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‘
The
usual
thing
!
’
observed
Doyce
.
‘
I
must
not
make
a
martyr
of
myself
,
when
I
am
one
of
so
large
a
company
.
’
‘
Relinquish
it
,
or
begin
it
all
over
again
?
’
mused
Clennam
.
‘
That
was
exactly
the
long
and
the
short
of
it
,
’
said
Doyce
.
‘
Then
,
my
friend
,
’
cried
Clennam
,
starting
up
and
taking
his
work
-
roughened
hand
,
‘
it
shall
be
begun
all
over
again
!
’
Doyce
looked
alarmed
,
and
replied
in
a
hurry
—
for
him
,
‘
No
,
no
.
Better
put
it
by
.
Far
better
put
it
by
.
It
will
be
heard
of
,
one
day
.
I
can
put
it
by
.
You
forget
,
my
good
Clennam
;
I
have
put
it
by
.
It
’
s
all
at
an
end
.
’
‘
Yes
,
Doyce
,
’
returned
Clennam
,
‘
at
an
end
as
far
as
your
efforts
and
rebuffs
are
concerned
,
I
admit
,
but
not
as
far
as
mine
are
.
I
am
younger
than
you
:
I
have
only
once
set
foot
in
that
precious
office
,
and
I
am
fresh
game
for
them
.
Come
!
I
’
ll
try
them
.
You
shall
do
exactly
as
you
have
been
doing
since
we
have
been
together
.
I
will
add
(
as
I
easily
can
)
to
what
I
have
been
doing
,
the
attempt
to
get
public
justice
done
to
you
;
and
,
unless
I
have
some
success
to
report
,
you
shall
hear
no
more
of
it
.
’
Daniel
Doyce
was
still
reluctant
to
consent
,
and
again
and
again
urged
that
they
had
better
put
it
by
.
But
it
was
natural
that
he
should
gradually
allow
himself
to
be
over
-
persuaded
by
Clennam
,
and
should
yield
.
Yield
he
did
.
So
Arthur
resumed
the
long
and
hopeless
labour
of
striving
to
make
way
with
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
The
waiting
-
rooms
of
that
Department
soon
began
to
be
familiar
with
his
presence
,
and
he
was
generally
ushered
into
them
by
its
janitors
much
as
a
pickpocket
might
be
shown
into
a
police
-
office
;
the
principal
difference
being
that
the
object
of
the
latter
class
of
public
business
is
to
keep
the
pickpocket
,
while
the
Circumlocution
object
was
to
get
rid
of
Clennam
.
However
,
he
was
resolved
to
stick
to
the
Great
Department
;
and
so
the
work
of
form
-
filling
,
corresponding
,
minuting
,
memorandum
-
making
,
signing
,
counter
-
signing
,
counter
-
counter
-
signing
,
referring
backwards
and
forwards
,
and
referring
sideways
,
crosswise
,
and
zig
-
zag
,
recommenced
.
Here
arises
a
feature
of
the
Circumlocution
Office
,
not
previously
mentioned
in
the
present
record
.
When
that
admirable
Department
got
into
trouble
,
and
was
,
by
some
infuriated
members
of
Parliament
whom
the
smaller
Barnacles
almost
suspected
of
labouring
under
diabolic
possession
,
attacked
on
the
merits
of
no
individual
case
,
but
as
an
Institution
wholly
abominable
and
Bedlamite
;
then
the
noble
or
right
honourable
Barnacle
who
represented
it
in
the
House
,
would
smite
that
member
and
cleave
him
asunder
,
with
a
statement
of
the
quantity
of
business
(
for
the
prevention
of
business
)
done
by
the
Circumlocution
Office
.
Then
would
that
noble
or
right
honourable
Barnacle
hold
in
his
hand
a
paper
containing
a
few
figures
,
to
which
,
with
the
permission
of
the
House
,
he
would
entreat
its
attention
.
Then
would
the
inferior
Barnacles
exclaim
,
obeying
orders
,
‘
Hear
,
Hear
,
Hear
!
’
and
‘
Read
!
’
Then
would
the
noble
or
right
honourable
Barnacle
perceive
,
sir
,
from
this
little
document
,
which
he
thought
might
carry
conviction
even
to
the
perversest
mind
(
Derisive
laughter
and
cheering
from
the
Barnacle
fry
)
,
that
within
the
short
compass
of
the
last
financial
half
-
year
,
this
much
-
maligned
Department
(
Cheers
)
had
written
and
received
fifteen
thousand
letters
(
Loud
cheers
)
,
had
written
twenty
-
four
thousand
minutes
(
Louder
cheers
)
,
and
thirty
-
two
thousand
five
hundred
and
seventeen
memoranda
(
Vehement
cheering
)
.
Nay
,
an
ingenious
gentleman
connected
with
the
Department
,
and
himself
a
valuable
public
servant
,
had
done
him
the
favour
to
make
a
curious
calculation
of
the
amount
of
stationery
consumed
in
it
during
the
same
period
.
