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With
these
comforting
remarks
,
Mr
Rugg
seated
himself
on
an
office
-
stool
at
the
desk
and
proceeded
to
business
.
‘
Now
,
Mr
Clennam
,
by
your
leave
,
let
us
go
into
the
matter
.
Let
us
see
the
state
of
the
case
.
The
question
is
simple
.
The
question
is
the
usual
plain
,
straightforward
,
common
-
sense
question
.
What
can
we
do
for
ourself
?
What
can
we
do
for
ourself
?
’
‘
This
is
not
the
question
with
me
,
Mr
Rugg
,
’
said
Arthur
.
‘
You
mistake
it
in
the
beginning
.
It
is
,
what
can
I
do
for
my
partner
,
how
can
I
best
make
reparation
to
him
?
’
‘
I
am
afraid
,
sir
,
do
you
know
,
’
argued
Mr
Rugg
persuasively
,
‘
that
you
are
still
allowing
your
feeling
to
be
worked
upon
.
I
don
’
t
like
the
term
“
reparation
,
”
sir
,
except
as
a
lever
in
the
hands
of
counsel
.
Will
you
excuse
my
saying
that
I
feel
it
my
duty
to
offer
you
the
caution
,
that
you
really
must
not
allow
your
feelings
to
be
worked
upon
?
’
‘
Mr
Rugg
,
’
said
Clennam
,
nerving
himself
to
go
through
with
what
he
had
resolved
upon
,
and
surprising
that
gentleman
by
appearing
,
in
his
despondency
,
to
have
a
settled
determination
of
purpose
;
‘
you
give
me
the
impression
that
you
will
not
be
much
disposed
to
adopt
the
course
I
have
made
up
my
mind
to
take
.
If
your
disapproval
of
it
should
render
you
unwilling
to
discharge
such
business
as
it
necessitates
,
I
am
sorry
for
it
,
and
must
seek
other
aid
.
But
I
will
represent
to
you
at
once
,
that
to
argue
against
it
with
me
is
useless
.
’
‘
Good
,
sir
,
’
answered
Mr
Rugg
,
shrugging
his
shoulders
.
‘
Good
,
sir
.
Since
the
business
is
to
be
done
by
some
hands
,
let
it
be
done
by
mine
.
Such
was
my
principle
in
the
case
of
Rugg
and
Bawkins
.
Such
is
my
principle
in
most
cases
.
’
Clennam
then
proceeded
to
state
to
Mr
Rugg
his
fixed
resolution
.
He
told
Mr
Rugg
that
his
partner
was
a
man
of
great
simplicity
and
integrity
,
and
that
in
all
he
meant
to
do
,
he
was
guided
above
all
things
by
a
knowledge
of
his
partner
’
s
character
,
and
a
respect
for
his
feelings
.
He
explained
that
his
partner
was
then
absent
on
an
enterprise
of
importance
,
and
that
it
particularly
behoved
himself
publicly
to
accept
the
blame
of
what
he
had
rashly
done
,
and
publicly
to
exonerate
his
partner
from
all
participation
in
the
responsibility
of
it
,
lest
the
successful
conduct
of
that
enterprise
should
be
endangered
by
the
slightest
suspicion
wrongly
attaching
to
his
partner
’
s
honour
and
credit
in
another
country
.
He
told
Mr
Rugg
that
to
clear
his
partner
morally
,
to
the
fullest
extent
,
and
publicly
and
unreservedly
to
declare
that
he
,
Arthur
Clennam
,
of
that
Firm
,
had
of
his
own
sole
act
,
and
even
expressly
against
his
partner
’
s
caution
,
embarked
its
resources
in
the
swindles
that
had
lately
perished
,
was
the
only
real
atonement
within
his
power
;
was
a
better
atonement
to
the
particular
man
than
it
would
be
to
many
men
;
and
was
therefore
the
atonement
he
had
first
to
make
.
With
this
view
,
his
intention
was
to
print
a
declaration
to
the
foregoing
effect
,
which
he
had
already
drawn
up
;
and
,
besides
circulating
it
among
all
who
had
dealings
with
the
House
,
to
advertise
it
in
the
public
papers
.
Concurrently
with
this
measure
(
the
description
of
which
cost
Mr
Rugg
innumerable
wry
faces
and
great
uneasiness
in
his
limbs
)
,
he
would
address
a
letter
to
all
the
creditors
,
exonerating
his
partner
in
a
solemn
manner
,
informing
them
of
the
stoppage
of
the
House
until
their
pleasure
could
be
known
and
his
partner
communicated
with
,
and
humbly
submitting
himself
to
their
direction
.
If
,
through
their
consideration
for
his
partner
’
s
innocence
,
the
affairs
could
ever
be
got
into
such
train
as
that
the
business
could
be
profitably
resumed
,
and
its
present
downfall
overcome
,
then
his
own
share
in
it
should
revert
to
his
partner
,
as
the
only
reparation
he
could
make
to
him
in
money
value
for
the
distress
and
loss
he
had
unhappily
brought
upon
him
,
and
he
himself
,
at
as
small
a
salary
as
he
could
live
upon
,
would
ask
to
be
allowed
to
serve
the
business
as
a
faithful
clerk
.
Though
Mr
Rugg
saw
plainly
there
was
no
preventing
this
from
being
done
,
still
the
wryness
of
his
face
and
the
uneasiness
of
his
limbs
so
sorely
required
the
propitiation
of
a
Protest
,
that
he
made
one
.
‘
I
offer
no
objection
,
sir
,
’
said
he
,
‘
I
argue
no
point
with
you
.
I
will
carry
out
your
views
,
sir
;
but
,
under
protest
.
’
Mr
Rugg
then
stated
,
not
without
prolixity
,
the
heads
of
his
protest
.
These
were
,
in
effect
,
because
the
whole
town
,
or
he
might
say
the
whole
country
,
was
in
the
first
madness
of
the
late
discovery
,
and
the
resentment
against
the
victims
would
be
very
strong
:
those
who
had
not
been
deluded
being
certain
to
wax
exceedingly
wroth
with
them
for
not
having
been
as
wise
as
they
were
:
and
those
who
had
been
deluded
being
certain
to
find
excuses
and
reasons
for
themselves
,
of
which
they
were
equally
certain
to
see
that
other
sufferers
were
wholly
devoid
:
not
to
mention
the
great
probability
of
every
individual
sufferer
persuading
himself
,
to
his
violent
indignation
,
that
but
for
the
example
of
all
the
other
sufferers
he
never
would
have
put
himself
in
the
way
of
suffering
.
Because
such
a
declaration
as
Clennam
’
s
,
made
at
such
a
time
,
would
certainly
draw
down
upon
him
a
storm
of
animosity
,
rendering
it
impossible
to
calculate
on
forbearance
in
the
creditors
,
or
on
unanimity
among
them
;
and
exposing
him
a
solitary
target
to
a
straggling
cross
-
fire
,
which
might
bring
him
down
from
half
-
a
-
dozen
quarters
at
once
.
