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Rigaud Lagnier Blandois, my amiable subject, you will get your money. You will enrich yourself. You have lived a gentleman; you will die a gentleman. You triumph, my little boy; but it is your character to triumph. Whoof! In the hour of his triumph, his moustache went up and his nose came down, as he ogled a great beam over his head with particular satisfaction. Closed
Being in London for a short time on affairs connected with ha my estate, and hearing of this strange disappearance, I wished to make myself acquainted with the circumstances at first-hand, because there is ha hum an English gentleman in Italy whom I shall no doubt see on my return, who has been in habits of close and daily intimacy with Monsieur Blandois. Mr Henry Gowan. You may know the name.
Swagger and an air of authorised condescension do so much, that Mr Flintwinch had already begun to think this a highly gentlemanly personage. Not the less unyielding with him on that account, he scraped his chin and said, what could he have the honour of doing for Mr Blandois to-night, out of business hours?
'MY name is Blandois. 'Blandois. I don't know it, said Jeremiah. 'I thought it possible, resumed the other, 'that you might have been advised from Paris 'We have had no advice from Paris respecting anybody of the name of Blandois, said Jeremiah. 'No? 'No. Jeremiah stood in his favourite attitude.
From the days of their honeymoon, Minnie Gowan felt sensible of being usually regarded as the wife of a man who had made a descent in marrying her, but whose chivalrous love for her had cancelled that inequality. To Venice they had been accompanied by Monsieur Blandois of Paris, and at Venice Monsieur Blandois of Paris was very much in the society of Gowan.
Both being finished, he shook himself into a sitting attitude; and with the concluding serious apostrophe, 'Hold, then! Blandois, you ingenious one, have all your wits about you! arose and went back to the house of Clennam and Co.
Moreover, he had the appearance of a perfect ability to go on all night; or, if occasion were, all next day and all next night; whereas Mr Blandois soon grew indistinctly conscious of swaggering too fiercely and boastfully. He therefore terminated the entertainment at the end of the third bottle. 'You will draw upon us to-morrow, sir, said Mr Flintwinch, with a business-like face at parting.
'I have a strong presentiment that we shall become intimately acquainted. You have no feeling of that sort yet? 'Not yet, said Mr Flintwinch. Mr Blandois, taking him by both shoulders again, rolled him about a little in his former merry way, then drew his arm through his own, and invited him to come off and drink a bottle of wine like a dear deep old dog as he was.
'By putting an upstart's hire in his pocket? said Gowan, frowning. 'Do you mean that? Tell your other friend to get his head painted for the sign of some public-house, and to get it done by a sign-painter. Who am I, and who is he? 'Professore, returned the ambassador, 'and who is Blandois? Without appearing at all interested in the latter question, Gowan angrily whistled Mr Dorrit away.
Mr Blandois, I suspect, is not of a pious cast. 'On the contrary, sir! that gentleman protested, snapping his fingers. 'Your pardon! It's a part of my character. I am sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative. A sensitive, ardent, conscientious, and imaginative man, Mr Flintwinch, must be that, or nothing!
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