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‘
Thank
God
!
’
said
Clennam
to
himself
.
‘
Now
show
me
.
’
‘
You
are
to
understand
’
—
snorted
Pancks
,
feverishly
unfolding
papers
,
and
speaking
in
short
high
-
pressure
blasts
of
sentences
,
‘
Where
’
s
the
Pedigree
?
Where
’
s
Schedule
number
four
,
Mr
Rugg
?
Oh
!
all
right
!
Here
we
are
.
—
You
are
to
understand
that
we
are
this
very
day
virtually
complete
.
We
shan
’
t
be
legally
for
a
day
or
two
.
Call
it
at
the
outside
a
week
.
We
’
ve
been
at
it
night
and
day
for
I
don
’
t
know
how
long
.
Mr
Rugg
,
you
know
how
long
?
Never
mind
.
Don
’
t
say
.
You
’
ll
only
confuse
me
.
You
shall
tell
her
,
Mr
Clennam
.
Not
till
we
give
you
leave
.
Where
’
s
that
rough
total
,
Mr
Rugg
?
Oh
!
Here
we
are
!
There
sir
!
That
’
s
what
you
’
ll
have
to
break
to
her
.
That
man
’
s
your
Father
of
the
Marshalsea
!
’
Resigning
herself
to
inevitable
fate
by
making
the
best
of
those
people
,
the
Miggleses
,
and
submitting
her
philosophy
to
the
draught
upon
it
,
of
which
she
had
foreseen
the
likelihood
in
her
interview
with
Arthur
,
Mrs
Gowan
handsomely
resolved
not
to
oppose
her
son
’
s
marriage
.
In
her
progress
to
,
and
happy
arrival
at
,
this
resolution
,
she
was
possibly
influenced
,
not
only
by
her
maternal
affections
but
by
three
politic
considerations
.
Of
these
,
the
first
may
have
been
that
her
son
had
never
signified
the
smallest
intention
to
ask
her
consent
,
or
any
mistrust
of
his
ability
to
dispense
with
it
;
the
second
,
that
the
pension
bestowed
upon
her
by
a
grateful
country
(
and
a
Barnacle
)
would
be
freed
from
any
little
filial
inroads
,
when
her
Henry
should
be
married
to
the
darling
only
child
of
a
man
in
very
easy
circumstances
;
the
third
,
that
Henry
’
s
debts
must
clearly
be
paid
down
upon
the
altar
-
railing
by
his
father
-
in
-
law
.
When
,
to
these
three
-
fold
points
of
prudence
there
is
added
the
fact
that
Mrs
Gowan
yielded
her
consent
the
moment
she
knew
of
Mr
Meagles
having
yielded
his
,
and
that
Mr
Meagles
’
s
objection
to
the
marriage
had
been
the
sole
obstacle
in
its
way
all
along
,
it
becomes
the
height
of
probability
that
the
relict
of
the
deceased
Commissioner
of
nothing
particular
,
turned
these
ideas
in
her
sagacious
mind
.
Among
her
connections
and
acquaintances
,
however
,
she
maintained
her
individual
dignity
and
the
dignity
of
the
blood
of
the
Barnacles
,
by
diligently
nursing
the
pretence
that
it
was
a
most
unfortunate
business
;
that
she
was
sadly
cut
up
by
it
;
that
this
was
a
perfect
fascination
under
which
Henry
laboured
;
that
she
had
opposed
it
for
a
long
time
,
but
what
could
a
mother
do
;
and
the
like
.
She
had
already
called
Arthur
Clennam
to
bear
witness
to
this
fable
,
as
a
friend
of
the
Meagles
family
;
and
she
followed
up
the
move
by
now
impounding
the
family
itself
for
the
same
purpose
.
In
the
first
interview
she
accorded
to
Mr
Meagles
,
she
slided
herself
into
the
position
of
disconsolately
but
gracefully
yielding
to
irresistible
pressure
.
With
the
utmost
politeness
and
good
-
breeding
,
she
feigned
that
it
was
she
—
not
he
—
who
had
made
the
difficulty
,
and
who
at
length
gave
way
;
and
that
the
sacrifice
was
hers
—
not
his
.
The
same
feint
,
with
the
same
polite
dexterity
,
she
foisted
on
Mrs
Meagles
,
as
a
conjuror
might
have
forced
a
card
on
that
innocent
lady
;
and
,
when
her
future
daughter
-
in
-
law
was
presented
to
her
by
her
son
,
she
said
on
embracing
her
,
‘
My
dear
,
what
have
you
done
to
Henry
that
has
bewitched
him
so
!
’
at
the
same
time
allowing
a
few
tears
to
carry
before
them
,
in
little
pills
,
the
cosmetic
powder
on
her
nose
;
as
a
delicate
but
touching
signal
that
she
suffered
much
inwardly
for
the
show
of
composure
with
which
she
bore
her
misfortune
.
Among
the
friends
of
Mrs
Gowan
(
who
piqued
herself
at
once
on
being
Society
,
and
on
maintaining
intimate
and
easy
relations
with
that
Power
)
,
Mrs
Merdle
occupied
a
front
row
.
True
,
the
Hampton
Court
Bohemians
,
without
exception
,
turned
up
their
noses
at
Merdle
as
an
upstart
;
but
they
turned
them
down
again
,
by
falling
flat
on
their
faces
to
worship
his
wealth
.
In
which
compensating
adjustment
of
their
noses
,
they
were
pretty
much
like
Treasury
,
Bar
,
and
Bishop
,
and
all
the
rest
of
them
.
To
Mrs
Merdle
,
Mrs
Gowan
repaired
on
a
visit
of
self
-
condolence
,
after
having
given
the
gracious
consent
aforesaid
.
She
drove
into
town
for
the
purpose
in
a
one
-
horse
carriage
irreverently
called
at
that
period
of
English
history
,
a
pill
-
box
.
It
belonged
to
a
job
-
master
in
a
small
way
,
who
drove
it
himself
,
and
who
jobbed
it
by
the
day
,
or
hour
,
to
most
of
the
old
ladies
in
Hampton
Court
Palace
;
but
it
was
a
point
of
ceremony
,
in
that
encampment
,
that
the
whole
equipage
should
be
tacitly
regarded
as
the
private
property
of
the
jobber
for
the
time
being
,
and
that
the
job
-
master
should
betray
personal
knowledge
of
nobody
but
the
jobber
in
possession
.
So
the
Circumlocution
Barnacles
,
who
were
the
largest
job
-
masters
in
the
universe
,
always
pretended
to
know
of
no
other
job
but
the
job
immediately
in
hand
.
Mrs
Merdle
was
at
home
,
and
was
in
her
nest
of
crimson
and
gold
,
with
the
parrot
on
a
neighbouring
stem
watching
her
with
his
head
on
one
side
,
as
if
he
took
her
for
another
splendid
parrot
of
a
larger
species
.
To
whom
entered
Mrs
Gowan
,
with
her
favourite
green
fan
,
which
softened
the
light
on
the
spots
of
bloom
.
‘
My
dear
soul
,
’
said
Mrs
Gowan
,
tapping
the
back
of
her
friend
’
s
hand
with
this
fan
after
a
little
indifferent
conversation
,
‘
you
are
my
only
comfort
.
