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Everywhere else, certainly, there is the note which I have called Calvinistic; especially in the predestined passion of Tattycoram or the incurable cruelty of Miss Wade. Even Little Dorrit herself had, we are told, one stain from her prison experience; and it is spoken of like a bodily stain; like something that cannot be washed away. There is no denying that this is Dickens's dark moment.
This is how you found us staring at the Nile, and the Pyramids, and the Sphinxes, and the Desert, and all the rest of it; and this is how Tattycoram will be a greater traveller in course of time than Captain Cook. 'I thank you, said the other, 'very heartily for your confidence. 'Don't mention it, returned Mr Meagles, 'I am sure you are quite welcome.
Why, Mother, look! Tattycoram! No other. And in Tattycoram's arms was an iron box some two feet square. Such a box had Affery Flintwinch seen, in the first of her dreams, going out of the old house in the dead of the night under Double's arm.
We presently heard this unfortunate Tattycoram loud and angry, and before we could ask what was the matter, Pet came back in a tremble, saying she was frightened of her. Close after her came Tattycoram in a flaming rage. "I hate you all three," says she, stamping her foot at us. "I am bursting with hate of the whole house." 'Upon which you ?
This, Tattycoram put on the ground at her old master's feet: this, Tattycoram fell on her knees by, and beat her hands upon, crying half in exultation and half in despair, half in laughter and half in tears, 'Pardon, dear Master; take me back, dear Mistress; here it is! 'Tatty! exclaimed Mr Meagles. 'What you wanted! said Tattycoram. 'Here it is! I was put in the next room not to see you.
Mr Meagles and his family, under these combined discouragements, had begun reluctantly to give up Tattycoram as irrecoverable, when the new and active firm of Doyce and Clennam, in their private capacities, went down on a Saturday to stay at the cottage until Monday. The senior partner took the coach, and the junior partner took his walking-stick.
'I? said Mr Meagles, with a plain good faith that might have commanded the belief of Mrs Gowan herself. 'I said, count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram. Mr Meagles again stroked his face and shook his head, with an air of profound regret. But she couldn't control herself to go any further. There she broke down, poor thing, and gave the other seventeen to the four winds. Then it all burst out.
It only holds two little people less than it ever did, Pet, and her poor unfortunate maid Tattycoram; but it seems empty now. Once out of it, there's no knowing when we may come back to it. No, Arthur, I'll be pulled through by Mother. They would do best by themselves perhaps, after all, Clennam thought; therefore did not press his proposal.
There were only five, at a round table, and it was very pleasant indeed. 'And Miss Wade, said Mr Meagles, after they had recalled a number of fellow-travellers. 'Has anybody seen Miss Wade? 'I have, said Tattycoram. She had brought a little mantle which her young mistress had sent for, and was bending over her, putting it on, when she lifted up her dark eyes and made this unexpected answer.
'I thought, said the other, 'that 'Tattycoram? suggested Mr Meagles again. 'Thank you that Tattycoram was a name; and I have several times wondered at the oddity of it. 'Why, the fact is, said Mr Meagles, 'Mrs Meagles and myself are, you see, practical people.
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