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The
noble
Refrigerator
assented
;
but
added
that
if
William
Barnacle
and
Tudor
Stiltstalking
,
when
they
came
over
to
one
another
and
formed
their
ever
-
memorable
coalition
,
had
boldly
muzzled
the
newspapers
,
and
rendered
it
penal
for
any
Editor
-
person
to
presume
to
discuss
the
conduct
of
any
appointed
authority
abroad
or
at
home
,
he
thought
the
country
would
have
been
preserved
.
It
was
agreed
that
the
country
(
another
word
for
the
Barnacles
and
Stiltstalkings
)
wanted
preserving
,
but
how
it
came
to
want
preserving
was
not
so
clear
.
It
was
only
clear
that
the
question
was
all
about
John
Barnacle
,
Augustus
Stiltstalking
,
William
Barnacle
and
Tudor
Stiltstalking
,
Tom
,
Dick
,
or
Harry
Barnacle
or
Stiltstalking
,
because
there
was
nobody
else
but
mob
.
And
this
was
the
feature
of
the
conversation
which
impressed
Clennam
,
as
a
man
not
used
to
it
,
very
disagreeably
:
making
him
doubt
if
it
were
quite
right
to
sit
there
,
silently
hearing
a
great
nation
narrowed
to
such
little
bounds
.
Remembering
,
however
,
that
in
the
Parliamentary
debates
,
whether
on
the
life
of
that
nation
’
s
body
or
the
life
of
its
soul
,
the
question
was
usually
all
about
and
between
John
Barnacle
,
Augustus
Stiltstalking
,
William
Barnacle
and
Tudor
Stiltstalking
,
Tom
,
Dick
,
or
Harry
Barnacle
or
Stiltstalking
,
and
nobody
else
;
he
said
nothing
on
the
part
of
mob
,
bethinking
himself
that
mob
was
used
to
it
.
Mr
Henry
Gowan
seemed
to
have
a
malicious
pleasure
in
playing
off
the
three
talkers
against
each
other
,
and
in
seeing
Clennam
startled
by
what
they
said
.
Having
as
supreme
a
contempt
for
the
class
that
had
thrown
him
off
as
for
the
class
that
had
not
taken
him
on
,
he
had
no
personal
disquiet
in
anything
that
passed
.
His
healthy
state
of
mind
appeared
even
to
derive
a
gratification
from
Clennam
’
s
position
of
embarrassment
and
isolation
among
the
good
company
;
and
if
Clennam
had
been
in
that
condition
with
which
Nobody
was
incessantly
contending
,
he
would
have
suspected
it
,
and
would
have
struggled
with
the
suspicion
as
a
meanness
,
even
while
he
sat
at
the
table
.
In
the
course
of
a
couple
of
hours
the
noble
Refrigerator
,
at
no
time
less
than
a
hundred
years
behind
the
period
,
got
about
five
centuries
in
arrears
,
and
delivered
solemn
political
oracles
appropriate
to
that
epoch
.
He
finished
by
freezing
a
cup
of
tea
for
his
own
drinking
,
and
retiring
at
his
lowest
temperature
.
Then
Mrs
Gowan
,
who
had
been
accustomed
in
her
days
of
a
vacant
arm
-
chair
beside
her
to
which
to
summon
state
to
retain
her
devoted
slaves
,
one
by
one
,
for
short
audiences
as
marks
of
her
especial
favour
,
invited
Clennam
with
a
turn
of
her
fan
to
approach
the
presence
.
He
obeyed
,
and
took
the
tripod
recently
vacated
by
Lord
Lancaster
Stiltstalking
.
‘
Mr
Clennam
,
’
said
Mrs
Gowan
,
‘
apart
from
the
happiness
I
have
in
becoming
known
to
you
,
though
in
this
odiously
inconvenient
place
—
a
mere
barrack
—
there
is
a
subject
on
which
I
am
dying
to
speak
to
you
.
It
is
the
subject
in
connection
with
which
my
son
first
had
,
I
believe
,
the
pleasure
of
cultivating
your
acquaintance
.
’
Clennam
inclined
his
head
,
as
a
generally
suitable
reply
to
what
he
did
not
yet
quite
understand
.
‘
First
,
’
said
Mrs
Gowan
,
‘
now
,
is
she
really
pretty
?
’
In
nobody
’
s
difficulties
,
he
would
have
found
it
very
difficult
to
answer
;
very
difficult
indeed
to
smile
,
and
say
‘
Who
?
’
