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Bar
was
a
sight
wondrous
to
behold
,
and
full
of
matter
,
when
,
jauntily
waving
his
double
eye
-
glass
by
its
ribbon
,
and
jauntily
drooping
to
an
Universe
of
Jurymen
,
he
,
in
the
most
accidental
manner
ever
seen
,
found
himself
at
Mr
Merdle
’
s
shoulder
,
and
embraced
that
opportunity
of
mentioning
a
little
point
to
him
,
on
which
he
particularly
wished
to
be
guided
by
the
light
of
his
practical
knowledge
.
(
Here
he
took
Mr
Merdle
’
s
arm
and
walked
him
gently
away
.
)
A
banker
,
whom
we
would
call
A
.
B
.
,
advanced
a
considerable
sum
of
money
,
which
we
would
call
fifteen
thousand
pounds
,
to
a
client
or
customer
of
his
,
whom
he
would
call
P
.
Q
.
(
Here
,
as
they
were
getting
towards
Lord
Decimus
,
he
held
Mr
Merdle
tight
.
)
As
a
security
for
the
repayment
of
this
advance
to
P
.
Q
.
whom
we
would
call
a
widow
lady
,
there
were
placed
in
A
.
B
.
‘
s
hands
the
title
-
deeds
of
a
freehold
estate
,
which
we
would
call
Blinkiter
Doddles
.
Now
,
the
point
was
this
.
A
limited
right
of
felling
and
lopping
in
the
woods
of
Blinkiter
Doddles
,
lay
in
the
son
of
P
.
Q
.
then
past
his
majority
,
and
whom
we
would
call
X
.
Y
.
—
but
really
this
was
too
bad
!
In
the
presence
of
Lord
Decimus
,
to
detain
the
host
with
chopping
our
dry
chaff
of
law
,
was
really
too
bad
!
Another
time
!
Bar
was
truly
repentant
,
and
would
not
say
another
syllable
.
Would
Bishop
favour
him
with
half
-
a
-
dozen
words
?
(
He
had
now
set
Mr
Merdle
down
on
a
couch
,
side
by
side
with
Lord
Decimus
,
and
to
it
they
must
go
,
now
or
never
.
)
And
now
the
rest
of
the
company
,
highly
excited
and
interested
,
always
excepting
Bishop
,
who
had
not
the
slightest
idea
that
anything
was
going
on
,
formed
in
one
group
round
the
fire
in
the
next
drawing
-
room
,
and
pretended
to
be
chatting
easily
on
the
infinite
variety
of
small
topics
,
while
everybody
’
s
thoughts
and
eyes
were
secretly
straying
towards
the
secluded
pair
.
The
Chorus
were
excessively
nervous
,
perhaps
as
labouring
under
the
dreadful
apprehension
that
some
good
thing
was
going
to
be
diverted
from
them
!
Bishop
alone
talked
steadily
and
evenly
.
He
conversed
with
the
great
Physician
on
that
relaxation
of
the
throat
with
which
young
curates
were
too
frequently
afflicted
,
and
on
the
means
of
lessening
the
great
prevalence
of
that
disorder
in
the
church
.
Physician
,
as
a
general
rule
,
was
of
opinion
that
the
best
way
to
avoid
it
was
to
know
how
to
read
,
before
you
made
a
profession
of
reading
.
Bishop
said
dubiously
,
did
he
really
think
so
?
And
Physician
said
,
decidedly
,
yes
he
did
.
Ferdinand
,
meanwhile
,
was
the
only
one
of
the
party
who
skirmished
on
the
outside
of
the
circle
;
he
kept
about
mid
-
way
between
it
and
the
two
,
as
if
some
sort
of
surgical
operation
were
being
performed
by
Lord
Decimus
on
Mr
Merdle
,
or
by
Mr
Merdle
on
Lord
Decimus
,
and
his
services
might
at
any
moment
be
required
as
Dresser
.
In
fact
,
within
a
quarter
of
an
hour
Lord
Decimus
called
to
him
‘
Ferdinand
!
’
and
he
went
,
and
took
his
place
in
the
conference
for
some
five
minutes
more
.
Then
a
half
-
suppressed
gasp
broke
out
among
the
Chorus
;
for
Lord
Decimus
rose
to
take
his
leave
.
Again
coached
up
by
Ferdinand
to
the
point
of
making
himself
popular
,
he
shook
hands
in
the
most
brilliant
manner
with
the
whole
company
,
and
even
said
to
Bar
,
‘
I
hope
you
were
not
bored
by
my
pears
?
’
To
which
Bar
retorted
,
‘
Eton
,
my
lord
,
or
Parliamentary
?
’
neatly
showing
that
he
had
mastered
the
joke
,
and
delicately
insinuating
that
he
could
never
forget
it
while
his
life
remained
.
All
the
grave
importance
that
was
buttoned
up
in
Mr
Tite
Barnacle
,
took
itself
away
next
;
and
Ferdinand
took
himself
away
next
,
to
the
opera
.
Some
of
the
rest
lingered
a
little
,
marrying
golden
liqueur
glasses
to
Buhl
tables
with
sticky
rings
;
on
the
desperate
chance
of
Mr
Merdle
’
s
saying
something
.
But
Merdle
,
as
usual
,
oozed
sluggishly
and
muddily
about
his
drawing
-
room
,
saying
never
a
word
.
In
a
day
or
two
it
was
announced
to
all
the
town
,
that
Edmund
Sparkler
,
Esquire
,
son
-
in
-
law
of
the
eminent
Mr
Merdle
of
worldwide
renown
,
was
made
one
of
the
Lords
of
the
Circumlocution
Office
;
and
proclamation
was
issued
,
to
all
true
believers
,
that
this
admirable
appointment
was
to
be
hailed
as
a
graceful
and
gracious
mark
of
homage
,
rendered
by
the
graceful
and
gracious
Decimus
,
to
that
commercial
interest
which
must
ever
in
a
great
commercial
country
—
and
all
the
rest
of
it
,
with
blast
of
trumpet
.
So
,
bolstered
by
this
mark
of
Government
homage
,
the
wonderful
Bank
and
all
the
other
wonderful
undertakings
went
on
and
went
up
;
and
gapers
came
to
Harley
Street
,
Cavendish
Square
,
only
to
look
at
the
house
where
the
golden
wonder
lived
And
when
they
saw
the
Chief
Butler
looking
out
at
the
hall
-
door
in
his
moments
of
condescension
,
the
gapers
said
how
rich
he
looked
,
and
wondered
how
much
money
he
had
in
the
wonderful
Bank
.
But
,
if
they
had
known
that
respectable
Nemesis
better
,
they
would
not
have
wondered
about
it
,
and
might
have
stated
the
amount
with
the
utmost
precision
.
That
it
is
at
least
as
difficult
to
stay
a
moral
infection
as
a
physical
one
;
that
such
a
disease
will
spread
with
the
malignity
and
rapidity
of
the
Plague
;
that
the
contagion
,
when
it
has
once
made
head
,
will
spare
no
pursuit
or
condition
,
but
will
lay
hold
on
people
in
the
soundest
health
,
and
become
developed
in
the
most
unlikely
constitutions
:
is
a
fact
as
firmly
established
by
experience
as
that
we
human
creatures
breathe
an
atmosphere
.
A
blessing
beyond
appreciation
would
be
conferred
upon
mankind
,
if
the
tainted
,
in
whose
weakness
or
wickedness
these
virulent
disorders
are
bred
,
could
be
instantly
seized
and
placed
in
close
confinement
(
not
to
say
summarily
smothered
)
before
the
poison
is
communicable
.
As
a
vast
fire
will
fill
the
air
to
a
great
distance
with
its
roar
,
so
the
sacred
flame
which
the
mighty
Barnacles
had
fanned
caused
the
air
to
resound
more
and
more
with
the
name
of
Merdle
.
It
was
deposited
on
every
lip
,
and
carried
into
every
ear
.
There
never
was
,
there
never
had
been
,
there
never
again
should
be
,
such
a
man
as
Mr
Merdle
.
Nobody
,
as
aforesaid
,
knew
what
he
had
done
;
but
everybody
knew
him
to
be
the
greatest
that
had
appeared
.
