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CHAPTER 23. Machinery in Motion
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Mr Meagles bestirred himself with such prompt activity in the matter of the negotiation1 with Daniel Doyce which Clennam had entrusted2 to him, that he soon brought it into business train, and called on Clennam at nine o’clock one morning to make his report.
‘Doyce is highly gratified by your good opinion,’ he opened the business by saying, ‘and desires nothing so much as that you should examine the affairs of the Works for yourself, and entirely3 understand them. He has handed me the keys of all his books and papers—here they are jingling4 in this pocket—and the only charge he has given me is “Let Mr Clennam have the means of putting himself on a perfect equality with me as to knowing whatever I know. If it should come to nothing after all, he will respect my confidence. Unless I was sure of that to begin with, I should have nothing to do with him.” And there, you see,’ said Mr Meagles, ‘you have Daniel Doyce all over.’
‘A very honourable5 character.’
‘Oh, yes, to be sure. Not a doubt of it. Odd, but very honourable. Very odd though. Now, would you believe, Clennam,’ said Mr Meagles, with a hearty6 enjoyment7 of his friend’s eccentricity8, ‘that I had a whole morning in What’s-his-name Yard—’
‘Bleeding Heart?’
‘A whole morning in Bleeding Heart Yard, before I could induce him to pursue the subject at all?’
‘How was that?’
‘How was that, my friend? I no sooner mentioned your name in connection with it than he declared off.’
‘Declared off on my account?’
‘I no sooner mentioned your name, Clennam, than he said, “That will never do!” What did he mean by that? I asked him. No matter, Meagles; that would never do. Why would it never do? You’ll hardly believe it, Clennam,’ said Mr Meagles, laughing within himself, ‘but it came out that it would never do, because you and he, walking down to Twickenham together, had
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negotiation
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jingling
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investigation
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partnership
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bonnet
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apparition
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flora
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legacy
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bruised
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machinery
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vindictively
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perfectly
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hostility
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perplexed
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abhorrence
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rigid
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appendage
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hurled
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slippers
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lame
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pony
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embarked
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confidentially
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benevolent
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