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'It always takes away any pleasure I may have had in this inquiry even to make it known to you. 'A most invaluable constitution, Tigg retorted. 'A great gift for a gentleman employed as you are, Mr Nadgett. Much better than discretion; though you possess that quality also in an eminent degree. I think I heard a double knock.
The business in hand thus easily settled, Mr Pinch and Martin would have withdrawn immediately, but for the urgent entreaties of Mr Tigg that they would allow him the honour of presenting them to his friend Slyme, which were so very difficult of resistance that, yielding partly to these persuasions and partly to their own curiosity, they suffered themselves to be ushered into the presence of that distinguished gentleman.
Will it so much as put that delightful coin, a golden sovereign, in the pocket of his nether garments? No, Tigg is no informer; a man who has charged at the head of his regiment on the coast of Africa is no vulgar spy. There is more to be got by making the Count pay through the nose, as we say; chanter, as the French say; "sing a song of sixpence" to a golden tune.
The least of their stories had a colonel in it; lords were as plentiful as oaths; and even the Blood Royal ran in the muddy channel of their personal recollections. 'Mr Chuzzlewit didn't know him, I'm afraid, said Wolf, in reference to a certain personage of illustrious descent, who had previously figured in a reminiscence. 'No, said Tigg.
Now, de ye take, Mister Tigg?" "Troth do I. But dev ye think yez can fool thim so aizy?" "Easy as eatin' punkin-pie. Jehosophet! I hain't been five year in the tradin' line 'ithout lernin' the bizness, I recking." "Be me faith! yez must have been raal cliver at it, whin ye sowld them cypress-knees for bacon-hams to the Bawltemoreans. You remimber that story yez towld us down in Mixico?"
'Heyday! asked Martin, starting at the mention of a name he knew. 'Pray, what does he want with me? 'If your name is Pinch' Mr Tigg began. 'It is not' said Martin, checking himself. 'That is Mr Pinch.
'As for my part in the same, said Mr Tigg, 'don't mention it. Don't compliment me, for I can't bear it! 'I have no such intention, I assure you, retorted Martin, releasing his arm and stopping. 'You oblige me very much' said Mr Tigg. 'Thank you. 'Now, sir, observed Martin, biting his lip, 'this is a large town, and we can easily find different ways in it.
'And dreams, said Tigg, 'and cries out in an ugly manner; and when the candle burns down in the night, is in an agony; and all that sort of thing. I see! They were silent for a little time. Then Jonas spoke: 'Now we've done with child's talk, I want to have a word with you. I want to have a word with you before we meet up yonder to-day. I am not satisfied with the state of affairs.
Besides; how, Mr Tigg, continued Pecksniff even more gravely and impressively than he had spoken yet, 'how could Mr Chuzzlewit be prevented from having these peculiar and most extraordinary confidences of which you speak; the existence of which I must admit; and which I cannot but deplore for his sake?
Consider, my good sir and here Mr Pecksniff eyed him wistfully 'how very much at random you are talking. 'Why, as to that, rejoined Tigg, 'it certainly is a difficult question. 'Undoubtedly it is a difficult question, Mr Pecksniff answered. As he spoke he drew himself aloft, and seemed to grow more mindful, suddenly, of the moral gulf between himself and the creature he addressed.
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