. Bleak house . intended to express devotion to his service. He thenbegins to clear away the breakfast. Mr. George, after laughing cheerfully, and clapping him on theshoulder, assists in these arrangements, and helps to get the gal-lery into business order. That done, he takes a turn at the dumb-bells ; and afterwards weighing himself, and opining that he isgetting too fleshy, engages -with great gravity in solitary broad-sword practice. Meanwhile, Phil has fallen to work at his usualtable, where he screws and unscrews, and cleans, and files, andwhistles into small apertures, and blackens hims
. Bleak house . intended to express devotion to his service. He thenbegins to clear away the breakfast. Mr. George, after laughing cheerfully, and clapping him on theshoulder, assists in these arrangements, and helps to get the gal-lery into business order. That done, he takes a turn at the dumb-bells ; and afterwards weighing himself, and opining that he isgetting too fleshy, engages -with great gravity in solitary broad-sword practice. Meanwhile, Phil has fallen to work at his usualtable, where he screws and unscrews, and cleans, and files, andwhistles into small apertures, and blackens himself more and more,and seems to do and undo everything that can be done and undoneabout a gun. Master and man are at length disturbed by footsteps in the pas-sage, where they make an unusual sound, denoting the arrival ofunusual company. These steps, advancing nearer and nearer tothe gallery, bring into it a group, at first sight scarcely reconcilablewith any day in the year but the fifth of November. ,^ ,/^/tW^. 344 BLEAK HOUSE. It consists of a limp and ugly figure carried in a chair by twobearers, and attended by a lean female with a face like a pinchedmask, who might be expected immediately to recite the popularverses, commemorative of the time when they did contrive to blowOld England up alive, but for her keeping her lips tightly anddefiantly closed as the chair is put down. At which point, thefigure in it gasping, 0 Lord ! 0 dear me ! I am shaken ! adds, How de do, my dear friend, how de do 1 Mr. George thendescries, in the procession, the venerable Mr. Smallweed out for anairing, attended by his grand-daughter Judy as body-guard. Mr. George, my dear friend, says Grandfather Smallweed,removing his right arm from the neck of one of his bearers, whomhe has nearly throttled coming along, howdedo? Youre sur-prised to see me, my dear friend. I should hardly have been more sixrprised to see your friendin the city, returns Mr. George. I am very seldom out, pants Mr. Smallweed. I
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