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'He dined in town yesterday, and drove down in the phaeton by himself, said Tiffey, 'having sent his own groom home by the coach, as he sometimes did, you know 'Well? 'The phaeton went home without him. The horses stopped at the stable-gate. The man went out with a lantern. Nobody in the carriage. 'Had they run away?
I arrived at the office so soon, after all, that I had half an hour's loitering about the Commons, before old Tiffey, who was always first, appeared with his key. Then I sat down in my shady corner, looking up at the sunlight on the opposite chimney-pots, and thinking about Dora; until Mr. Spenlow came in, crisp and curly. 'How are you, Copperfield? said he. 'Fine morning!
As he said this with a gentle melancholy, which was the next thing to making no charge at all, I expressed my acknowledgements on Peggotty's behalf, and paid Tiffey in banknotes. Peggotty then retired to her lodging, and 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.
There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining. This was at the expiration of about six weeks.
Old Tiffey, for the first time in his life I should think, was sitting on somebody else's stool, and had not hung up his hat. 'This is a dreadful calamity, Mr. Copperfield, said he, as I entered. 'What is? I exclaimed. 'What's the matter? 'Don't you know? cried Tiffey, and all the rest of them, coming round me. 'No! said I, looking from face to face. 'Mr. Spenlow, said Tiffey.
Mr. jorkins, who had been at Norwood since the occurrence, came to the office a few days afterwards. He and Tiffey were closeted together for some few moments, and then Tiffey looked out at the door and beckoned me in. 'Oh! said Mr. jorkins. 'Mr. Tiffey and myself, Mr.
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