. Bleak house . , so easy tobe covered, so hard to be got out; and that the Roman, pointingfrom the ceiling, shall point, so long as dust and damp andspiders spare him, with far greater significance than he everhad in Mr. Tulkinghorns time, and with a deadly meaning. For,Mr. Tulkinghorns time is over for evermore ; and the Romanpointed at the murderous hand uplifted against his life, and pointedhelplessly at him, from night to morning, lying face downward onthe floor, shot through the heart. CHAPTER XLIX. » DUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP. / A GREAT annual occasion has come round in the establishmentof Mr.
. Bleak house . , so easy tobe covered, so hard to be got out; and that the Roman, pointingfrom the ceiling, shall point, so long as dust and damp andspiders spare him, with far greater significance than he everhad in Mr. Tulkinghorns time, and with a deadly meaning. For,Mr. Tulkinghorns time is over for evermore ; and the Romanpointed at the murderous hand uplifted against his life, and pointedhelplessly at him, from night to morning, lying face downward onthe floor, shot through the heart. CHAPTER XLIX. » DUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP. / A GREAT annual occasion has come round in the establishmentof Mr. Joseph Bagnet, otherwise Lignum Vitse, ex-artillerymanand present bassoon-player. An occasion of feasting and festival.,The celebration of a birthday in the family. It is not Mr. Bagnets birthday. Mr. Bagnet merely distin-jguishes that epoch in the musical instmment business, by kissing)the children with an extra smack before breakfast, smoking anadditional pipe after dinner, and wondering towards evening what. A NEW MEANING IN THE ROMAN. 618 BLEAK HOUSE. his poor old mother is thinking about it, — a subject of infinitespeculation, and rendered so by his mother having departed thislife, twenty years. Some men rarely revert to their father, butseem, in the bank-books of their remembrance, to have transferred alltheir stock of filial affection into their mothers name. Mr. Bagnetis one of these. Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits ofthe old girl, causes him usually to make the noun-substantive,Goodness, of the feminine gender. It is not the birthday of one of the three children. Those occa-sions are kept with some marks of distinction, but they rarelyoverleap the bounds of happy returns and a pudding. On youngWoolwichs last birthday, Mr. Bagnet certainly did, after observingupon his growth and general advancement, proceed, in a momentof profound reflection on the changes wrought by time, to examinehim in the catechism; accomplishing with extreme accuracy thequestion
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