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Title: Our mutual friend
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896, ed
Subjects: Inheritance and succession Social classes Poor families Deception
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hatthe deuce is it all about ? If it aint stark staring impudence, whatdo you call it? Dont be warm. Noddy, Mrs. Boffin urged. Warm ! cried Mr. Boffin. Its enough to make a man smok-ing hot. I cant go anywhere without being Patronised. I dontwant to be Patronised. If I buy a ticket for a Flower Show, ora Music Show, or any sort of Show, and pay pretty heavy for it,why am I to be Patroned and Patronessed as if the Patrons andPatronesses treated me 1 If theres a good thing to be done, cantit be done on its own merits ? If theres a bad thing to be done,can it ever be Patroned and Patronessed right 1 Yet when a newInstitutions going to be built, it seems to me that the bricksand mortar aint made of half so much consequence as the Patronsand Patronesses; no, nor yet the objects. I Avish somebody wouldtell me whether other countries get Patronised to anything like theextent of this one ! And as to the Patrons anfl Patronesses them-selves, I wonder theyre not ashamed of themselves. They aint
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374 OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. Pills, or Hair-Washes, or Invigorating Nervous Essences, to bepuffed in that way ! Ha\dng delivered himself of these remarks, Mr. Boffin took atrot, according to his usual custom, and trotted back to the spotfrom which he had started. As to the letter, Rokesmith, said Mr. Boffin, youre as rightas a trivet. Give her the letter, make her take the letter, put it inher pocket by \iolence. She might fall sick. — You know youmight fall sick, said Mr. Boffin. Dont deny it, Mrs. Higden,in your obstinacy; you know you might. Old Betty laughed, and said that she would take the letter andbe thankful. Thats right! said Mr. Boffin. Come ! Thats sensible.And dont be thankful to us (for we never thought of it), but toMr. Rokesmith. The letter was written, and read to her, and given to her. Now, how do you feel ? said Mr. Boffin. Do you like it 1 The letter, sir 1 said Betty. Ay, its a beautiful letter ! No, no, no; not the letter, said Mr. Boffin. The idea.Are you sure youre

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