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'Let my sister know, if you please, Mrs Merdle, Fanny pouted, with a toss of her gauzy bonnet, 'that I had already had the honour of telling your son that I wished to have nothing whatever to say to him. 'Well, Miss Dorrit, assented Mrs Merdle, 'perhaps I might have mentioned that before.
If you have any doubt of my judgment, ask even Edmund Sparkler. The door of the room had opened, and Mrs Merdle now surveyed the head of her son through her glass. 'Edmund; we want you here. To whom, in a few easy words adapted to his capacity, Mrs Merdle stated the question at issue.
This great and fortunate man had provided that extensive bosom which required so much room to be unfeeling enough in, with a nest of crimson and gold some fifteen years before. It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon. Mr Merdle wanted something to hang jewels upon, and he bought it for the purpose.
Mrs Merdle also, as a leading lady rich in distinction, elegance, grace, and beauty, he mentioned in very laudatory terms.
'You know we may almost say we are related, sir, said Mr Merdle, curiously interested in the pattern of the carpet, 'and, therefore, you may consider me at your service. 'Ha. Very handsome, indeed! cried Mr Dorrit. 'Ha. Most handsome!
'I have not at present the intention, said Mr Dorrit, 'of ha exceeding a fortnight. 'That's a very short stay, after so long a journey, returned Mr Merdle. 'Hum. Yes, said Mr Dorrit. 'But the truth is ha my dear Mr Merdle, that I find a foreign life so well suited to my health and taste, that I hum have but two objects in my present visit to London.
Papa having always intended to go to town himself, in the spring, you see, if Edmund and I were married here, we might go off to Florence, where papa might join us, and we might all three travel home together. Mr Merdle has entreated Pa to stay with him in that same mansion I have mentioned, and I suppose he will.
He had been required to look over the title of a very considerable estate in one of the eastern counties lying, in fact, for Mr Merdle knew we lawyers loved to be particular, on the borders of two of the eastern counties.
Next day, and the day after, and every day, all graced by more dinner company, cards descended on Mr Dorrit like theatrical snow. As the friend and relative by marriage of the illustrious Merdle, Bar, Bishop, Treasury, Chorus, Everybody, wanted to make or improve Mr Dorrit's acquaintance.
'Thank you, said Mr Merdle; 'but if you have got one with a darker handle, I think I should prefer one with a darker handle. 'Tortoise-shell? 'Thank you, said Mr Merdle; 'yes. I think I should prefer tortoise-shell. Edmund accordingly received instructions to open the tortoise-shell box, and give Mr Merdle the tortoise-shell knife.
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