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Updated: May 26, 2025
Was it not enough that you should descend to mark down each incautious look to chronicle every heedless word to draw dark deductions from the unsuspecting confidence of my father's friend to lie in wait to hang with a foe's malignity upon the unbendings of familiar intercourse to extort anger from gentleness itself, that you might wrest the anger into crime!
Was it not enough that you should descend to mark down each incautious look to chronicle every heedless word to draw dark deductions from the unsuspecting confidence of my father's friend to lie in wait to hang with a foe's malignity upon the unbendings of familiar intercourse to extort anger from gentleness itself, that you might wrest the anger into crime!
It was on this lady, then, that Mr Swiveller burst in full freshness as something new and hitherto undreamed of, lighting up the office with scraps of song and merriment, conjuring with inkstands and boxes of wafers, catching three oranges in one hand, balancing stools upon his chin and penknives on his nose, and constantly performing a hundred other feats with equal ingenuity; for with such unbendings did Richard, in Mr Brass's absence, relieve the tedium of his confinement.
This, however, did not prevent him from indulging in occasional, not to say frequent, unbendings of disposition, which he condescended to exhibit by way of encouragement to his small protege; but these unbendings and confidences were always more or less shrouded in mystery. Many of them, indeed, consisted of nothing more intelligible than nods, grins, and winks.
Occasionally, too, as if his spirits carried him away on his restoration to warmer latitudes, he would indulge in one of his old skylarking bouts with the crew, and even made advances to Pompey in his caboose, which that worthy, in spite of his indignation at the manner in which he had been treated by Jocko when he assumed the dignity of the toga virilis, was only too glad to welcome and reciprocate; but, after one of these unusual unbendings, the monkey grew even more dignified and inapproachable than before, except to Tom and myself, who could do anything with him, and he then confined himself exclusively to the cabin and quarter-deck.
In charming relief to the sequel of this tragic incident of the bereavement of the Peggottys, came David's love passages with Dora, and his social unbendings with Mr. Micawber.
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