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The
habit
,
too
,
of
seeking
some
sort
of
recompense
in
the
discontented
boast
of
being
disappointed
,
is
a
habit
fraught
with
degeneracy
.
A
certain
idle
carelessness
and
recklessness
of
consistency
soon
comes
of
it
.
To
bring
deserving
things
down
by
setting
undeserving
things
up
is
one
of
its
perverted
delights
;
and
there
is
no
playing
fast
and
loose
with
the
truth
,
in
any
game
,
without
growing
the
worse
for
it
.
In
his
expressed
opinions
of
all
performances
in
the
Art
of
painting
that
were
completely
destitute
of
merit
,
Gowan
was
the
most
liberal
fellow
on
earth
.
He
would
declare
such
a
man
to
have
more
power
in
his
little
finger
(
provided
he
had
none
)
,
than
such
another
had
(
provided
he
had
much
)
in
his
whole
mind
and
body
.
If
the
objection
were
taken
that
the
thing
commended
was
trash
,
he
would
reply
,
on
behalf
of
his
art
,
‘
My
good
fellow
,
what
do
we
all
turn
out
but
trash
?
I
turn
out
nothing
else
,
and
I
make
you
a
present
of
the
confession
.
’
To
make
a
vaunt
of
being
poor
was
another
of
the
incidents
of
his
splenetic
state
,
though
this
may
have
had
the
design
in
it
of
showing
that
he
ought
to
be
rich
;
just
as
he
would
publicly
laud
and
decry
the
Barnacles
,
lest
it
should
be
forgotten
that
he
belonged
to
the
family
.
Howbeit
,
these
two
subjects
were
very
often
on
his
lips
;
and
he
managed
them
so
well
that
he
might
have
praised
himself
by
the
month
together
,
and
not
have
made
himself
out
half
so
important
a
man
as
he
did
by
his
light
disparagement
of
his
claims
on
anybody
’
s
consideration
.
Out
of
this
same
airy
talk
of
his
,
it
always
soon
came
to
be
understood
,
wherever
he
and
his
wife
went
,
that
he
had
married
against
the
wishes
of
his
exalted
relations
,
and
had
had
much
ado
to
prevail
on
them
to
countenance
her
.
He
never
made
the
representation
,
on
the
contrary
seemed
to
laugh
the
idea
to
scorn
;
but
it
did
happen
that
,
with
all
his
pains
to
depreciate
himself
,
he
was
always
in
the
superior
position
.
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
.
When
they
had
first
met
this
gallant
gentleman
at
Geneva
,
Gowan
had
been
undecided
whether
to
kick
him
or
encourage
him
;
and
had
remained
for
about
four
-
and
-
twenty
hours
,
so
troubled
to
settle
the
point
to
his
satisfaction
,
that
he
had
thought
of
tossing
up
a
five
-
franc
piece
on
the
terms
,
‘
Tails
,
kick
;
heads
,
encourage
,
’
and
abiding
by
the
voice
of
the
oracle
.
It
chanced
,
however
,
that
his
wife
expressed
a
dislike
to
the
engaging
Blandois
,
and
that
the
balance
of
feeling
in
the
hotel
was
against
him
.
Upon
it
,
Gowan
resolved
to
encourage
him
.
Why
this
perversity
,
if
it
were
not
in
a
generous
fit
?
—
which
it
was
not
.
Why
should
Gowan
,
very
much
the
superior
of
Blandois
of
Paris
,
and
very
well
able
to
pull
that
prepossessing
gentleman
to
pieces
and
find
out
the
stuff
he
was
made
of
,
take
up
with
such
a
man
?
In
the
first
place
,
he
opposed
the
first
separate
wish
he
observed
in
his
wife
,
because
her
father
had
paid
his
debts
and
it
was
desirable
to
take
an
early
opportunity
of
asserting
his
independence
.
In
the
second
place
,
he
opposed
the
prevalent
feeling
,
because
with
many
capacities
of
being
otherwise
,
he
was
an
ill
-
conditioned
man
.
He
found
a
pleasure
in
declaring
that
a
courtier
with
the
refined
manners
of
Blandois
ought
to
rise
to
the
greatest
distinction
in
any
polished
country
.
He
found
a
pleasure
in
setting
up
Blandois
as
the
type
of
elegance
,
and
making
him
a
satire
upon
others
who
piqued
themselves
on
personal
graces
.
He
seriously
protested
that
the
bow
of
Blandois
was
perfect
,
that
the
address
of
Blandois
was
irresistible
,
and
that
the
picturesque
ease
of
Blandois
would
be
cheaply
purchased
(
if
it
were
not
a
gift
,
and
unpurchasable
)
for
a
hundred
thousand
francs
.
That
exaggeration
in
the
manner
of
the
man
which
has
been
noticed
as
appertaining
to
him
and
to
every
such
man
,
whatever
his
original
breeding
,
as
certainly
as
the
sun
belongs
to
this
system
,
was
acceptable
to
Gowan
as
a
caricature
,
which
he
found
it
a
humorous
resource
to
have
at
hand
for
the
ridiculing
of
numbers
of
people
who
necessarily
did
more
or
less
of
what
Blandois
overdid
.
Thus
he
had
taken
up
with
him
;
and
thus
,
negligently
strengthening
these
inclinations
with
habit
,
and
idly
deriving
some
amusement
from
his
talk
,
he
had
glided
into
a
way
of
having
him
for
a
companion
.
This
,
though
he
supposed
him
to
live
by
his
wits
at
play
-
tables
and
the
like
;
though
he
suspected
him
to
be
a
coward
,
while
he
himself
was
daring
and
courageous
;
though
he
thoroughly
knew
him
to
be
disliked
by
Minnie
;
and
though
he
cared
so
little
for
him
,
after
all
,
that
if
he
had
given
her
any
tangible
personal
cause
to
regard
him
with
aversion
,
he
would
have
had
no
compunction
whatever
in
flinging
him
out
of
the
highest
window
in
Venice
into
the
deepest
water
of
the
city
.
Little
Dorrit
would
have
been
glad
to
make
her
visit
to
Mrs
Gowan
,
alone
;
but
as
Fanny
,
who
had
not
yet
recovered
from
her
Uncle
’
s
protest
,
though
it
was
four
-
and
-
twenty
hours
of
age
,
pressingly
offered
her
company
,
the
two
sisters
stepped
together
into
one
of
the
gondolas
under
Mr
Dorrit
’
s
window
,
and
,
with
the
courier
in
attendance
,
were
taken
in
high
state
to
Mrs
Gowan
’
s
lodging
.
In
truth
,
their
state
was
rather
too
high
for
the
lodging
,
which
was
,
as
Fanny
complained
,
‘
fearfully
out
of
the
way
,
’
and
which
took
them
through
a
complexity
of
narrow
streets
of
water
,
which
the
same
lady
disparaged
as
‘
mere
ditches
.
’
