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Updated: June 18, 2025
Father and Mother Meagles never deserved their names better than when they took the headstrong foundling-girl into their protection again. 'Oh! I have been so wretched, cried Tattycoram, weeping much more, 'always so unhappy, and so repentant! I was afraid of her from the first time I saw her. I knew she had got a power over me through understanding what was bad in me so well.
A doleful place to be born and bred in, Tattycoram? 'Yes indeed, sir! 'If she had constantly thought of herself, and settled with herself that everybody visited this place upon her, turned it against her, and cast it at her, she would have led an irritable and probably an useless existence.
Yet I have heard tell, Tattycoram, that her young life has been one of active resignation, goodness, and noble service. Shall I tell you what I consider those eyes of hers, that were here just now, to have always looked at, to get that expression? 'Yes, if you please, sir. 'Duty, Tattycoram.
Miss Wade, said the girl, with her bosom swelling high, and speaking with her hand held to her throat, 'take me away! 'Tattycoram, said Mr Meagles. 'Once more yet! The only thing I ask of you in the world, my child! Count five-and-twenty!
For I am not so bad as I was, pleaded Tattycoram; 'I am bad enough, but not so bad as I was, indeed. I have had Miss Wade before me all this time, as if it was my own self grown ripe turning everything the wrong way, and twisting all good into evil. I have had her before me all this time, finding no pleasure in anything but keeping me as miserable, suspicious, and tormenting as herself.
I did not think of her until I had pervaded the whole of our neighbourhood, and I don't know that I should have done so then but for finding Mother and Pet, when I went home, full of the idea that Tattycoram must have gone to her. Then, of course, I recalled what she said that day at dinner when you were first with US. 'Have you any idea where Miss Wade is to be found?
I'll only say that you have no profession to make to me or mine, and no forgiveness to entreat; and that all in the world that I ask you to do, is, to count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram. She looked at him for an instant, and then said frowningly, 'I won't. Miss Wade, take me away, please.
'Tatty! her young mistress exclaimed. 'You seen Miss Wade? where? 'Here, miss, said Tattycoram. 'How? An impatient glance from Tattycoram seemed, as Clennam saw it, to answer 'With my eyes! But her only answer in words was: 'I met her near the church. 'What was she doing there I wonder! said Mr Meagles. 'Not going to it, I should think. 'She had written to me first, said Tattycoram.
Poor Mr Meagles's inexpressible consternation in hearing his motives and actions so perverted, had prevented him from interposing any word until now; but now he regained the power of speech. 'Tattycoram, said he, 'for I'll call you by that name still, my good girl, conscious that I meant nothing but kindness when I gave it to you, and conscious that you know it
They took one silent turn backward and forward in the shade of the wall, getting, at the height on which the quarantine barracks are placed, what cool refreshment of sea breeze there was at seven in the morning. Mr Meagles's companion resumed the conversation. 'May I ask you, he said, 'what is the name of 'Tattycoram? Mr Meagles struck in. 'I have not the least idea.
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