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Speaking of being his banker, is it not curious, Pancks, that the ventures which run just now in so many people's heads, should run even in little Cavalletto's? 'Ventures? retorted Pancks, with a snort. 'What ventures? 'These Merdle enterprises. 'Oh! Investments, said Pancks. 'Ay, ay!
'A carpenter! repeated Mr Merdle, checking something like a groan. 'I shouldn't so much mind being a carpenter, Mrs Merdle. 'And my complaint is, pursued the lady, disregarding the low remark, 'that it is not the tone of Society, and that you ought to correct it, Mr Merdle.
It is a most provoking situation, a most absurd situation; but you know Mr Merdle, and are not surprised. Physician was not surprised, handed her into her carriage, and bade her Good Night. He stood for a moment at his own hall door, looking sedately at the elegant equipage as it rattled away. On his return up-stairs, the rest of the guests soon dispersed, and he was left alone.
Bar waved his double eye-glass three or four times between himself and the Bosom, as a rallying answer, and inquired in his most insinuating accents: 'What am I to call the most elegant, accomplished and charming of women, a few weeks, or it may be a few days, hence? 'Didn't your bird tell you what to call her? answered Mrs Merdle.
'Mr Merdle, observed Fanny, as a means of dismissing Mr Sparkler into the background, 'is quite a theme of Papa's, you must know, Mrs Merdle. 'I have been ha disappointed, madam, said Mr Dorrit, 'to understand from Mr Sparkler that there is no great hum probability of Mr Merdle's coming abroad. 'Why, indeed, said Mrs Merdle, 'he is so much engaged and in such request, that I fear not.
I found her, to my surprise, in many respects different from my expectations; and certainly in none more so, than in meeting me with what shall I say a sort of family assertion on her own part? Mrs Merdle smiled.
Mr Sparkler said, or rather twitched out of himself in small pieces by the shirt-collar, that Mrs Merdle having completely used up her place in the country, and also her house at Brighton, and being, of course, unable, don't you see, to remain in London when there wasn't a soul there, and not feeling herself this year quite up to visiting about at people's places, had resolved to have a touch at Rome, where a woman like herself, with a proverbially fine appearance, and with no nonsense about her, couldn't fail to be a great acquisition.
Mr Pancks was then hospitably pressed into Happy Cottage, where he encountered the elder Master Plornish just come home from school. Examining that young student, lightly, on the educational proceedings of the day, he found that the more advanced pupils who were in the large text and the letter M, had been set the copy 'Merdle, Millions.
But he had no greater will of his own than a boat has when it is towed by a steam-ship; and he followed his cruel mistress through rough and smooth, on equally strong compulsion. Mrs Merdle, during these passages, said little to Fanny, but said more about her.
'Somebody said something, returned Mrs Merdle. 'Never mind who it was. 'But tell us what it was.
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