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‘
Yes
,
’
returned
Dick
,
‘
certainly
.
That
is
if
somebody
must
—
but
upon
my
word
,
I
’
m
unwilling
that
anybody
should
.
Since
laws
were
made
for
every
degree
,
to
curb
vice
in
others
as
well
as
in
me
—
and
so
forth
you
know
—
doesn
’
t
it
strike
you
in
that
light
?
’
The
single
gentleman
smiled
as
if
the
light
in
which
Mr
Swiveller
had
put
the
question
were
not
the
clearest
in
the
world
,
and
proceeded
to
explain
that
they
contemplated
proceeding
by
stratagem
in
the
first
instance
;
and
that
their
design
was
to
endeavour
to
extort
a
confession
from
the
gentle
Sarah
.
‘
When
she
finds
how
much
we
know
,
and
how
we
know
it
,
’
he
said
,
‘
and
that
she
is
clearly
compromised
already
,
we
are
not
without
strong
hopes
that
we
may
be
enabled
through
her
means
to
punish
the
other
two
effectually
.
If
we
could
do
that
,
she
might
go
scot
-
free
for
aught
I
cared
.
’
Dick
received
this
project
in
anything
but
a
gracious
manner
,
representing
with
as
much
warmth
as
he
was
then
capable
of
showing
,
that
they
would
find
the
old
buck
(
meaning
Sarah
)
more
difficult
to
manage
than
Quilp
himself
—
that
,
for
any
tampering
,
terrifying
,
or
cajolery
,
she
was
a
very
unpromising
and
unyielding
subject
—
that
she
was
of
a
kind
of
brass
not
easily
melted
or
moulded
into
shape
—
in
short
,
that
they
were
no
match
for
her
,
and
would
be
signally
defeated
.
But
it
was
in
vain
to
urge
them
to
adopt
some
other
course
.
The
single
gentleman
has
been
described
as
explaining
their
joint
intentions
,
but
it
should
have
been
written
that
they
all
spoke
together
;
that
if
any
one
of
them
by
chance
held
his
peace
for
a
moment
,
he
stood
gasping
and
panting
for
an
opportunity
to
strike
in
again
:
in
a
word
,
that
they
had
reached
that
pitch
of
impatience
and
anxiety
where
men
can
neither
be
persuaded
nor
reasoned
with
;
and
that
it
would
have
been
as
easy
to
turn
the
most
impetuous
wind
that
ever
blew
,
as
to
prevail
on
them
to
reconsider
their
determination
.
So
,
after
telling
Mr
Swiveller
how
they
had
not
lost
sight
of
Kit
’
s
mother
and
the
children
;
how
they
had
never
once
even
lost
sight
of
Kit
himself
,
but
had
been
unremitting
in
their
endeavours
to
procure
a
mitigation
of
his
sentence
;
how
they
had
been
perfectly
distracted
between
the
strong
proofs
of
his
guilt
,
and
their
own
fading
hopes
of
his
innocence
;
and
how
he
,
Richard
Swiveller
,
might
keep
his
mind
at
rest
,
for
everything
should
be
happily
adjusted
between
that
time
and
night
;
—
after
telling
him
all
this
,
and
adding
a
great
many
kind
and
cordial
expressions
,
personal
to
himself
,
which
it
is
unnecessary
to
recite
,
Mr
Garland
,
the
notary
,
and
the
single
gentleman
,
took
their
leaves
at
a
very
critical
time
,
or
Richard
Swiveller
must
assuredly
have
been
driven
into
another
fever
,
whereof
the
results
might
have
been
fatal
.
Mr
Abel
remained
behind
,
very
often
looking
at
his
watch
and
at
the
room
door
,
until
Mr
Swiveller
was
roused
from
a
short
nap
,
by
the
setting
-
down
on
the
landing
-
place
outside
,
as
from
the
shoulders
of
a
porter
,
of
some
giant
load
,
which
seemed
to
shake
the
house
,
and
made
the
little
physic
bottles
on
the
mantel
-
shelf
ring
again
.
Directly
this
sound
reached
his
ears
,
Mr
Abel
started
up
,
and
hobbled
to
the
door
,
and
opened
it
;
and
behold
!
there
stood
a
strong
man
,
with
a
mighty
hamper
,
which
,
being
hauled
into
the
room
and
presently
unpacked
,
disgorged
such
treasures
as
tea
,
and
coffee
,
and
wine
,
and
rusks
,
and
oranges
,
and
grapes
,
and
fowls
ready
trussed
for
boiling
,
and
calves
’
-
foot
jelly
,
and
arrow
-
root
,
and
sago
,
and
other
delicate
restoratives
,
that
the
small
servant
,
who
had
never
thought
it
possible
that
such
things
could
be
,
except
in
shops
,
stood
rooted
to
the
spot
in
her
one
shoe
,
with
her
mouth
and
eyes
watering
in
unison
,
and
her
power
of
speech
quite
gone
.
But
,
not
so
Mr
Abel
;
or
the
strong
man
who
emptied
the
hamper
,
big
as
it
was
,
in
a
twinkling
;
and
not
so
the
nice
old
lady
,
who
appeared
so
suddenly
that
she
might
have
come
out
of
the
hamper
too
(
it
was
quite
large
enough
)
,
and
who
,
bustling
about
on
tiptoe
and
without
noise
—
now
here
,
now
there
,
now
everywhere
at
once
—
began
to
fill
out
the
jelly
in
tea
-
cups
,
and
to
make
chicken
broth
in
small
saucepans
,
and
to
peel
oranges
for
the
sick
man
and
to
cut
them
up
in
little
pieces
,
and
to
ply
the
small
servant
with
glasses
of
wine
and
choice
bits
of
everything
until
more
substantial
meat
could
be
prepared
for
her
refreshment
.
The
whole
of
which
appearances
were
so
unexpected
and
bewildering
,
that
Mr
Swiveller
,
when
he
had
taken
two
oranges
and
a
little
jelly
,
and
had
seen
the
strong
man
walk
off
with
the
empty
basket
,
plainly
leaving
all
that
abundance
for
his
use
and
benefit
,
was
fain
to
lie
down
and
fall
asleep
again
,
from
sheer
inability
to
entertain
such
wonders
in
his
mind
.
Meanwhile
,
the
single
gentleman
,
the
Notary
,
and
Mr
Garland
,
repaired
to
a
certain
coffee
-
house
,
and
from
that
place
indited
and
sent
a
letter
to
Miss
Sally
Brass
,
requesting
her
,
in
terms
mysterious
and
brief
,
to
favour
an
unknown
friend
who
wished
to
consult
her
,
with
her
company
there
,
as
speedily
as
possible
.
The
communication
performed
its
errand
so
well
,
that
within
ten
minutes
of
the
messenger
’
s
return
and
report
of
its
delivery
,
Miss
Brass
herself
was
announced
.
‘
Pray
ma
’
am
,
’
said
the
single
gentleman
,
whom
she
found
alone
in
the
room
,
‘
take
a
chair
.
’
