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Long
after
Bar
got
made
Attorney
-
General
,
this
was
told
of
him
as
a
master
-
stroke
.
Lord
Decimus
had
a
reminiscence
about
a
pear
-
tree
formerly
growing
in
a
garden
near
the
back
of
his
dame
’
s
house
at
Eton
,
upon
which
pear
-
tree
the
only
joke
of
his
life
perennially
bloomed
.
It
was
a
joke
of
a
compact
and
portable
nature
,
turning
on
the
difference
between
Eton
pears
and
Parliamentary
pairs
;
but
it
was
a
joke
,
a
refined
relish
of
which
would
seem
to
have
appeared
to
Lord
Decimus
impossible
to
be
had
without
a
thorough
and
intimate
acquaintance
with
the
tree
.
Therefore
,
the
story
at
first
had
no
idea
of
such
a
tree
,
sir
,
then
gradually
found
it
in
winter
,
carried
it
through
the
changing
season
,
saw
it
bud
,
saw
it
blossom
,
saw
it
bear
fruit
,
saw
the
fruit
ripen
;
in
short
,
cultivated
the
tree
in
that
diligent
and
minute
manner
before
it
got
out
of
the
bed
-
room
window
to
steal
the
fruit
,
that
many
thanks
had
been
offered
up
by
belated
listeners
for
the
trees
having
been
planted
and
grafted
prior
to
Lord
Decimus
’
s
time
.
Bar
’
s
interest
in
apples
was
so
overtopped
by
the
wrapt
suspense
in
which
he
pursued
the
changes
of
these
pears
,
from
the
moment
when
Lord
Decimus
solemnly
opened
with
‘
Your
mentioning
pears
recalls
to
my
remembrance
a
pear
-
tree
,
’
down
to
the
rich
conclusion
,
‘
And
so
we
pass
,
through
the
various
changes
of
life
,
from
Eton
pears
to
Parliamentary
pairs
,
’
that
he
had
to
go
down
-
stairs
with
Lord
Decimus
,
and
even
then
to
be
seated
next
to
him
at
table
in
order
that
he
might
hear
the
anecdote
out
.
By
that
time
,
Bar
felt
that
he
had
secured
the
Foreman
,
and
might
go
to
dinner
with
a
good
appetite
.
It
was
a
dinner
to
provoke
an
appetite
,
though
he
had
not
had
one
.
The
rarest
dishes
,
sumptuously
cooked
and
sumptuously
served
;
the
choicest
fruits
;
the
most
exquisite
wines
;
marvels
of
workmanship
in
gold
and
silver
,
china
and
glass
;
innumerable
things
delicious
to
the
senses
of
taste
,
smell
,
and
sight
,
were
insinuated
into
its
composition
.
O
,
what
a
wonderful
man
this
Merdle
,
what
a
great
man
,
what
a
master
man
,
how
blessedly
and
enviably
endowed
—
in
one
word
,
what
a
rich
man
!
He
took
his
usual
poor
eighteenpennyworth
of
food
in
his
usual
indigestive
way
,
and
had
as
little
to
say
for
himself
as
ever
a
wonderful
man
had
.
Fortunately
Lord
Decimus
was
one
of
those
sublimities
who
have
no
occasion
to
be
talked
to
,
for
they
can
be
at
any
time
sufficiently
occupied
with
the
contemplation
of
their
own
greatness
.
This
enabled
the
bashful
young
Member
to
keep
his
eyes
open
long
enough
at
a
time
to
see
his
dinner
.
But
,
whenever
Lord
Decimus
spoke
,
he
shut
them
again
.
The
agreeable
young
Barnacle
,
and
Bar
,
were
the
talkers
of
the
party
.
Bishop
would
have
been
exceedingly
agreeable
also
,
but
that
his
innocence
stood
in
his
way
.
He
was
so
soon
left
behind
.
When
there
was
any
little
hint
of
anything
being
in
the
wind
,
he
got
lost
directly
.
Worldly
affairs
were
too
much
for
him
;
he
couldn
’
t
make
them
out
at
all
.
This
was
observable
when
Bar
said
,
incidentally
,
that
he
was
happy
to
have
heard
that
we
were
soon
to
have
the
advantage
of
enlisting
on
the
good
side
,
the
sound
and
plain
sagacity
—
not
demonstrative
or
ostentatious
,
but
thoroughly
sound
and
practical
—
of
our
friend
Mr
Sparkler
.
Ferdinand
Barnacle
laughed
,
and
said
oh
yes
,
he
believed
so
.
A
vote
was
a
vote
,
and
always
acceptable
.
Bar
was
sorry
to
miss
our
good
friend
Mr
Sparkler
to
-
day
,
Mr
Merdle
.
‘
He
is
away
with
Mrs
Merdle
,
’
returned
that
gentleman
,
slowly
coming
out
of
a
long
abstraction
,
in
the
course
of
which
he
had
been
fitting
a
tablespoon
up
his
sleeve
.
