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That
is
to
say
,
it
may
be
supposed
that
he
got
all
he
wanted
,
otherwise
with
unlimited
wealth
he
would
have
got
it
.
But
his
desire
was
to
the
utmost
to
satisfy
Society
(
whatever
that
was
)
,
and
take
up
all
its
drafts
upon
him
for
tribute
.
He
did
not
shine
in
company
;
he
had
not
very
much
to
say
for
himself
;
he
was
a
reserved
man
,
with
a
broad
,
overhanging
,
watchful
head
,
that
particular
kind
of
dull
red
colour
in
his
cheeks
which
is
rather
stale
than
fresh
,
and
a
somewhat
uneasy
expression
about
his
coat
-
cuffs
,
as
if
they
were
in
his
confidence
,
and
had
reasons
for
being
anxious
to
hide
his
hands
.
In
the
little
he
said
,
he
was
a
pleasant
man
enough
;
plain
,
emphatic
about
public
and
private
confidence
,
and
tenacious
of
the
utmost
deference
being
shown
by
every
one
,
in
all
things
,
to
Society
.
In
this
same
Society
(
if
that
were
it
which
came
to
his
dinners
,
and
to
Mrs
Merdle
’
s
receptions
and
concerts
)
,
he
hardly
seemed
to
enjoy
himself
much
,
and
was
mostly
to
be
found
against
walls
and
behind
doors
.
Also
when
he
went
out
to
it
,
instead
of
its
coming
home
to
him
,
he
seemed
a
little
fatigued
,
and
upon
the
whole
rather
more
disposed
for
bed
;
but
he
was
always
cultivating
it
nevertheless
,
and
always
moving
in
it
—
and
always
laying
out
money
on
it
with
the
greatest
liberality
.
Mrs
Merdle
’
s
first
husband
had
been
a
colonel
,
under
whose
auspices
the
bosom
had
entered
into
competition
with
the
snows
of
North
America
,
and
had
come
off
at
little
disadvantage
in
point
of
whiteness
,
and
at
none
in
point
of
coldness
.
The
colonel
’
s
son
was
Mrs
Merdle
’
s
only
child
.
He
was
of
a
chuckle
-
headed
,
high
-
shouldered
make
,
with
a
general
appearance
of
being
,
not
so
much
a
young
man
as
a
swelled
boy
.
He
had
given
so
few
signs
of
reason
,
that
a
by
-
word
went
among
his
companions
that
his
brain
had
been
frozen
up
in
a
mighty
frost
which
prevailed
at
St
John
’
s
,
New
Brunswick
,
at
the
period
of
his
birth
there
,
and
had
never
thawed
from
that
hour
.
Another
by
-
word
represented
him
as
having
in
his
infancy
,
through
the
negligence
of
a
nurse
,
fallen
out
of
a
high
window
on
his
head
,
which
had
been
heard
by
responsible
witnesses
to
crack
.
It
is
probable
that
both
these
representations
were
of
ex
post
facto
origin
;
the
young
gentleman
(
whose
expressive
name
was
Sparkler
)
being
monomaniacal
in
offering
marriage
to
all
manner
of
undesirable
young
ladies
,
and
in
remarking
of
every
successive
young
lady
to
whom
he
tendered
a
matrimonial
proposal
that
she
was
‘
a
doosed
fine
gal
—
well
educated
too
—
with
no
biggodd
nonsense
about
her
.
’
A
son
-
in
-
law
with
these
limited
talents
,
might
have
been
a
clog
upon
another
man
;
but
Mr
Merdle
did
not
want
a
son
-
in
-
law
for
himself
;
he
wanted
a
son
-
in
-
law
for
Society
.
Mr
Sparkler
having
been
in
the
Guards
,
and
being
in
the
habit
of
frequenting
all
the
races
,
and
all
the
lounges
,
and
all
the
parties
,
and
being
well
known
,
Society
was
satisfied
with
its
son
-
in
-
law
.
This
happy
result
Mr
Merdle
would
have
considered
well
attained
,
though
Mr
Sparkler
had
been
a
more
expensive
article
.
And
he
did
not
get
Mr
Sparkler
by
any
means
cheap
for
Society
,
even
as
it
was
.
There
was
a
dinner
giving
in
the
Harley
Street
establishment
,
while
Little
Dorrit
was
stitching
at
her
father
’
s
new
shirts
by
his
side
that
night
;
and
there
were
magnates
from
the
Court
and
magnates
from
the
City
,
magnates
from
the
Commons
and
magnates
from
the
Lords
,
magnates
from
the
bench
and
magnates
from
the
bar
,
Bishop
magnates
,
Treasury
magnates
,
Horse
Guard
magnates
,
Admiralty
magnates
,
—
all
the
magnates
that
keep
us
going
,
and
sometimes
trip
us
up
.
‘
I
am
told
,
’
said
Bishop
magnate
to
Horse
Guards
,
‘
that
Mr
Merdle
has
made
another
enormous
hit
.
They
say
a
hundred
thousand
pounds
.
’
Horse
Guards
had
heard
two
.
Treasury
had
heard
three
.
Bar
,
handling
his
persuasive
double
eye
-
glass
,
was
by
no
means
clear
but
that
it
might
be
four
.
It
was
one
of
those
happy
strokes
of
calculation
and
combination
,
the
result
of
which
it
was
difficult
to
estimate
.
It
was
one
of
those
instances
of
a
comprehensive
grasp
,
associated
with
habitual
luck
and
characteristic
boldness
,
of
which
an
age
presented
us
but
few
.
But
here
was
Brother
Bellows
,
who
had
been
in
the
great
Bank
case
,
and
who
could
probably
tell
us
more
.
What
did
Brother
Bellows
put
this
new
success
at
?
