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Under
the
latter
great
wrong
,
a
few
suffered
dreadfully
—
particularly
on
Sundays
,
when
they
had
for
some
time
expected
the
earth
to
open
and
swallow
the
public
up
;
but
which
desirable
event
had
not
yet
occurred
,
in
consequence
of
some
reprehensible
laxity
in
the
arrangements
of
the
Universe
.
Mrs
Gowan
’
s
door
was
attended
by
a
family
servant
of
several
years
’
standing
,
who
had
his
own
crow
to
pluck
with
the
public
concerning
a
situation
in
the
Post
-
Office
which
he
had
been
for
some
time
expecting
,
and
to
which
he
was
not
yet
appointed
.
He
perfectly
knew
that
the
public
could
never
have
got
him
in
,
but
he
grimly
gratified
himself
with
the
idea
that
the
public
kept
him
out
.
Under
the
influence
of
this
injury
(
and
perhaps
of
some
little
straitness
and
irregularity
in
the
matter
of
wages
)
,
he
had
grown
neglectful
of
his
person
and
morose
in
mind
;
and
now
beholding
in
Clennam
one
of
the
degraded
body
of
his
oppressors
,
received
him
with
ignominy
.
Mrs
Gowan
,
however
,
received
him
with
condescension
.
He
found
her
a
courtly
old
lady
,
formerly
a
Beauty
,
and
still
sufficiently
well
-
favoured
to
have
dispensed
with
the
powder
on
her
nose
and
a
certain
impossible
bloom
under
each
eye
.
She
was
a
little
lofty
with
him
;
so
was
another
old
lady
,
dark
-
browed
and
high
-
nosed
,
and
who
must
have
had
something
real
about
her
or
she
could
not
have
existed
,
but
it
was
certainly
not
her
hair
or
her
teeth
or
her
figure
or
her
complexion
;
so
was
a
grey
old
gentleman
of
dignified
and
sullen
appearance
;
both
of
whom
had
come
to
dinner
.
But
,
as
they
had
all
been
in
the
British
Embassy
way
in
sundry
parts
of
the
earth
,
and
as
a
British
Embassy
cannot
better
establish
a
character
with
the
Circumlocution
Office
than
by
treating
its
compatriots
with
illimitable
contempt
(
else
it
would
become
like
the
Embassies
of
other
countries
)
,
Clennam
felt
that
on
the
whole
they
let
him
off
lightly
.
The
dignified
old
gentleman
turned
out
to
be
Lord
Lancaster
Stiltstalking
,
who
had
been
maintained
by
the
Circumlocution
Office
for
many
years
as
a
representative
of
the
Britannic
Majesty
abroad
.
This
noble
Refrigerator
had
iced
several
European
courts
in
his
time
,
and
had
done
it
with
such
complete
success
that
the
very
name
of
Englishman
yet
struck
cold
to
the
stomachs
of
foreigners
who
had
the
distinguished
honour
of
remembering
him
at
a
distance
of
a
quarter
of
a
century
.
He
was
now
in
retirement
,
and
hence
(
in
a
ponderous
white
cravat
,
like
a
stiff
snow
-
drift
)
was
so
obliging
as
to
shade
the
dinner
.
There
was
a
whisper
of
the
pervading
Bohemian
character
in
the
nomadic
nature
of
the
service
and
its
curious
races
of
plates
and
dishes
;
but
the
noble
Refrigerator
,
infinitely
better
than
plate
or
porcelain
,
made
it
superb
.
He
shaded
the
dinner
,
cooled
the
wines
,
chilled
the
gravy
,
and
blighted
the
vegetables
.
There
was
only
one
other
person
in
the
room
:
a
microscopically
small
footboy
,
who
waited
on
the
malevolent
man
who
hadn
’
t
got
into
the
Post
-
Office
.
Even
this
youth
,
if
his
jacket
could
have
been
unbuttoned
and
his
heart
laid
bare
,
would
have
been
seen
,
as
a
distant
adherent
of
the
Barnacle
family
,
already
to
aspire
to
a
situation
under
Government
.
Mrs
Gowan
with
a
gentle
melancholy
upon
her
,
occasioned
by
her
son
’
s
being
reduced
to
court
the
swinish
public
as
a
follower
of
the
low
Arts
,
instead
of
asserting
his
birthright
and
putting
a
ring
through
its
nose
as
an
acknowledged
Barnacle
,
headed
the
conversation
at
dinner
on
the
evil
days
.
It
was
then
that
Clennam
learned
for
the
first
time
what
little
pivots
this
great
world
goes
round
upon
.
‘
If
John
Barnacle
,
’
said
Mrs
Gowan
,
after
the
degeneracy
of
the
times
had
been
fully
ascertained
,
‘
if
John
Barnacle
had
but
abandoned
his
most
unfortunate
idea
of
conciliating
the
mob
,
all
would
have
been
well
,
and
I
think
the
country
would
have
been
preserved
.
’
The
old
lady
with
the
high
nose
assented
;
but
added
that
if
Augustus
Stiltstalking
had
in
a
general
way
ordered
the
cavalry
out
with
instructions
to
charge
,
she
thought
the
country
would
have
been
preserved
.
