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I have it in charge from Mr Boffin to discover, and I am very desirous for myself to discover, whether that retracted accusation still leaves any stain upon her. I mean whether it places her at any disadvantage towards any one, even towards herself. 'Yes, said Bella, nodding thoughtfully; 'I understand. That seems wise, and considerate.
With a much-perplexed face, Riderhood looked from it to the sleeper, and from the sleeper to it, and finally crept back to his chair, and there, with his hand to his chin, sat long in a brown study, looking at both. Mr and Mrs Lammle had come to breakfast with Mr and Mrs Boffin.
They were not absolutely uninvited, but had pressed themselves with so much urgency on the golden couple, that evasion of the honour and pleasure of their company would have been difficult, if desired. They were in a charming state of mind, were Mr and Mrs Lammle, and almost as fond of Mr and Mrs Boffin as of one another.
This brings up a confabulation regarding the certain fair young person; when Noddy he gives it as his opinion that she is a deary creetur. "She may be a leetle spoilt, and nat'rally spoilt," he says, "by circumstances, but that's only the surface, and I lay my life," he says, "that she's the true golden gold at heart." 'So did you, said Mr Boffin.
'But YOU once depreciated ME, sir, thought Bella, pouting, 'and I hope you may be satisfied with the consequences you brought upon your head! However, she said nothing to that purpose; she even said something to a different purpose. 'Mr Rokesmith, it seems so long since we spoke together naturally, that I am embarrassed in approaching another subject. Mr Boffin.
'Mr Harmon, said Bradley: who would have been a great deal more at a loss than he was, if he had known to whom he spoke: 'was murdered and found in the river. 'Was murdered and found in the river. 'It was not 'No, interposed the Secretary, smiling, 'it was not he who recommended you. Mr Boffin heard of you through a certain Mr Lightwood. I think you know Mr Lightwood, or know of him?
'There was likewise, resumed Wegg, 'a pair of trestles, for which alone a Irish person, who was deemed a judge of trestles, offered five and six a sum I would not hear of, for I should have lost by it and there was a stool, a umbrella, a clothes-horse, and a tray. But I leave it to you, Mr Boffin.
'You have no instructions to give me, Mr Boffin, in reference to this place? 'Not any, Rokesmith. No. 'Might I ask, without seeming impertinent, whether you have any intention of selling it? 'Certainly not. In remembrance of our old master, our old master's children, and our old service, me and Mrs Boffin mean to keep it up as it stands.
'And I consider that the poetry brings us both in, in a beautiful manner. The effect of the poem on the Secretary being evidently to astonish him, Mr Boffin was confirmed in his high opinion of it, and was greatly pleased. 'Now, you see, Rokesmith, he went on, 'a literary man WITH a wooden leg is liable to jealousy.
Stay where you are, and all's well, and all's as it was to be. Go away, and you can never come back. 'I know that I can never come back, and that's what I mean, said Bella. 'You mustn't expect, Mr Boffin pursued, 'that I'm a-going to settle money on you, if you leave us like this, because I am not. No, Bella! Be careful! Not one brass farthing. 'Expect! said Bella, haughtily.
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