said Mr. Spenlow to the servant. 'Dora! I thought. 'What a beautiful name! Copperfield, my daughter Dora, and my daughter Dora's confidential friend! It was, no doubt, Mr.
'You are out early, Miss Spenlow, said I. 'It's so stupid at home, she replied, 'and Miss Murdstone is so absurd! She talks such nonsense about its being necessary for the day to be aired, before I come out. So I told papa last night I must come out. Besides, it's the brightest time of the whole day. Don't you think so?
Miss Murdstone, by an expressive sound, a long drawn respiration, which was neither a sigh nor a moan, but was like both, gave it as her opinion that he should have done this at first. 'I must try, said Mr. Spenlow, confirmed by this support, 'my influence with my daughter. Do you decline to take those letters, Mr. Copperfield? For I had laid them on the table. Yes.
Spenlow seemed to think, if he thought anything about the matter, that my aunt was the leader of the state party in our family, and that there was a rebel party commanded by somebody else so I gathered at least from what he said, while we were waiting for Mr. Tiffey to make out Peggotty's bill of costs.
Spenlow, 'having experience of what we see, in the Commons here, every day, of the various unaccountable and negligent proceedings of men, in respect of their testamentary arrangements of all subjects, the one on which perhaps the strangest revelations of human inconsistency are to be met with but that mine are made? I inclined my head in acquiescence. 'I should not allow, said Mr.
Spenlow ate entirely off plate and china; and another hinted at champagne being constantly on draught, after the usual custom of table-beer. The old clerk with the wig, whose name was Mr. Tiffey, had been down on business several times in the course of his career, and had on each occasion penetrated to the breakfast-parlour.
That gentle creature, after a moment's thoughtful survey of the carpet, delivered herself with much dry unction as follows. 'I must confess to having entertained my suspicions of Miss Spenlow, in reference to David Copperfield, for some time. I observed Miss Spenlow and David Copperfield, when they first met; and the impression made upon me then was not agreeable.
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