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CHAPTER 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’
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While the waters of Venice and the ruins of Rome were sunning themselves for the pleasure of the Dorrit family, and were daily being sketched1 out of all earthly proportion, lineament, and likeness2, by travelling pencils innumerable, the firm of Doyce and Clennam hammered away in Bleeding Heart Yard, and the vigorous clink of iron upon iron was heard there through the working hours.
The younger partner had, by this time, brought the business into sound trim; and the elder, left free to follow his own ingenious devices, had done much to enhance the character of the factory. As an ingenious man, he had necessarily to encounter every discouragement that the ruling powers for a length of time had been able by any means to put in the way of this class of culprits; but that was only reasonable self-defence in the powers, since How to do it must obviously be regarded as the natural and mortal enemy of How not to do it. In this was to be found the basis of the wise system, by tooth and nail upheld by the Circumlocution5 Office, of warning every ingenious British subject to be ingenious at his peril6: of harassing7 him, obstructing8 him, inviting9 robbers (by making his remedy uncertain, and expensive) to plunder10 him, and at the best of confiscating11 his property after a short term of enjoyment12, as though invention were on a par4 with felony. The system had uniformly found great favour with the Barnacles, and that was only reasonable, too; for one who
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