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It is due to Mr Tigg to say that he had really risen with his opportunities; and, peculating on a grander scale, he had become a grander man altogether. 'Ha, ha, cried the secretary, laying his hand, with growing familiarity, upon the chairman's arm. 'When I look at you, and think of your property in Bengal being ha, ha, ha!
The board-room had a Turkey carpet in it, a sideboard, a portrait of Tigg Montague, Esquire, as chairman; a very imposing chair of office, garnished with an ivory hammer and a little hand-bell; and a long table, set out at intervals with sheets of blotting-paper, foolscap, clean pens, and inkstands.
'Obliged to two strangers for a tavern bill, eh! repeated Mr Slyme, after a sulky application to his glass. 'Very pretty! And crowds of impostors, the while, becoming famous; men who are no more on a level with me than Tigg, I take you to witness that I am the most persecuted hound on the face of the earth.
'If your debauchery, and that of your chosen friends, has really brought you to this level, returned the old man, 'keep it. You are living honestly, I hope, and that's something. 'Don't be hard upon my chosen friends, returned Slyme, 'for they were sometimes your chosen friends too. Don't say you never employed my friend Tigg, for I know better. We quarrelled upon it.
It is suggested that he showed America as full of rowdy bullies like Hannibal Chollop, or ridiculous wind-bags like Elijah Pogram, while England was full of refined and sincere spirits like Jonas Chuzzlewit, Chevy Slime, Montague Tigg, and Mr. Pecksniff. If Martin Chuzzlewit makes America a lunatic asylum, what in the world does it make England? We can only say a criminal lunatic asylum.
He changed his position in the chair, not for a less awkward, but for a more boastful attitude; and smiling in his miserable conceit rejoined: 'You an't a bad man of business, Mr Montague. You know how to set about it, I WILL say. 'Tut, tut, said Tigg, nodding confidentially, and showing his white teeth; 'we are not children, Mr Chuzzlewit; we are grown men, I hope.
He describes Bounderby and Gradgrind with a degree of grimness and sombre hatred very different from the half affectionate derision which he directed against the old tyrants or humbugs of the earlier nineteenth century the pompous Dedlock or the fatuous Nupkins, the grotesque Bumble or the inane Tigg. In those old books his very abuse was benignant; in Hard Times even his sympathy is hard.
'Yes, cried Tigg, 'when there was a very charming and delightful little family party, at which yourself and your respected father assisted. 'Well, never mind HIM, said Jonas. 'He's dead, and there's no help for it. 'Dead, is he! cried Tigg, 'Venerable old gentleman, is he dead! You're very like him.
'The long and the short of it is, what's the security? 'The paid-up capital, my dear sir, said Tigg, referring to some papers on the table, 'is, at this present moment 'Oh! I understand all about paid-up capitals, you know, said Jonas. 'You do? cried Tigg, stopping short. 'I should hope so. He turned the papers down again, and moving nearer to him, said in his ear: 'I know you do.
A general direction, I suppose, to Mr Pinch at Mr Pecksniff's will that find you? 'That'll find me, said Tom. 'You had better put Esquire to Mr Pecksniff's name, if you please. Direct to me, you know, at Seth Pecksniff's, Esquire. 'At Seth Pecksniff's, Esquire, repeated Mr Tigg, taking an exact note of it with a stump of pencil. 'We said this week, I believe?
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